Mississippi Supreme Court April 15, 1883 (Bates v. Aven)

ChalMers, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

By the sixth section of the nineteenth article of the treaty of Dancing Babbit Creek, entered into between the United States government and the Choctaw Indians (Hutchinson’s Code, 125), there were reserved out of the lands ceded by the Choctaws as many quarter sections of land as there were orphan Indians in the Choctaw nation, which lauds were to