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Excerpt from Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Indian Affairs of the House of Representatives: H. R. 2614, to Amend Sections 2139 and 2140 of Revised Statutes and the Acts Amendatory Thereof, and for Other Purposes
Sec. 2. Any person having been convicted of a second or subsequent offense under section one of this act shall be punished by a fine of not less than $200 or more than and by imprisonment for not less than six months or more than three years.
Sec. 3. That if the chief special o?icer or any of his duly authorized depu ties whose appointments have been affirmed by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, or any Indian superintendent, or other person in the service of the United States whose appointment is made by the Secretary of the Interior or the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, or any United States marshal or his deputy, has reason to suspect or is informed that any of the intoxicants, drugs, or preparations enumerated in, or coming within the purview of this act, have been or are about to be introduced into or conveyed across any of the places mentioned herein in violation of law, or that any such intoxicants, drugs, prepa rations, or articles are within any of such places in violation of law, it shall be the duty of such person to search the premises, conveyances, or places of deposit and to take and destroy any of the aforesaid intoxicants, drugs, prepa rations, or articles found in any such place or places, except such as may be introduced therein by or under authority in writing of the Secretary of the Interior or the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and to seize the places of deposit and all articles and goods found therewith or therein, the teams, wagons, sleds, boats, automobiles, or any other vehicles or conveyances used in the transporta tion of such intoxicants, drugs, or preparations, whether used by the owner thereof or other persons, and deliver them to the proper officer, and same shall be proceeded against by libel in the proper court; and if such person be a trader his license shall be revoked and his bond put in suit. In all cases arising under this, or any other law, Indians shall be competent witnesses.
Sec. 4. That hereafter when any reservation or portion thereof is thrown open for settlement the lands allotted, those retained or reserved, and the sur plus lands sold or otherwise disposed of shall be subject to all the laws of the United States relative to the introduction, possession, sale, or other disposal and seizure of intoxicants, drugs, and preparations until Congress shall other wise provide.
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