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Show 22 apiritoufl liquors to the Indiana, and declared a penalty of a fine not exceeding $ 500 for nuoh offense and also deolared forfeit all the property received from the Indian. On March 6th, 1S52, Indian traders were forbidden to assemble Indiana in the vicinity of any white settlement , the penalty being a fine of not leas than £ 25 nor more than § 1000, Moat significant was an act of E T C H 6th, IS52, " for the further relief of Indian slaves and prisoners," vir- 3 tually legalising Indian slavery. This act will be nor< » fully noticed in connection with the Walker War of 1S55. In the sseantime the Mormons continued to found new colonies; in 16k< 2 they took possession of the Utah Valley; and the valleys of Tuilla and of San Pete. In IS50 a university was founded, four schools opened, several towns established, farms formed in the valley of the Great Salt Lake, and iron works and irrigation were begun. I Utah Territory, Acts, Resolutions and Memorials, p. 63. 2 Ibid., p. 17^. 3 See Chapter VI. |