Palcher v. United States
District Court, D. Minnesota
On Writ of Error from the District Court. This action is brought up for review from the district court of the district of Minnesota on writ of error. The proceedings in the lower court were instituted under the provisions of section 21.40, Bev.
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On Writ of Error from the District Court. This action is brought up for review from the district court of the district of Minnesota on writ of error. The proceedings in the lower court were instituted under the provisions of section 21.40, Bev. St., which empowers certain United States officers to search for and seize any spirituous liquors or wines introduced or about to he introduced into the “Indian country,” and if any such he found to seize the same, and all the conveyances used in introducing the same, as well as all the goods, packages, and peltries of such persons so introducing the…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCrary, C. J.
The point most discussed on the hearing is one which was not brought to the attention of the court below, but which may nevertheless be raised here, as it goes to the question whether there is any statute of the United States now in force which locates and defines the extent or boundaries of the Indian country. The first section of the act of congress of June 30, 1831:, (4 St. 729,) defines the Indian country as follows: “All that part of the United States west of the Mississippi, and not within the states of Missouri and Louisiana, or the territory of Arkansas, and also that part of the…
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