Joseph McKenna

“ On September 14, 1910, that is, subsequent to the decree conferring majority rights upon Goodman, and subsequent to the lease under which appellants hold, the legal guardian of Goodman granted a lease in behalf of Goodman to appellee, covering the same lands. This lease was both authorized and confirmed by the order of the county court for Nowata county, Oklahoma, that court then having probate jurisdiction of the person and estate of Goodman, and Goodman at that time being a minor. ”

“ All lands, including homesteads, of said allottees enrolled as intermarried whites, as freedmen, and as mixedblood Indians having less than half Indian blood, including minors, shall be free from all restriction. All lands, except homesteads, of said allottees enrolled as mixedblood Indians having half or more than half and less than three-quarters Indian blood, shall be free from all restrictions. ”

“ The construction has become a rule of property in the state, and we should be disposed to accept it as such, even if we had doubts of the construction of the act of May 27, 1908. Reynolds v. Fewell, 236 U.S. 58, 59 L. ed. --, 35 Sup. Ct. Rep. 230.
The other contentions of appellants which have been argued are but phases of those we have reviewed, or are determined by the same considerations. ”