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 THIRTY—SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 24, 25. 1862. 339 “ Sec. 20-. And be il further enacted, That if any person shaii se1\,Bp;f§:;b‘§;§·,hQ1*Lm' exchange, give, barter, or dispose of any spirituous liquor or wine to &c__ to 1mm;,;, any Indian under the charge of any Indian superintendent or Indian how punished. agent appointed by the United States, or shall introduce or attempt to introduce any spirituous liquor or wine into the Indian country, such person, on conviction thereof before the proper district court of the United States, shall be imprisoned for a, period not exceeding two years, and shall be fined not more than three hundred dollars: Provided, h0w· FHM50- ever, That it shall be a sufficient defence to any charge of introducing or attempting to introduce liquor into the Indian country if it be proved to be done by order of the War Department, or of any officer duly authorized thereto by the War Department. And if any superint<-md- &S¤I:*:¤*;‘S;;’*· ent of Indian affairs, Indian agent or sub-agent, or commanding odiccr seggchtgrbg UML, of a military post, has reason to suspect or is informed that any white of suspected person or Indian is about to introduce or has introduced any spirituous Pl"‘°“*°' 1“l“"" liquor or wine into the Indian country, in violation of the provisions of this section, it shall be lawful for such superintendent, agent, subagent, or commanding officer, to cause the boats, stores, packages, wagons, sleds, and places of deposit of such person to be searched; and if any such liquor is found therein, the same, together with the boats, teams, wagons, and sleds used in conveying the same, and also the goods, packages, and peltries of such person, shall be seized and delivered to the proper officer, and shall be proceeded against by libel in the proper _ Proceedings if court, and forfeited, one half to the informer and the other half to the hquw “f°°°d' use of the United States; and if such person be a trader, his license shall be revoked and his bond put in suit. And it shall moreover be lawful for any person in the service of the United States, or for any Argent spirits Indian, to take and destroy any ardent spirits or wine found in the ¥;£;;°c;$;':S· m .. . y, Indian country, except such as may be introduced therein by the War exccpg gw, xngy Department: And in all cases arising under this act Indians shell be b¤Id$;f¤<>>’¤d· competent witnesses? be ‘}_vfg,1;;§;ym_ Approved, February 13, 1862. der um act. CHAP. XXV. —An Act making an Agpropriationjbr completing the Degfbnces of Waslz- February13, 1862. ington, an for other Purposes. ""`_—`_` Be it enacted by the Senate and &use of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of one hundred f AP¥;_¤‘°P*i¤tif?¤ and fifty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, out of {gg3Q;;?:;? any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for completing the defences of Wasliixigtonz Provided, That all arrearages of debts al- Pi-oviso. ready incurred for the objects of this act shall be first paid out of this sum: Audprovided,further, That no part of the sum hereby appropriated shall be expended in any work hereafter to be commenced. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the fifth section of the act of Enlistmeut of tyventy-eighth September, eighteen hundred and fifty, providing for the ;‘§g'6;":h_ 7S` § 5_ discharge from the service of rumors enlisted without the consent of their VOL gx_ p, 507, parents or guardians, be, and the same hereby is repealed: Provided, That hereafter no person under the age of eighteen shall be mustered into the United States service, and the oath of enlistment taken by the recruit shall be conclusive as to his age. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That no volunteers or militia from ¥¤S¥¤¤'i¤g of any State or Territory shall be mustered into the service of the United ¥,.:Q;i°Q,°cj"t° States on any terms or conditions confining their service to the limits of said State or Territory, or their vicinities, beyond the number of ten thousand in the State of Missouri, and four thousand five hundred in the State of Maryland, heretofore authorized by the President of the United States, or Secretary of War, to be raised in said States. Sec. 4. And 60 it further enacted, That the second sectionof the act