United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/20th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 57
Chap. LVII.—An Act for the punishment of contraventions of the fifth article of the treaty between the United States and Russia.
Any one, a citizen of the United States or trading under their authority by virtue of the 5th article of treaty with Russia, of April 17, 1824, not permitted to sell to the natives on the north-west coast of America, &c., spirituous liquors.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That if any one, being a citizen of the United States, or trading under their authority, shall, in contravention of the stipulations entered into by the United States, with the Emperor of all the Russias, by the fifth article of the treaty, signed at St. Petersburg, on the seventeenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, sell, or cause to be sold, to the natives of the country on the north-west coast of America, or any of the islands adjacent thereto, any spirituous liquors, fire arms, or other arms, powder or munitions of war of any kind, the person offending shall be fined in a sum not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less than thirty days, nor more than six months.
Superior jurisdiction extended to the superior and circuit courts, in each of the territorial districts, in criminal cases.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the superior courts in each of the territorial districts, and the circuit courts and other courts of the United States, of similar jurisdiction in criminal causes, in each district of the United States, in which any offender against this act shall be first apprehended or brought for trial, shall have, and are hereby invested with, full power and authority to hear, try and punish, all crimes, offences and misdemeanors against this act; such courts proceeding therein in the same manner as if such crimes, offences and misdemeanors, had been committed within the bounds of their respective districts.
Approved, May 19, 1828.