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Show 73 within the United States or the territory thereof, shall send any talk, speech, message, or letter to any Indian agent, trite, chief, or individual, with an intent to produce a countravention or infraction of any treaty or other law of the United States, or to disturb the peace or tranquillity of the United States, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of two thousand dollars ...... or in oase any citizen or other person shall alienate or attempt to alienate, the confidence of any Indian or Indiana from the government of the United States, he shall forfeit the sum of one thousand dollars." Section 14 provides for a fine of one thousand dollars for the carrying or delivering of " such talk, messages, speech or letter to or from any Indian agent," and so on. The act further provides, Section 23, " that it shall be lawful for the military foree of the United States to be employed in such manner and under such regulations aa the President may direct, in apprehension of every person who shall or may be found in the Indian country in violation 1 of any of the provisions of this act." 1 United States Statutes at Large, 23 Cong., 1 Sees., Ch. 16; Acta of 33 Cong., 1 Sess; Act of June 30,' 1234, |
