Petition for Review Before the Secretary of the Interior. Settlers on the Osage Purchase in Kansas vs. Railroad Companies. Argument for Petitioners, by William Johnston, of the Cincinnati Bar.

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This printed legal brief, submitted on behalf of Kansas settlers, challenges railroad land claims on the Osage Purchase—land acquired from the Great and Little Osage tribes by treaty in 1867. Johnston argues that settlers, not railroad corporations, are the rightful claimants under the joint resolution of Congress dated April 10, 1869. Citing the terms of federal treaties and invoking preemption rights, the petition contends that public lands should not be granted wholesale to railroads without protecting the legal rights of homesteaders.

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