United States v. Forty-Three Gallons of Whiskey

Citations

• 108 U.S. 491
• 2 S. Ct. 906
• 27 L. Ed. 803
• 1883 U.S. LEXIS 1058

Syllabus

<p>Indians — Internal Revenue — License—Spirituous Liquors — Treaties.</p> <p>The payment of a special internal revenue tax for selling liquors in a collection district does not authorize the licensee to introduce or to attempt to introduce spirituous liquors or wines into Indian country in violation of the act of June 30th, 1834, 4 Stat. 729, as amended by the act of March 15th, 1864, 13 Stat. 29, ’when an Indian treaty, ceding lands 'embraced within the territory covered by the license, provides that the laws of the United States then in force, or which might thereafter be enacted, prohibiting the introduction and sale of spirituous liquors in the Indian country, should be in full force and eifeet throughout the country ceded, till otherwise ordered by Congress or.the President. ■</p> <p>Same case in 93 U. S. 188, referred to..</p>