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2023 Cal. Sup. Ct. Hist. Soc'y Rev. 1 (2023)

handle is hein.journals/casrecths2023 and id is 1 raw text is: SUPB& CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT HISTORICAL SOCIETY S RCAL So0 SPRING/SUMMER 2023 AN ACT for the Government and Protection of Indians. Passed April 22, 1850. , i The People of the State (f California, represented in Senate and Assendly, do enact as follow8s * § 1. ,Justices of the Peace shall have jurisdiction in all cases of complaints by, for, or against Indians, in their respective Townships in this State. § 2. Persons and proprietors of lands- on which Indians are re-iding, shall permit such Indians peaceably to reside on such lands, unmolerted in the pursuit of their usual avocations for the maintenance of themselves and families : Provided, the white person or proprietor in possession of such $ lands may apply to a Justice of the Peace in the 'Township where the [ndians reside, to set off to such Indians a certain amount of land, and, on such application, the Justicu shall set off a sufficient amount of land for the necessary wants of such Indians, including the site of their village or residence, if they so prefer it; and in no case shall such selection be made to the prejudice of such Indians, nor shall they be forced to abandon their homes or villages where they have resided for a number of years; and either party feeling themselves aggrieved, can appeal to the County Court from the decision of the Justice : and then divided, a record shall be made of the lands so i-ot off in the Court so dividing them, and the Indians shall be permitted to remain thereon until otherwise provided for. § 3. Any person having or hereafter obtaining a minor Indian, male or female, from the parents or relations of such Indian minor, and wishing to keep it, such peron shall go before a Justice of the Peace in his Township, with the panuts or friends of the child, and if the Ju tine of the fence becouines satisfied that no compulsory means have been used to obtain the child from its parents or friends'shall enter on record, in a book kept for that purpose, the sex end probable age of the child, and shall give to such person a certificate, authorizing him or her to lac the care, eutody, control, and earnings of such minor, until he or she obtain the age of imajority. Every male Indian shall he deemed to have attained his majority at einhteen and the femalo at fifteen car.. Reflections on the Great Denaming Debate

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