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Burke Act; Other short titles: General Allotment Act Amendment of 1906: Long title: An Act to amend section six of an act approved February eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled "An Act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians, and ...
The 1833 Treaty of Chicago was an agreement between the United States government and the Chippewa, Odawa, and Potawatomi tribes. It required them to cede to the United States government their 5,000,000 acres (2,000,000 ha) of land (including reservations) in Illinois, the Wisconsin Territory, and the Michigan Territory and to move west of the Mississippi River.
The Illinois Territory originally included lands that became the states of Illinois, Wisconsin, the eastern portion of Minnesota, and the western portion of the upper peninsula of Michigan. As part of Illinois Territory’s statehood process, the Territory retroceded its Wisconsin lands. Congress reassigned the ceded lands to Michigan Territory.
The Indian Appropriations Act of 1889 was passed and signed into law with an amendment by U.S. Representative (congressman) William McKendree Springer (1836-1903), (Republican of Illinois) that authorized 23rd President Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901, served 1889-1893), to open the two million acres (8,100 km 2) of the western portion of the ...
A Guide to the History of Illinois. (1991) Howard, Robert P. Illinois: A History of the Prairie State (1972). Howard, Robert P. Mostly Good and Competent Men: Illinois Governors 1818–1988 (1988) Hutchinson, William. Lowden of Illinois the Life of Frank O. Lowden 2 vol (1957) governor in 1917–21; Jensen, Richard.
Appropriation for the Recognition of the Treaty with Morocco. An Act making an appropriation for the purpose therein mentioned. Sess. 3, ch. 16 1 Stat. 214 (chapter 16) 17: March 3, 1791: Temporary and Permanent Seat of the Government. An Act to amend “An act for establishing the temporary and permanent seat of the Government of the United ...
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The Supreme Court decision in Illinois Central Railroad v. Illinois, 146 U.S. 387 (1892), reaffirmed that each state in its sovereign capacity holds title to all submerged lands within its borders and holds these lands in public trust. [1] This is a foundational case for the public trust doctrine.