Hill v. Rankin’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““As to restricted lands in the Creek Nation, where descent was east subsequent to the taking effect of Act of May 27, 1908 ( 35 Stat. 312 , e. 199), is sueh descent affected by the 'provisos to section 6 of the Act of June 30, 1902 ( 32 Stat. 500 , c. 1323), known as the Supplemental Agreement, which provides that only citizens of the Creek Nation, male and female, and their Creek descendants, shall inherit lands of the Creek Nation, and provided, further, that, if there be no person of Creek citizenship to take the descent and” distribution of said estate, then the inheritance shall go to noneitizen heirs in the order named in said chapter 49 of Mansfield’s Digest of Arkansas? Said section 6 has its prototype in the laws as ordained by Moses. See Josephus’ Works, Antiquities of the Jews, book 4, e. 7, § 5, from which I quote as follows: ‘At this time the chief men of the tribe of Manasseh came to Moses and informed him that there was an eminent man of their tribe dead, whose name was Zelophehad, who left no male children, but left daughters, and asked him whether these daughters might inherit his land or not. He made this answer: “That if they shall marry in their own tribe, they shall carry their estate along with them; but if they dispose of themselves in marriage to men of another tribe, they shall leave their inheritance in their father’s tribe.” And then it was that Moses ordained that every one’s inheritance should continue in his own tribe.’ See, also, Numbers, c. 36,”

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