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Show I REPORT OF TEE COMMISBIONER OF INDIAN APPAIHS. 77 become so largely self-regulating that the office attempts little more 1 than to see that licensed traders and their emplo~Bsa re proper persons to reside upon a reservation and that they obey the regulations of the Indian Bureau. One of the most strenuous of these regulations is that relating to the ! use or sale of intoxicating liquors of any kind, including eren compounds composed in part of alcohol or whisky, such as cologne, essences, etc., 1 which Indians are apt to use as "beverages'> for the sake of them alto- , holic erects. The wording of the regulations is as follows: License to trade does not confer. the right to traffic in ar to have in possession any description of wines, beer, cider, intoxioating liquor, or compounds oompoaed in par$ of sleohol or whisky. The wording of the skatute on this subject is as follows: Section 2139, Revised Statntes: No ardent spirits s h l l be introduced, under any pretenm, into the Indian country. Every person (except an Indian, in the Indian country) who sells, exohanges, gives, barters, or dieposes of any spiritnons liquors or wine toeny Indian under the charge of any Indian superintendent or agent, or introduces or attempts to introduce any, spirituous liquor or wine into the Indian country, shell bepunishable by imprison-ment fm not more than 2 years and by a. fine of not more thsn 8300. But it shall be a, suffioient defense to my ohmge of int,rodueing or attempting to introduce liquor into the Indian country that the acts charged were done by order of or under author-ity from the War Department or any offioer duly anthorieed tllereunto hy the War Department. Section %140, Be~i s e dS tatutes: If any superintendent 6f Indian affairs, Indian agent or subagent, or commmd-ing offioerof a milirary post haa reason to suspect or is informed that any white per-son or Indian is about to introduce or has introduced auy spirituous liquor or wine into the Indian oonntrv in violation of law. suoh sa~erintandenta. eent. subacent. I - , or commanding offioer may oause the boats, stores, packages, wagons, sleds, and places of deposit of sueh person to be sesrohed; and if any such liquor is found therein, the same.. to-ee ther with the boats. teams., wae.*o na,. and sleds used in oonvs"v inue the same. and alao the goods, packages, and peltries of suoh persoo, shall be seined and delivered to the proper officer, and shall be proceeded against by libel in the Droner aaurt, and forfeited, one-half to theinformersud the other half to the useof the united states; and if such person be a trader, his license shall be revoked and his bond pnt in suit. It shall, moreover, he the duty of any person in the servioe of the United States,-or of any Indian, to take and destroy auy ardent spirits or wine found in the Indian oauntry, except anoh ss may be introduced therein by the War Department. In all oases arising nuder this and the preceding soation Indiana shill1 be competent wit-nesses. Act of Angnst 15,1876 (19 Stat., 200) : The Commissioner of Indian AVaira has the sole power and authority to appoint traders to the Indian tribes, sod to make suoh rules and regulations as he may deem just add proper, speoifyiug the kind and quantity of goods aud the prices st whioh such goods shall be sold to the Indians. The rules of the office and the meaning and intent of the statutes are explicit and unmistakable, and the office has been strict iu itsendeavors to enforce them. I t has repeatedly refusedlicenses beoause the papers submitted showed the applicant8 for license to be, or to have been, persons more or less addicted to the use of intoxicants. The ground |