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[CITE: 25USC251]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
        CHAPTER 6--GOVERNMENT OF INDIAN COUNTRY AND RESERVATIONS
 
             SUBCHAPTER II--TRAFFIC IN INTOXICATING LIQUORS
 
Sec. 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. Sec. 2141.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 2141 derived from act June 30, 1834, ch. 161, Sec. 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, 
Secs. 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, Sec. 1, 19 Stat. 271.
