Endleman v. United States

MORROW, Circuit Judge.

It is enacted, in section 14 of the act of May 17, 1884, providing a civil government for Alaska (23 Stat. 24, 28), that “the importation, manufacture, and sale of intoxicating liquors in said district except for medical, mechanical and scientific purposes is hereby prohibited under the penalties which are provided in section nineteen hundred and fifty five of the Revised Statutes for the wrongful importation of distilled spirits. And the president of the United States shall make such regulations as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this section.” By section…