---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 251"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "251"
heading: "Repealed. Pub. L. 115–304, § 1, Dec. 11, 2018, 132 Stat. 4401"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/251"
units:
  - "Chapter 6 — Government of Indian Country and Reservations"
  - "Subchapter II — Traffic in Intoxicating Liquors"
---

# [§251. Repealed. Pub. L. 115–304, § 1, Dec. 11, 2018, 132 Stat. 4401 — repealed]



## Notes

Section, R.S. § 2141, established a penalty of $1,000 for setting up or continuing a distillery for manufacturing ardent spirits and mandated the destruction of the distillery.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### No Effect on Taxation or State Authority To Regulate Alcohol Within State Borders

Pub. L. 115–304, § 2, Dec. 11, 2018, 132 Stat. 4401, provided that: No Effect on Taxation.—Nothing in section 1 [repealing this section] or the repeal made by section 1 shall affect State or Federal taxation. State Authority Unaffected.—Nothing in section 1 or the repeal made by section 1 shall diminish, enlarge, or otherwise affect a State’s authority to regulate the importation and sale of alcoholic beverages within its own borders, including State authority over the manufacture, distribution, transportation, or sale of intoxicating liquors.”