WILBUR, Circuit Judge.
This is an action by the United States government to cancel a sheriff's deed to certain real property theretofore patented to the Indian heirs of an Indian allottee. The patent contained the following proviso: "The land covered by this patent is not liable for any debt contracted prior to this date, as provided by section 5 of the Act of February 8, 1887 (24 Stat. 388, 389), and the amendatory Acts of May 8, 1906 (34 Stat. 182), and June 21...
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