Holcomb. who I believe was Commissioner of Indian Affairs in 1881. in speaking of this subject. uses this language: The lands reconveyed to the United States by the foregoing treaties are therefore held subject to the trust named. They can be appropriated only to the uses specified. and to those uses only by the United States. and then only in the manner provided for by law. Miscellaneous immigration. even by the intended beneficiaries. would be unauthorized and illegal. Again and again have these assertions been made by Secretaries of the Interior. Commissioners of Indian Affairs. and by Presidents. and it is left for this Administration to be the first to deny that these conditions apply as well to the lands of the Chickasaws and Choctaws as they apply to the lands of the Cherokees. the Creeks. and the Seminoles.
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