1899 Annotated Statutes of the Indian Territory, at 757, ch. 136, § 4345

1899 Annotated Statutes of the Indian Territory, at 757, ch. 136, § 4345

Abstract

Every person other than an Indian, who within the Indian country, purchases or receives of any Indian in the way of barter, trade or pledge, a gun, trap or other article commonly used in hunting, any instrument of husbandry, or cooking utensils of the kind commonly obtained by the Indians in the intercourse with the white people, or any article of clothing except skins or furs, shall be liable to penalty of fifty dollars.

Summary

Prohibits non-Indians in Indian country from purchasing certain goods, including guns and hunting equipment, from Indians, punishable by a $50 penalty. Traders who unlawfully sell arms or ammunition in areas occupied by hostile or uncivilized Indians can lose their trading rights, while non-Indians who hunt or trap in treaty-protected tribal lands without authorization can forfeit their guns, traps, ammunition, and game and face a $500 penalty.

Law Text

§ 4345 (R. S. 2135). Every person other than an Indian, who within the Indian country, purchases or receives of any Indian in the way of barter, trade or pledge, a gun, trap or other article commonly used in hunting, any instrument of husbandry, or cooking utensils of the kind commonly obtained by the Indians in the intercourse with the white people, or any article of clothing except skins or furs, shall be liable to penalty of fifty dollars. § 4346 (R. S. 2136). If any trader, his agent, or any person acting for or under him, shall sell any arms or ammunition at his trading-post or other place within any district or country occupied by uncivilized or hostile Indians, contrary to the rules and regulations of the secretary of the interior, such trader shall forfeit his right to trade with the Indians, and the secretary shall exclude such trader, and the agent, or other person so offending, from the district or country so occupied. § 4347 (R. S. 2137). Every person, other than an Indian, who, within the limits of any tribe with whom the United States has existing treaties, hunts, or traps, or takes and destroys any peltries or game, except for subsistence in the Indian country, shall forfeit all the traps, guns, and ammunition in his possession, used or procured to be used for that purpose, and all peltries so taken; and shall be liable in addition to a penalty of five hundred dollars.