statutes-at-large

Updated: May 18, 2025

It was done once in the case of the Choctaw Indians, as you will find in the Statutes-at-Large, where, in case the heads of families desired to remain and not to remove to the West, it was provided by the treaty of September 27, 1830, that those families should be naturalized as a class. "It was done again, as you may remember, in the case of the Cherokees, in December, 1835.

William Horatio Barnes - History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States