Nonintercourse Act

and it would have to go through a federal process.

So there was this prohibition that came from anybody who was trying to grab up native lands after the Non-Intercourse Act was signed.

So that was the test.

Was there any reason that if a parcel of land was being acquired that it shouldn't fall under the protection of the Non-Intercourse Act? But here's the kicker.

The land became returned to the Seneca Nation in its true titled form.

So the Senecas wouldn't be holding a New York state deed anymore or a county deed or anything like that.

The land would be taken off of the register of the state as state lands and it would be held in pure title to the Seneca Nation.

Now, the language they use, they call it restricted fee.

Intoxication prevails among them generally and is a bar to the right use of their annuities and to any hope of their permanent advance in civilization.

The Intercourse Act of 1834 does not preclude the introduction of ardent spirits on ceded lands, and consequently, while much of this land is still in reality as much an Indian country as ever, no legal penalty can be enforced by the agents against traffickers.

I am of opinion that the act should be so amended as to apply in all cases where the president may direct to ceded Indian lands not surveyed and also to lands in the frontier land districts not actually sold to citizens.

Two, Saginaw.

The third, fourth, and fifth section of "an act to enable the President to hold treaties with certain Indian tribes, and for other purposes," approved May twenty-five, eighteen hundred and twenty-four.

The second section of the "act to aid certain Indians of the Creek nation in their removal to the west of the Mississippi," approved May twenty, eighteen hundred and twenty-six.

And an act to authorize the appointment of sub-agents to the Winnebago Indians on Rock river, approved February twenty-five, eighteen hundred and thirty-one: Provided, however, That such repeal shall not affect any rights acquired, or punishments, penalties or forfeitures incurred, under either of the acts or parts of acts, nor impair or affect the intercourse act of eighteen hundred and two, so far as the same relates to or concerns Indian tribes residing east of the Mississippi: And provided also, That such repeal shall not be construed to revive any acts or parts of acts repealed by either of the acts or sections herein described.

Section thirty.