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![handle is hein.slavery/ussccases0138 and id is 1 raw text is: SUPREME COQURT.
SUNDRY. GooDs, WAREs AND MEtCHANDISeS, THE AMERICA,
COMPANY, CLA MAN1TS, PLAINT?FS IN EmoR -vs. THE UNrEis
STATES, DEFENDANTS I RREOR.
Whatever an-agent dois or says in reference to the.business in which he is at
.the mti°m~employed, and within the scope of his- authority, is done or sad by
the principal', and may be proed, as well in a criminal as a civil cdse, in likd
manner as if the evidence applied personally to the principal. [364]
Where tw&dr more personsare associated together for the same.illegal purpose,
any act or, declaration of one-of the parties.in referenee to ie conpon object,
and forming a part of the resgesta, may be given in evidence against the.
otheK.'. t365]
'The act' of 30th of Maroi'1802;-having d~scribed what should be considered as
the Indian country at that time, as well as at any future time Vh'en puichases
of territory should be -made, of the Indians; the -carrying of spirituous liquors
* into a territory'so purchased after March.1802, although the same sbould be at
the time frequented and inhabited exclusively by Indians, would not'be an
o!jece within the. meaning of the before mentioned ac'is of'congress, so as to.
sulject thegoods-of the traderfound in coifipany with those li;tiors, to seizure
and forfeiture. - ,[368]
--WRIT of error from the district court of the United
States. for the district of. Ohio.
In the district court of Ohio, 'the district attorney filed, ?n
behalf of the United Stafes, a libel or ihformation, stating
that ointhe twenty-thirddayof. Septdmber, in the year of
6ur lord one thousand eight hundred- and.t%;enty-foui, at
antd within the district of Indian.a: aforesaid,.one William H.
Watace,'a citizen of thd United States, and having alicense
and legal authority to trade with Indian tribes within -the
territoiy of theUnited State§, did take and carry into the'
Indian country, to wit,.the country lying, on the north or
west side'of the-ryer Tippecanoe; for the purpose of trading
vith. the'tribes of 'Indians,- sundry go'odsi wares, and mer-
chandises, enumerating the -same; that the. said Wallace
did, among the goods, wares and merchandises, carry into
the said Indian country a large quantity pf ardent spirits, to
wit, seven liegs of A'hiskey, and one *keg of shrub, for the
purpose of vending or distributing the same among the In-
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