These legal documents relate to the case of the United States v. Jonah Carson for trespass. Carson was accused of cutting down ten trees, worth a total of twenty-five dollars, on March 1, 1860 on Ottawa tribal land in the Kansas Territory. Carson was indicted by the Second District Court during the May 1860 court term. After the Indian Removal Act of 1830, two branches of the Ottawa tribe were relocated to 72,000 acres centered around the present-day town of Ottawa, Kansas.
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United States versus Jonah Carson for trespass on Indian lands - 1