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1792 George Washington Broadside.

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1792 George Washington Broadside.
<B>1792 George Washington Broadside.</B></I> Three pages, 7.5" x 12.5", Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 5, 1792. Highly desirable subject matter in this printed broadside, in part: "...no person shall be permitted to carry on trade or intercourse with the Indian tribes...as the President of the United States shall authorize to grant licenses for that purpose...And be it further enacted that every person, who shall attempt to trade with the Indian tribes, or shall be found in the Indian country, with such merchandize [sic] in his possession, as are usually vended to the Indians, without lawful license, shall forfeit all the merchandize, offered for sale to the Indians, or found in his possession, in the Indian Country, and shall moreover, be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, and to imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, at the discretion of the court, in which the trial shall be..." The act does show protection for the Indians as well. "And be it further enacted, that if any citizen or inhabitant of the United States, or of either of the territorial districts of the United States, shall go to own, settlement, or territory belonging to any nation or tribe of the Indians, and shall there commit murder, robbery, larceny, trespass or crime, against the person or property of any friendly Indian or Indians, which if committed within the jurisdiction of any state, or within the jurisdiction of either of the said districts, such offender shall be subject to the same punishment, as if the offense had been committed within the state or district, to which he or she may belong, against a citizen thereof." The Act also throws out the offer of aid, "And be it further enacted, that in order to promote civilization among the friendly Indian tribes, and to secure the continuance of their friendship, it shall and may be lawful for the President of the United States, to cause them to be furnished with useful domestic animals, and implements of husbandry, and also to furnish them with goods or money, in such proportions as he shall judge proper..." Signed in print by Jonathan Trumbull, John Adams and George Washington, who approved it March 1, 1793. Federal Indian policy can be divided into a number of chronological periods. The Trade and Intercourse Acts sought to keep the natives segregated from the rest of the population and control the key areas of interaction through a licensing system for trade and the appointment of federal Indian agents to administer and enforce the Acts. But the extensive frontier and the Westward movement were too powerful and broad to or control. Thus in 1830 Congress passed the Removal Act that authorized the President to remove (ideally voluntarily) tribes east of the Mississippi River to a large "Indian Country" in the West. Very fine condition, with partial clean separation between the pages along the spine.
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