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![handle is hein.amindian/irameho0001 and id is 1 raw text is: [No. 79-Second Series-3000.]
INDIAN RIGHTS ASSOCIATION,
709 Provident Building,
Philadelphia, March 25, 1908.
To OUR MEMBERS AND FRIENDS:
The following letter has been sent to every member of
Congress. Will you not kindly reinforce the request therein
made by writing to your representatives in the House and
Senate, urging them to use their influence to protect the rights
of the Indian ?
The press of the country can materially aid in this effort by
calling attention to the matter editorially.
CHARLES C. BINNEY, President.
To THE MEMBERS OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF THE UNITED
STATES:
We respectfully invite your attention to the pending bills
(Senate: 5586; H. R.: 15641) by which it is proposed to remove
the restrictions from the alienation or incumbrance of certain
lands in the State of Oklahoma allotted to members of the
Five Civilized Tribes. The agreements under which a portion
of the lands of the Five Civilized Tribes were allotted in
severalty, and the balance opened to the white settlenient, all
contained provisions to the following effect:
All the lands allotted shall be non-taxable
while the title remains in the original allottees, but
not to exceed twenty-one years from the date of
the patent.
The agreements containing this provision were ratified and
confirmed by Congress, and constitute an obligation of the gov-
ernment of the United States which should remain inviolate.
The policy of removing most of the restrictions heretofore im-
posed upon the alienation or incumbrance of lands allotted to
the Indians may be unobjectionabl in itself, but it ought not
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