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12. And be it further enacted, That no 19 thority of the United States, in some one of the three next adjoining states or districts, to be proceeded against in due course of law: Provided, that no person, apprehended by military force as aforesaid, shall be detained longer than five days after the arrest, and before removal. And all officers and soldiers who may have any such person or persons in custody, shall treat them with all the humanity which the circumstances will possibly permit; and every officer and soldier who shall be guilty of maltreating any such person, while in custody, shall suffer such punishment as a court martial shall direct.

Andrew A. ] 20. Superintendent of Indian Trade April 21, 1806 This law of 1806 continued the system of government trading houses begun in 1796. It also authorized a superintendent of Indian trade to direct the business. The office of superintendent was held by two men, John Mason (1806–16) and Thomas L. McKenney (1816–22), until it was abolished in 1822. prescribe; and every such agent shall take an oath or affirmation, faithfully to execute the trust committed to him; and that he will not, directly or indirectly, be concerned or interested in any trade, commerce or barter, but on the public account, and he shall render an account quarter yearly to the superintendent of Indian trade, of all money, goods, and other property whatsoever, which shall be transmitted to him, or which shall come into his hands, or for which, in good faith he ought to account; and he shall transmit duplicates of his accounts to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States.

But commerce with our Indian neighbors, prosecuted upon a contracted scale, and upon the principles of commercial profit, would tend not only to diminish the influence of the Government with them, but could not fail entirely to alienate their affections from it. A period has arrived when the trade must be greatly extended, or entirely abandoned to individual enterprise. To reserve the trade in the hands of the Government, whilst the wants of the Indians are but partially supplied, would be to make them feel its influence only in their privations and wretchedness.

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