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AN ACT to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers, approved June 30th, 1834. SEC. 20. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall sell, exchange, or give, barter, or dispose of, any spirituous liquor or wine to an Indian, (in the Indian country,) such person shall forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars; and if any person shall introduce, or attempt to introduce, any spirituous liquor or wine into the Indian country, except such supplies as shall be necessary for the offi- cers of the United States and troops of the service, under the direction of the War Department, such person shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding three hundred dollars; and if any superintendent of Indian affairs, Indian agent, or sub-agent, or commanding officer of a military post, has reason to suspect, or is informed, that any white person or Indian is about to introduce, or has introduced, any spirituous liquor or wine into the Indian country, in violation of the provisions of this section, it shall be lawful for such superintendent, Indian gent, or sub-agent, or military officer, agreeably to such regulations as may be established by the President of the United States, to cause the boats, stores, packages, and places of de- posite of such person to be searched, and if any such spirituous liquor or wine is found, the goods, boats, packages, and peltries of such persons shall be seized and delivered to the proper officer, and shall be pro- ceeded against by libel in the proper court, and forfeited, one half to the use of the informer, and the other half to the use of the United States; and if such person is a trader, his license shall be revoked and his bond put in suit. And it shall moreover be lawful for any person in the service of the United States, or for any Indian, to take and destroy any ardent spirits or wine found in the Indian country, excepting military sup- plies as mentioned in this section. SEC. 21. And be it further enacted, That if any person whatever shall, within the limits of the Indian country, set up or continue any distillery for manufacturing ardent spirits, he shall forfeit and pay a penalty of one thousand dollars; and it shall be the duty of the superintendent of Indian affairs, Indian agent, or sub-agent, within the limits of whose agency the same shall be set up or continued, forthwith to destroy and break up the same; and it shall be lawful to employ the military force of the United States in executing that duty. AN ACT to amend an act entitled An act to provide for the better organization of the Department of Indian Affairs,and an act en- titled An act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers,approved March 3d, 1847. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the twentieth section of the act to regulate trade and inter- course with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers, approved June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, be, and the same is hereby so aamended, that, in addition to the fines thereby imposed, any person who shall sell, exchange or barter, give, or dispose of, any spirituous liquor or wine to an Indian, in the Indian country, or who shall introduce, or attempt to introduce, any spirituous liquor or wine into the Indian country, except such supplies as may be necessary for officers of the United States and the troops of the service, under the direction of the War Department, such person, on conviction thereof, before the proper district court of the United States, shall in the former case be subject to imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years, and in the latter case not exceeding one year, as shall be prescribed by the court, and under the twentieth section of the act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers, approved June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, to which this is an ammendment, Indians, shall be competent witnesses. Baltimore 5 Mo 20, 1847 To the Committee on Indian Concerns of New York Yearly Meeting Dear Friends At a Meeting of the Indian Committee of Baltimore Yearly Meeting held this day. In reply to a communication addressed to the Secretary of War, giving him some account of the past history &; present condition of our Establishment on the Kanzas river and requesting from the Department a copy of the Laws &; Regulations for preventing the introduction of Spirituous liquors into the Indian Country Adopted at the last session of Congress. A letter was received from Wm. McGill office of Indian Affairs enclosing several copies of the Document referred to. The Clerk is directed to forward a copy of the same to our superintendent &; teacher at our Establishment and also to the Indian Committees of New England, New York, Ohio &; Indiana with a copy of this minute Signed on behalf of the Committee Richard H. Thomas Clerk