Morrison Waite

“ As the answer to the first question in the affirmative necessarily covers all that is material in the others, they need not be further referred to, and it is consequently ordered that it be certified to the court below that the first question is answered in the affirmative, and that a further answer to the others is deemed unnecessary.
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“ Is the reservation of the Red Lake and Pembina Indians in Polk county, Minnesota, Indian country, within the meaning of section 2139 of the Revised Statutes of the United States? (2) What is meant by Indian country in the heading of chapter 4, tit. 28, of the Revised Statutes, and in the sections in that chapter which define crimes committed in Indian country? (3) Does section 5596 of the Revised Statutes repeal and abolish the definition of Indian country, found in section 1 of the trade and intercourse act of June 30, 1834, (4 St. 729?) ”