...reports that went largely unread. On June 30, 1834, Congress decreed, in an "Act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes and to preserve peace on the frontier," that "that part of the United States west of the Mississippi River and not within the states...

...United States may think proper to direct; five thousand dollars to satisfy claims for property taken by individuals of the said nation from the citizens of...States shall furnish to the said nation two sets of blacksmiths' tools, and men to work them, for the term of three years. ARTICLE 3. It is agreed by the...

...according to the provisions of the act, passed 30th March, 1802," entitled "An act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers." It would be useless to recapitulate the numerous provisions for the security and protection of the...

...beyond the Mississippi River. This recommendation was enacted into law by the Act to Regulate Trade and Intercourse with the Indian Tribes and to Preserve Peace on the Frontiers, and was designed to both guarantee lands to settlers, and to provide a permanent homeland where Indian...

...addition to so much and such parts of the acts of Congress of the United States enacted to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers as have been re-enacted and continued in force by the Confederate States, and as are not inconsistent...

...intercourse with the Indians.9 Two months later, on March 30, 1802, Congress passed "An Act to Regulate Trade and Intercourse with the Indian Tribes, and to Preserve Peace on the Frontiers," with no time limit on its extension; it remained the basic law governing Indian affairs until the revisions...

...theFormatwe Years, 88; Prucha, Documents of United States Indian Policy, 22. 4. "An Act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers" (1802), in Prucha, Documents of United States Indian Policy, 17-21. 5. Ibid., 24. 6. "An Act to amend...

...INDIAN TRADE AND INTERCOURSE ACT OF 1796 Act of May 19, 1796. (1 Stat. 469) An Act to Regulate Trade and Intercourse with the Indian Tribes, and to Preserve Peace on the Frontiers. and intercourse acts however it expanded upon some issues: defined "Indian Country", provided for the prohibition...

...provisions of the act passed thirtieth March, eighteen hundred and two, entitled" An act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers. Division of annuity to Cherokee nation: Art. 6. The contracting parties agree that the annuity to the...

...States," to punish crimes against the government, and especially the post office, and to "regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers." Although the district court saw no major cases of national importance, it did have to arbitrate two...