2011 US Code
Title 25 - Indians
Chapter 6 - GOVERNMENT OF INDIAN COUNTRY AND RESERVATIONS (§§ 211 - 266)
Subchapter II - TRAFFIC IN INTOXICATING LIQUORS (§§ 241 - 254)
Section 251 - Setting up distillery

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Publication TitleUnited States Code, 2006 Edition, Supplement 5, Title 25 - INDIANS
CategoryBills and Statutes
CollectionUnited States Code
SuDoc Class NumberY 1.2/5:
Contained WithinTitle 25 - INDIANS
CHAPTER 6 - GOVERNMENT OF INDIAN COUNTRY AND RESERVATIONS
SUBCHAPTER II - TRAFFIC IN INTOXICATING LIQUORS
Sec. 251 - Setting up distillery
Containssection 251
Date2011
Laws in Effect as of DateJanuary 3, 2012
Positive LawNo
Dispositionstandard
Source CreditR.S. §2141.
Statutes at Large References4 Stat. 732
19 Stat. 271
64 Stat. 1262

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25 USC § 251 (2011)
§251. Setting up distillery

Every person who shall, within the Indian country, set up or continue any distillery for manufacturing ardent spirits, shall be liable to a penalty of $1,000; and the superintendent of Indian affairs, Indian agent, or subagent, within the limits of whose agency any distillery of ardent spirits is set up or continued, shall forthwith destroy and break up the same.

(R.S. §2141.)

Codification

R.S. §2141 derived from act June 30, 1834, ch. 161, §21, 4 Stat. 732.

Transfer of Functions

For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

Indian Agents

The services of Indian agents have been dispensed with. See note set out under section 64 of this title.

Superintendent of Indian Affairs

No appropriation for any superintendent of Indian affairs has been made since act Mar. 3, 1877, ch. 101, §1, 19 Stat. 271.

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