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    "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": "Exhibit B.\n(COPY).\nMEMORANDUM.\n:\nSenate Report 5013\n:\n59th Cong. 2d Sess.\n:\n:\n:\nThe above committed report, page 2, speaking of the\nFive Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory, states that:\nBy definite and express act of Congress, March three,\nnineteen hundred and one (31 Stat. 1447), each member of these\ntribes was made a citizen of the United States, and as such,\nunder the terms of the Constitution, and under the terms of said\nlaw, entitled to all the rights, privileges and immunities of\nevery other citizen of the United States. Yet, notwithstanding\nthis express legislative naturalization, Congress in its subse-\nquent legislation, and the Department of the Interior acting\nunder such legislation, has apparently ignored entirely this\nestablished citizenship, and in every instance has treated the\nquestions arising within the Five Civilized Tribes as though no\nsuch acts had ever been passed and as though the Indians were\nstill, in the broadest sense, the wards of the Government.\nThis expression seems to be founded upon a confusion\nof ideas in failing to distinguish between political rights of\nthe persona as a citizen and rights of property as such, and\nits control and alienation. These classes of rights are dis-\ntinet from each other, and grant or possession of the one does\nnot by any legal or logical neceasity include the other, as is\nclear from different degrees or classes of rights enjoyed by\ndifferent classes of persons, lunatics, minors, married women, &c\ndifferent in the several States and Territories.\nThe Indian starts as a member of a dependent community,\nor State, in tutelage and wardship of the United States (Cherokee\nNation V. Georgia, 5 Pet., 1). This is followed by an unvary ing"
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