§ 130. — Withholding of moneys or goods on account of intoxicating liquors.
[Laws in effect as of January 7, 2003]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 7, 2003 and December 19, 2003]
[CITE: 25USC130]
TITLE 25--INDIANS
CHAPTER 4--PERFORMANCE BY UNITED STATES OF OBLIGATIONS TO INDIANS
SUBCHAPTER II--DISBURSEMENT OF MONEYS AND SUPPLIES
Sec. 130. Withholding of moneys or goods on account of
intoxicating liquors
No annuities, or moneys, or goods, shall be paid or distributed to
Indians while they are under the influence of any description of
intoxicating liquor, nor while there are good and sufficient reasons
leading the officers or agents, whose duty it may be to make such
payments or distribution, to believe that there is any species of
intoxicating liquor within convenient reach of the Indians, nor until
the chiefs and headmen of the tribe shall have pledged themselves to use
all their influence and to make all proper exertions to prevent the
introduction and sale of such liquor in their country.
(R.S. Sec. 2087.)
Codification
R.S. Sec. 2087 derived from act Mar. 3, 1847, ch. 66, Sec. 3, 9
Stat. 203.
