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 far as they may exist by force of any such treaty, shall continue to exist so long as such treaties are in force, and no longer.

§ [98.] No corporation or association more than twenty per centum of the stock of which is or may be owned by any person or persons, corporation or corporations, association or associations, not citizens of the United States, shall hereafter acquire or hold or own any real estate hereafter acquired in any of the territories of the United States or of the District of Columbia.

§ [99.] No corporation other than those organized for the construction or operation of railways, canals, or turnpikes shall acquire, hold own more than five thousand acres of land in any of the territories of the United States; and no railroad, canal, or turnpike corporation shall hereafter acquire hold, or own lands in any territory, other than as may be necessary for the proper operation of its railroad, canal, or turnpike, except such land as may have been granted to it by act of congress. But the pro­hibition of this section shall not affect the title to any lands now lawfully held by any such corporation.

§ [100.] All property acquired, held or owned in violation of the provisions of this act shall be forfeited to the United States, and it shall be the duty of the attorney-general to enforce every such forfeiture by bill in equity or other proper process. And in any suit or proceeding that may be commence to enforce the provisions of this act, it shall be the duty of the court to determine the very right of the matter without regard to matters of form, joinder of parties, multifariousness, or other matters not affecting the substantial rights either of the United States or of the parties concerned in any such proceeding arising out of the matters in this act mentioned.

Section.

101. Rights of Indians in person and property not impaired, etc.

102. Authority to regulate Indians.

103. Allotment of lands to Indians.

104. Land, how and by whom selected.

105. Allotments made by special agents.

106. Local land office to make allotment, when.

Section.

107. Secretary of the interior to issue patents to allottees, etc.

108. Indians to have benefit of, and be subject to laws, when.

109. Jurisdiction of territorial courts over In­dians committing certain crimes.

§ [101.] Nothing in this title shall be construed to impair the rights of per on or property pertaining to the Indians in any territory, so long as such rights remain unextinguished by treaty between the United States and such Indians, or to include any territory which, by treaty with any Indian tribe, is not, without the consent of such tribe, embraced within the territorial limits or jurisdiction of any state or territory; but all such territory shall be excepted out of the boundaries and constitute no part of any territory now or hereafter organized, until such tribe signifies its assent to the president to be embraced within a particular territory.

§ [102.] Nor shall anything in this title be construed to affect the authority of the United States to make any regulations respecting the Indians of any territory, their land, property, or rights, by treaty, law or otherwise, in the same manner as might be if no temporary government existed or is hereafter estab­lished in any such territory.

§ [103.] In all cases where any tribe or band of Indians has been, or shall hereafter be, located upon any reservation created for their use, either by treaty stipulation or by virtue of an act of congress or executive order setting apart the same for their