Name: Fee v. Brown — Opinion of the Court
Author: Henry Billings Brown

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Henry Billings Brown, Fee v. Brown — Opinion of the Court

“ Granting to each head of a family, in fee simple, a reservation of eighty acres of land, to be selected in the territory ceded, so soon as surveys shall be completed, by those entitled, which said reservations shall be patented by the president of the United States, and the patent therefor shall expressly declare that the said lands shall not be alienated or leased by the reservees,' etc. ”

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Henry Billings Brown, Fee v. Brown — Opinion of the Court

“ By subsequent articles the United States agreed to pay for the land ceded an annuity, and also a certain sum in agricultural implements, household furniture, and cooking utensils, and also to furnish guns, rifles, beaver traps, ammunition, and ready-made clothing, to be distributed among the young men of the nation, as well as to furnish a blacksmith and assistant, with the usual amount of stock, during the continuance of the annuity payments. ”

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Henry Billings Brown, Fee v. Brown — Opinion of the Court

“ By this second article the United States agreed to set apart and withhold from sale, for the use of the Chippewas of Lake Superior, certain tracts of land, all of which were within the states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, and in the same article (paragraph 7) provided that each head of a family, or single person over 21 years of age, of mixed blood, should be entitled to 80 acres of land, to be selected by them under the direction of the president. ”

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Henry Billings Brown, Fee v. Brown — Opinion of the Court

“ Or why provide that it should be shown that such claims were held by innocent parties in good faith, and that the locations made under such claims had been made in good faith by innocent holders? Strictly speaking, no person who had located this scrip, except the half-breeds themselves, could be said to be purchasers in good faith, since they were apprised by the treaty and the act of December 19, 1854, that the scrip could only be located within the ceded territory by the beneficiaries therein named, and that such scrip was incapable of alienation. ”

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Henry Billings Brown, Fee v. Brown — Opinion of the Court

“ It was doubtless contemplated that these lands might in the meantime have largely risen in value, or that persons obtaining knowledge of the invalidity of the original location may have proceeded to preempt them, to locate them under the homestead laws, or otherwise with a design of obtaining for a nominal consideration the benefit of their rise in value. ”

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Henry Billings Brown, Fee v. Brown — Opinion of the Court

“ The evil to be remedied was the one relating to these illegal locations, and, if consistent with its language, the act ought to receive a construction broad enough to effectuate this remedy. While congress was not disposed to validate these locations as if they had bee lawfully made, it did recognize them as giving to the locator a primary right of purchase, at a price not less than the minimum price of public lands, namely, $1.25 per acre. ”

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