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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD
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UNITED STATES SELECT COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS
 Senate Hearing 95th Congress
SECOND SESSION
ON
S.  2000

From Morton H. Silver
to
US Attorney General
October 1, 1953

October 1, 1953 - Letter to Attorney General, registered mail, return receipt, c/o Mr. J. Edward Williams.  Same letter sent to Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Secretary of Interior, Washington D.C. from Morton H. Silver.
 

(Retyped for clarity)

Morton H. Silver                                             Ft. Lauderdale Fla., Office
Attorney At Law                              Charles H. Monast, Associate
                                                                Lawyer's Building
                                                                          _____________
3332 Biscayne Building        Telephone 2-2162

19 West Flagler Street
Miami 32, Florida
__________________
  Telephone 82-8515

                                                                October 1, 1953

Registered Mail****RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED

Attorney General of the
United States of America
Washington, D. C.

Attention: Mr. J. Edward Williams

Dear Sir:

I have been asked by the General Council of the Seminole Indians to write to you and convey the following information in reference to two petitions filed before the Indian Claims Commission, numbered 73 and 73A.

The General Council has stated that the aforesaid petitions have not been authorized by them or for them.

The General Council has stated that it is not their desire or intention, now or in the future, to accept any money from the United States Government.

         Please advise,

Respectfully,

 

/a/ Morton H. Silver

    Morton H. Silver

 

See also: October 1, 1953  - Written directions from Ingraham Billie, Head Medicine Man of the "General Council of the Seminole Indians of the State of Florida" in a notarized letter of instructions to Morton H. Silver, re-affirming the eternal position of "no money, only land," and stated instructions to fight the "money claim," filed in the name of ALL Seminoles of Florida, without the authority of the General Council, and acknowledgement of Morton's advise as to the inadvisability of taking such action, translated and interpreted by Buffalo Tiger.

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