VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justice.
This appeal is from a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, dismissing appellant's petition for a writ of mandamus to require the Secretary of the Interior to pay to relator his per capita interest in certain funds belonging to and being distributed to the Menominee Indians in the state of Wisconsin.
Relator, Besaw, admitted to be a Menominee Indian of mixed blood, was born May 1, 1842, among the Menominee...
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