Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1847-05-28
DAVID FULTON, Eprron.
VOL 3.---NO. 81.

SEC <. ana De 1t further enacted, That the
twentieth section of the act to regulate trade
and intercourse with the Indian tribes and to pre-
serve peace on the trontIers, approved June thir-
teth, eighteen hundred and thirty -four, be- and the
same is hereby 81 amended: that, in addition to
the fines thereby imposed, any person who shall
sell, exchange or barter, give, or dispose of, any
Sirittous liquor or wine to an Indian, in the In
dian country, or who shall introduce, or attempt
to introduce any sirituOus liquor wine into the
Indian country, except such supplies as may be
necessary for the 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 Uni
ted States, shall in the formor case be subject to
imprisonment for period not exceeding two years.
and in the latter case not exceeding one year, as
shall be prescribed by the court, according to the
extent and criminality of the offence. And in all
prosecutions arising under this section, and under
the twentieth section of the act to regulate trade
and intercourse with the Indian tribes and to pre-
serve peace OIL the frontiers, approved June thr-
teth, eighteen hundred and thirty -four, to which
this is an amendment, Indians shall be competent
witnesses.
SEC. 8. And be 1t further enacted, That the
eleventh section of the act to provide fer the bet
ter organization of the department of Indian af-
fairs" approved June thirtieth, eighteen hundred
and thIrty-fo be, and the same Is hereby, so
amended as to provide that all annuities or other
moneys, and all goods, stipulated by treaty to sc
paid or furnished to any Indian tribe, SHALL at the
discretion of the President or Secretary of War
instead of being paid to the chiefs, or to such
persons as they shall designate, be divided and
paid over to the heads CT families and other indi
viduals entitled to participate therein, or with the
off no tribn no pl,a1f to
will best promote the happiness and prosperity Of
the members thereof, under such regulations as
shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War, not
inconsistent with existing treaty stipulations. And
no such annuties, or moneys, or goods, shall be
paid or distributed to the Indians while they are
under the Influence of any description of intoxica
ting liquor, nor while there good and sufficient
reasons for the officers or agents, whose duty il
may be to make such payments or distribution
for believing that there is any species of intoxica
ting liquor within convenient reach of the Indians
nor until the chiefs and headmen of the tribe shall
| have pledged themselves to use all their influence
and to make all proper exertions to prevent the in.
PRODUCTION and sale of such liquor in their courp
try; and all executory contracts made and entered
into by any Indian for the payment of money OF
goods shall be deemed and held to be null and
void, and of no binding effect whatsoever.
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and after the thireth day of June next one of the
clerkshps of thousand dollars in the office of In
dian affairs shall be DISCONTINUED and that TO the
salary of chief clerk of said office there shall be
added the sum of one hundred dollars, and to one
of the salaries of a thousand dollars the sum Of
two hundred dollars.
Sec. s. and be 1t further enacted, That in ait
of the means now possessed by the department O.
Indian affairs through its existing organization
there be, and hereby is, appropriated, the sum o
five thousand dollars, to enable the said depart
mcnt, under the direction of the Secretary of War
to collect and digest such statistics and materials
as may illustrate the history, the present condi
ton, and future prospects of the Indian tribes O.
the United States.
SEC. 6. And be 1t further enacted, That fol-
the purchase of presents for the Camanche ant
other Indians Of Texas and the southwestern prai
RES promised them in eighteen hundred and forty
six, and for the same object the present year, the
sum of twenty thou sand dollars be, and the same
is hereby, appropriated out of any money in th'
treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided
That so much of the amount, not exceeding one
half, as may be found necessary on proper set
Element of the account of Messrs Terry anc
brothers, be paid to them for presents which they
advanced in the year eighteen hundred and forty
six, the War Department not having the authori
ty to furnish them.
SEC. Z. And be 1t further enacted, That TO
compensation of a special agent and two interPre
tiers for one year, to enable the War Department
TO keep up such communication with the salC
Indians as may be necessary towards the prese~
Walton of good understanding with them, anC
securing peace on the frontier, the sum of three
thousand six hundred and fifty dollars be, and 'h'
same is hereby, appropriated out of any money il
the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and tina
the sum of ten thousand dollars be, and the same
is hereby, appropriated to carry into effect the trea
ty with the Cumanche and othar tribes of Indians
SEc. s. And be it further enacted, That th'
sum of six thousand dollars be, and the same i
hereby, appropriated out of any money in th'
treasury not otherwise appropriated, and placed q
the discretion of the President to defray the ex
penses of the commission now sitting under thu
treaty between the United States and the Chero
kee Indians of eighteen hundred and thirty-fv'
and six.
Approved, March 8, lS47.