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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-\nJuly 1, 1902 (32 Stat. 641), ratifying agreement. with the\nChoctaws and Chickasaws; April 21, 1904 (32 Stat. , 189),\nproviding for removal of restrictions upon alienation and\ncontaining provisions intended to carry out provisions of\nformer acts based upon agreements with the various tribes;\nMarch 3, 1905 (33 Stat.; 1048), making appropriations to carry\ninto effect provisions of former acts; April 26, 1906 (34\nStat., 137), containing provisions neceasary to close up the\naffairs of these tribes upon the lines indicated in agree-\nments ratified by former acts; June 21, 1906 (34 Stat. , 325) ,\nmaking appropriations necessary to carry into effect agreements\nand earlier sets and containing provisions amendatory of previous\nacts.\nAn examination of these acts demonstrates that Congress\nhas acted in accordance with the expressed wishes of the various\ntribes, so far a.s practicable and compatible with effective and\nconsistent administration of their affairs, this work being\nundertaken only after demonstration of the inability of these\npeople to administer their own affairs. (Stephens V. Cherokee\nNation, 174 U. S., 445.) Upon this ground alone these various\nacts are not susceptible to successful attack upon the ground\nthat Congress exceeded its powers.\nThe power of Congress in the premises and the validity\nof the acts in question may be sustained upon another ground,\nand has been so sustained by the courts in like instances.\nIn Kansas Indians (10 Wall., 321, 326) ; Kansas Indians\n(5 Wall. , 737, 758 & 759) ; United States y. Rickert (188 U. S.,\n431. 436), it is clearly shown that the degree of emancipation"
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