2d General Assembly, Illinois Territory, An Act Prohibiting Trade with the Indians (1813)
| dc.coverage.spatial | Illinois [Territory] | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-24T00:04:47Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-12T01:35:17Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-17T01:30:17Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1813 | |
| dc.description.abstract | An act prohibiting the trading with Indians, Sec. 2: Prohibited trading or bartering a gun or other article commonly use for hunting with tribes. Also prohibited any instrument of husbandry or cooking utensil, or clothing or horse. Violators forfeit the item and pay any sum not less than ten nor exceeding fifty dollars. | |
| dc.description.lawtext | Sec. 2. Be it further enacted that if any person or persons shall purchase or receive of any Indian in the way of Barter or trade a Gun or other article commonly used in hunting, or any instruments of Husbandry or cooking utensil - or clothing or Horse shall forfeit any sum not exceeding fifty Dollars nor less than ten to the use of the Territory to be recovered as is directed in the former section, half to the use of the Territory and the other to the informer - Provided that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to restrain any person from trading with Lewis Decoigne the chief of the Maskaskia Indians for any article that he may Deem necessary in behalf of said tribe nor so as to impair or weaken the powers and authority that now are, or at any time hereafter may be vested in the Governor or other person, as superintendants or agent of Indian affairs, or Commissioner Plenipotentiary for treating with Indians within this Territory. This act to be in full force from and after the first day of January next. | |
| dc.description.summary | Prohibited trading or bartering a gun or other article commonly use for hunting with tribes. Violators forfeit the item and pay any sum not less than ten nor exceeding fifty dollars. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/3763 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedby | https://www.ilsos.gov/departments/archives/online_exhibits/100_documents/1813-prohibit-trade-nat-american-more.html | |
| dc.subject | TRANSFER - DANGEROUS PERSONS | |
| dc.title | 2d General Assembly, Illinois Territory, An Act Prohibiting Trade with the Indians (1813) |