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handle is hein.usccsset/usconset29963 and id is 1 raw text is: 57TH CONGRESS, SENATE. DOCUMENT 18t Sesin. No. 343. CLAIMS ARISING FROM INDIAN DEPREDATIONS Mr. GAMBLE presented the following MEMORANDUM RELATING TO SENATE BILL NO. 3544, TO AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ADJUDICA- TION AND PAYMENT OF CLAIMS ARISING FROM INDIAN DEP REDATIONS, APPROVED MARCH 3, 1891. MAY 5,1902.-Referred to the Committee on Indian Depredations and ordered to be printed. The chief purpose of this bill is to remove from the act of March 3, 1891, the requirements of citizenship of the claimant and the amity of the Indians. CITIZENSHIP. By all acts of Congress on the subject, beginning with that of May 19, 1796 (1 Stat. L., 472), a promise of eventual indemnification was made for depredations committed by Indians. This promise was extended to citizens and inhabitants of the United States, and was continued in successive acts, including that of June 30, 1834 (4 Stat. L., 731; R. S., 2156), until the act of March 3, 1885 (23 Stat. L., 376), which authorized the Secretary of the Interior to continue the exam- ination of claims on behalf of citizens of the United States. In this last act, for the first time, inhabitants are excluded. The limitation of the right of compensation to citizens contained in this act was included also in the act of March 3, 1891. Under the act of March 3, 1891, 10,841 suits have been insituted. It is estimated that in a thousand to fifteen hundred of these the claim- ants were not citizens of the United States at th, time the depreda- tions upon their property were committed. This is believed to be attributable in large p'irt to the remoteness of the settlers from the courts and to the fact that the necessity after 1885 of perfecting citi- zenship was not generally understood, chiefly, no doubt, because no such necessity had existed before that time. Many of these unnaturalized claimants bore arms for the United States during the civil war; many of them had declared their inten- tion to become citizens, and subsequently became such; many of them had served as jurors, had exercised the privilege of voting, have held office, and one was a Delegate to Congress from New Mexico in 1880. S D-57-1-Vol 26-1

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