Supreme Court of the United States December 18, 1870 (Smith v. Stevens)

Mr. Justice DAVIS

delivered the opinion of the court.

The eleventh article of the treaty of 1825 contains a stipu- • lation, that the nation shall not sell the specified allotment of lauds reserved for the benefit of each of the half-breeds named in it (Victoria Smith being one of them) without the permission of the government; and it would seem.