State v. Lussier’s Empirical Analysis

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4 federal appellate · 5 state decisions

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1. “Be it enacted ... That there is hereby granted to the Minneapolis, Red Lake and Manitoba Railway Company ... its successors and assigns, owning and operating ... a line of railroad in the State of Minnesota, having its northern terminus at a point on the shore of Lower Red Lake, Minnesota ... in the Red Lake Indian Reservation, as more particularly shown upon a map of definite location approved by the Secretary of the Interior ... the right to select and take from the lands of the Red Lake Indian Reservation grounds adjacent to its northern terminus ... not to exceed in extent three hundred and twenty acres. Sec. 2. That before titles to said lands shall vest in the said railway company, and before said company shall occupy or use said lands, compensation therefor shall be made to the tribes of Indians residing upon the said reservation and to any individual occupant of any said lands. The amount of compensation ... shall be ... determined in such manner as the Secretary of the Interior may direct and be subject to his final approval. Sec. 8. That said company shall file maps ... showing the definite location of the grounds so selected and taken, which said maps shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interi- or; but no right of any kind shall vest in said railway company ... until the maps showing the same shall have been approved by the Secretary of the Interior and until compensation aforesaid shall have been fixed and paid. Sec. 4. That the right herein g”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Jackson