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UNITED STATES v. FIRST NATIONAL BANK

Nos. 873, 874, 875.

234 U.S. 245 (1914)

UNITED STATES v. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF DETROIT, MINNESOTA. UNITED STATES v. NICHOLS-CHISHOLM LUMBER COMPANY. UNITED STATES v. NICHOLS-CHISHOLM LUMBER COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 8, 1914.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The Solicitor General, with whom Mr. C.C. Daniels and Mr. W.A. Norton, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, were on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. Ransom J. Powell, with whom Mr. George T. Simpson and Mr. Ernest C. Carman were on the brief, for appellees.

MR. JUSTICE DAY, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

Before the transfers here complained of and while the lands were held in trust, subject to the provisions of the act of February 8, 1887, supra, the Clapp Amendment was passed, having the purpose of removing the restrictions upon alienation in certain cases. This act provides, (34 Stat., p. 1034):

"That all restrictions...

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