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On the recordFebruary 16, 1892
I do not believe that the lands for which this money is to be paid were, to quote the language of section 15 of the Indian appropriation bill, already set out, 'ceded in trust by article 3 of the treaty between the United States and said Choctaw and Chickasaw nations of Indians which was concluded April 28, 1866,' etc.
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Ben Harrison
Republican · Indiana

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Message to Congress Regarding the Choctaw and Chickasaw Appropriation

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