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U.S. GOVERNMENT
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115TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115-703
TO REPEAL SECTION 2141 OF THE REVISED STATUTES TO REMOVE THE
PROHIBITION ON CERTAIN ALCOHOL MANUFACTURING ON INDIAN
LANDS
MAY 24, 2018.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of
the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 5317]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 5317) to repeal section 2141 of the Revised Statutes to
remove the prohibition on certain alcohol manufacturing on Indian
lands, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with-
out amendment and recommend that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 5317 is to repeal section 2141 of the Revised
Statutes to remove the prohibition on certain alcohol manufac-
turing on Indian lands.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
H.R. 5317 repeals an 1834 federal law prohibiting the establish-
ment and operation of alcohol distilleries in Indian Country.1 The
1834 law was one of the Indian Trade and Intercourse Acts enacted
in the 18th and 19th centuries. The purpose of these laws was to
regulate non-Indian interaction with individual Indians and Indian
tribes on Indian lands. While the operation of the Trade and Inter-
course Acts have been repealed or superseded by subsequent laws,
several of them-including the one prohibiting distilleries on In-
dian lands-remain in effect today.
The Indian Trade and Intercourse Acts2 reserved to the United
States the exclusive right to acquire Indian lands and to regulate
and restrict trade with tribes. The early-19th century acts were in-
125 U.S.C. §251 (R.S. 2141 derived from act of June 30, 1834, ch. 161, §21, 4 Stat. 732).
225 U.S.C. Ch. 5, 6.
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