Farrell v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 5 district ·

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1. “.That any person who shall sell, give away, dispose of, exchange, or barter any malt, spirituous, or vinous liquor,, including beer, ale, and wine, or any ardent or other intoxicating liquor of any kind whatsoever, or . any essence, extract, bitters, preparation, compound, composition, or any article whatsoever, under any name, label, or brand, which produces intoxication, to any Indian-to whom allotment of land has been made while the title to the same shall be held in trust by the Government, or to any Indian a ward of the Government under charge op any Indian superintendent, or agent, or any Indian, including mixed bloods, over whom the Government, through sits departments, exercises guardianship, ... - shall be ^punished by imprisonment for not less than sixty days, .and by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars for the first offense and not Jess than two hundred dollars for each offense thereafter.”

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