§ 251. — Setting up distillery.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[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.
