United States Board of Choctaw Commissioners papers, 1844-1881 (bulk 1844-1845).

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United States Board of Choctaw Commissioners papers, 1844-1881 (bulk 1844-1845).

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Autograph draft letters, reports, decisions, petitions, and a portion of daily proceedings and hearings of the U.S. Board of Choctaw Commissioners, most of them in the hand of Samuel Rush and written at Yazoo, Mississippi. Seven holograph draft letters, six of them written by the Board in 1844-1845, to other attorneys, the Attorney General, the President of the United States, the latter in the form of a report of the commission. One letter, dated 1881 Jul 12, is a cover letter from the Secretary of the Interior to the Attorney General forwarding a petition of the Choctaw Indians, which is not present. The drafts of petitions and opinions (1845 and undated) contain the Commission's questions for the Attorney General, and the opinion of the Attorney General, concerning powers of attorney made by Choctaw claimants. The daily record of proceedings and hearings begins on Jan. 30, 1845 (page 264) and goes through the end of the Commission's work on June 17, 1845 (page 380). Accompanied by a subscription for Old Uncle Aaron, headed by a sketch of a man driving a cart, dated Dec 16 1844.

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