Chapter 234.
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CHAP. 234.— An act to amend sections twenty-one hundred and thirty-nine, twenty-one hundred and forty, and twenty-one hundred and forty-one of the Revised Statutes touching the sale of intoxicants in the Indian country, and for other purposes.July 23, 1892. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Indians. R. S., sec. 2139, p. 373. Introduction of intoxicating liquors in Indian country forbidden. That section twenty-one hundred and thirty-nine of the Revised Statutes be amended and reenacted so as to read as follows:
" “Sec. 2139. No ardent spirits, ale, beer, wine, or intoxicating liquor or liquors of whatever kind shall be introduced, under any pretense, 261 into the Indian country. Every person who sells, exchanges, gives, barters, or disposes of any ardent spirits, ale, beer, wine, or intoxicating Penalty.liquors of any kind to any Indian under charge of any Indian superintendent or agent, or introduces or attempts to introduce any ardent spirits, ale, wine, beer, or intoxicating liquor of any kind into the Indian country shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than two years, and by tine of not more than three hundred dollars for each offense.
But it shall be a sufficient defense to any charge of introducingAuthority from War Department. or attempting to introduce ardent spirits, ale, beer, wine, or intoxicating liquors into the Indian country that the acts charged were done under authority in writing from the War Department, or any officer duly authorized thereunto by the War Department. All complaints forComplaints. the arrest of any person or persons made for violation of any of the provisions of this act shall be made in the county where the offense shall have been committed, or if committed upon or within any reservation not included in any county, then in any county adjoining such reservation. and, if in the Indian Territory, before the United States court commissioner, or commissioner of the circuit court of the United States residing nearest the place where the offense was committed, who is not for any reason disqualified: but in all cases such arrests shall be madeArrests. before any United States court commissioner residing in such adjoining county, or before any magistrate or judicial officer authorized by the laws of the State in which such reservation is located to issue warrants for the arrest and examination of offenders by section ten hundredR.
S., sec. 1014, p. 189. and fourteen of the Revised Statutes of the United States. And all persons so arrested shall, unless discharged upon examination, beTrial. held to answer and stand trial before the court of the United States having jurisdiction of the offense.” " Approved, July 23, 1892.