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    "title": "Copy of a Memorandum from the Senate Report 5013",
    "description": "This item is a memorandum regarding the distinction between personal wardship and property wardship with regards to the Act of March 3, 1901(31 Stat. 1058).",
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    "ocrText": "-3-\nline of many decisions, the last of which is United States y.\nRickert (188 U. S., 431, 436). The question of discharge from\nwardship, and the degree of emancipation of the ward, is a\npolitical question, within the soledetermination of Congress\nand not subject to judicial review. It is the sum and sub-\nstance of a great number of decisions of the Supreme Court on\nthe question of Indian rights and the relations of the Indian\nto the Government of the United States that the power of Con-\ngress is \"plenary, and its fiat the final definition of right,\nnot questionable or reviewable by the judiciary.\nIn granting political emancipation and making the\nmembers of the Five Civilized Tribes citizens of the United\nStates Congress did not fully discharge him from wardship as\nto control and alienation of his property, as is evident, not\nonly by subsequent legislation, but by the act of March 1,\n1901 (31 Stat., 861), ratifying an agreement with the Creek\nNation making restrictions on control and alienation of\nallotted lands, and by act of the same day on which the citizen-\nship bill was approved, to wit, March 3, 1901 (31 Stat. ,\n1077), requiring approval of the tribal legislative acts\nby the President of the United States, depriving the tribes\nof control of appropriation of their tribal moneys.\nThe subsegment acts of Congress indicative of this\nreservation, control, and wardship over property interests and\nalienation of the Indian of his property, individual and tribal,\nare the following:\nJune 30, 1902 (32 Stat., 500), ratifying agreement\nwith Creeks, supplemental to agreement ratified by act of\nMarch 1, 1901 (30 Stat. 861); July 1, 1902 (32 Stat., 716),\nrelating to the Cherokees and ratified by vote of the nation;"
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