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Show i A •3 * 3 Red Lake Reservation, Minnesota. By Section 5 of ths Act of May 11, 1853 (11 Stat. L.285), authorizing the admission of Minnesota into the Union as a state, it is provided: "That sections numbered sixteen and thirty-six in svery township of public lands of said stats x x x x shall be granted to said state for the use of schools." Under tha act of January 14, 1889 (25 Stat. L. 642), an agreement ?/as made with the Red Laka Band of Chippswa Indians for ths csssion and relinquishment of a largs portion of thsir reservation in ths stats of Minnssota. This agreement was approved -by the President on March 4, 1890. The stata of Minnesota claimed title to sections 16 and .35 within ths ceded portion, for school purposes in conformity with the above-quoted provision of the Enabling Act. Said lands were to be sold and ths proceeds deposited in the Treasury of the United States as a permanent fund to the credit of the Indians, drawing interest at 5 per centum per annum for 50 years, three-fourths of the interest to be paid to the Indians in cash, . and one-fourth dsvotsd exclusively to the maintsnance of a system of frse schools • among said Indians in their midst and for their benefit. In Minnesota v. Hitchcock (185 U. S. 373), tha court said': -217' |
