United States v. Mares
New Mexico Supreme Court
Appeal from the First Judicial District Court, before John R. McFie, Associate Justice. In a Territory Congress may legislate as a state does for its municipal organizations.
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Appeal from the First Judicial District Court, before John R. McFie, Associate Justice. In a Territory Congress may legislate as a state does for its municipal organizations. First National Bank of Brunswick v. Yankton, 101 U. S. 129; Insurance Co, v. 356 Bales of Cotton, 1 Peters, 511; Church Latter Day Saints v. United States, 136 U. S. pp. 1-63; Murphy v. Ramsey, 114 U. S. 15. In the exercise of its powers of sovereignty over the Territories, Congress lias power to enact legislation prohibiting the sale of liquor in toto. Endleman v. United States, 86 Fed. Rep. 456. The privilege of buying…
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE OOURT.
POPE, J.
This was a prosecution instituted by -the United States against the defendants, Mares and Santis-tevan, charging them with having violated the Act of Congress of January' 30, 1897, by the sale of intoxicants to certain Indians under the charge of an Indian agent of the United States. The stipulated facts upon which the case was disposed of in the court below and upon which it is here submitted disclose that the Indians to whom the intoxicants are alleged to have been sold or given were Taos Pueblo Indians, living and residing at the Pueblo of Taos and being…
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