They and their families traveling through this country under these circumstances often have with them small quantities of liquor for medical purposes. However ignorant they may be of the law. if they introduce one gill of liquor of any description into this Indian country they incur the penalty of this act and subject their property. as I have said. to confiscation. All will agree that if an emigrant with his family. under the circumstances stated. should introduce a small quantity of liquor for the purposes stated into the Indian country. the act would not constitute the evil which Congress undertook to suppress in the passage of these intercourse laws. Yet. if it be held that such introduction was not a violation of the statute. the gates would be thrown wide open for all sorts of imposition and subterfuge to get liquor into the Indian country. Hence it is that the courts have held. and properly held. that every act of this character is a violation of these intercourse laws.
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