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Show 383 or riust the divorce necessarily precede any attempt to remove him and keep him from the Reservation? THIRD. 'A'hat, if *Jiy, rights has he to tho property accumulated en the Reservation since their marriage, including money which may be depcBitied in his name at Vernal, Utah, which represents the profits of his undertaking on I_rs. Pike's land? FOURTH. Can he remove from the Reservation against her wishes, horses, cattle, wagons, and other personal property. Has he.a right to dispose of to outsiders any of their personal property, particularly the apiary? Complying with your request for advice and instructions in connection with this cage, the office has to state,first,in reference to llr. Pike's status and 2.13 rights upon the reservation, that Saction 2147 of the Revised Statutes provides that Indian Agents shall have authority to remove from the Indian country "all persons found therein contrary to law; and the President is authorized tc direct the railitary force to be employed in such removal." Section 2148 provides that if any person who has been removed from the Indian country shall thereafter at any time, return or be found within the Indian country, he shall be liable to a penalty of $1,000.00. It has always beer the practice to permit white men married to Indian women having reservation rights, to reside upon tha reservation with the tfife and family, but they do so only by sufferance and acquire no rights Whatever on the reservation. Under the circumstances it is thought that it can hardly be held that l_r- Pike is or. the reservation "contrary to law," Section 2149, however,reads as follows: |
