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TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 161. 1834.

Citizens onlyto be licensed.

Proviso.

Foreigners toobtain passportsto go into theIndian country.

Indians onlyto barter withIndians.

No other per-sons than In-dians to trapin their limits.

Cattle not tobe driven forforage on In-dian lands.

Intruders maybe removed.

Settlers maybe driven off bymilitary force.

Purchases orgrants from In-dians invalid.

Proviso.

chandise offered for sale to the Indians, or found in his possession, andshall moreover forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That no license to trade with theIndians shall be granted to any persons except citizens of the UnitedStates : Provided, That the President shall be authorized to allow theemployment of foreign boatmen and interpreters, under such regulationsas he may prescribe.

Sec. 6, And be it further enacted, That if a foreigner shall go intothe Indian country without a passport from the War Department , thesuperintendent, agent, or sub-agent of Indian affairs, or from the officerof the United States commanding the nearest military post on the fron-tiers, or shall remain intentionally therein after the expiration of suchpassport, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of one thousand dollars; andsuch passport shall express the object of such person, the time he isallowed to remain, and the route he is to travel.

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That if any person other than anIndian shall, within the Indian country, purchase or receive of any Indian,in the way of barter, trade, or pledge, a gun, trap, or other article com-monly used in hunting, any instrument of husbandry or cooking utensilsof the kind commonly obtained by the Indians in their intercourse withthe white people, or any other article of clothing, except skins or furs, heshall forfeit and pay the sum of fifty dollars.

Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That if any person, other than anIndian, shall, within the limits of any tribe with whom the United States shall have existing treaties, hunt, or trap, or take and destroy, any peltriesor game, except lor subsistence in the Indian country, such person shallforfeit the sum of five hundred dollars, and forfeit all the traps, guns, andammunition in his possession, used or procured to be used for that pur-pose, and peltries so taken.

Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall drive, orotherwise convey any stock of horses, mules, or cattle, to range and feedon any land belonging to any Indian or Indian tribe, without the consentofsuch tribe,such person shall forfeit the sum of one dollar for each animalof such stock.

Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That the superintendent of Indianaffairs, and Indian agents and sub-agents, shall have authority to removefrom the Indian country all persons found therein contrary to law; andthe President of the United States is authorized to direct the militaryforce to be employed in such removal.

Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall make asettlement on any lands belonging, secured, or granted by treaty with theUnited States to any Indian tribe, or shall survey or shall attempt to surveysuch lands, or designate any of the boundaries by marking trees, or otherwise,such offender shall forfeit and pay the sum of one thousand dollars. Andit shall, moreover, be lawful for the President of the United States to takesuch measures, and to employ such military force, as he may judgenecessary to remove from the lands as aforesaid any such person as aforesaid.

Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That no purchase, grant, lease, orother conveyance of lands, or of any title or claim thereto, from any Indiannation or tribe of Indians, shall be of any validity in law or equity, unlessthe same be made by treaty or convention entered into pursuant to theconstitution. And if any person, not employed under the authority ofthe United States , shall attempt to negotiate such treaty or convention,directly or indirectly, to treat with any such nation or tribe of Indians,for the title or purchase of any lands by them held or claimed, such personshall forfeit and pay one thousand dollars: Provided, nevertheless, That itshall be lawful for the agent or agents of any state who may be presentat any treaty held with Indians under the authority of the United States ,in the presence and with the approbation of the commissioner or commis-