Chapter XI. *to provide for the Appointment of a Superintendent of Indian Affairs in California.*March 3, 1852. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Appointment of a Superintendent of Indian affairs in California
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Chap. XI.— An Act *to provide for the Appointment of a Superintendent of Indian Affairs in California.*March 3, 1852. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Appointment of a Superintendent of Indian affairs in California.That the sixth section of an act approved May sixth, eighteen hundred and twenty-two, entitled “An act to amend an act entitled An act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers, 1822, ch. 58.approved the thirtieth March, eighteen hundred and two; ” also, the fifth section of an act approved May twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and twenty-THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 15, 19. 1852.3four, entitled “An act to enable the to hold treaties with certain1824, cb. 146. Indian tribes, and for other purposes, ” be and the same hereby are revived, and extended to the State of California, for the purpose of establishing a superintendency of Indian affairs for said State, and that the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, be, and he hereby is authorized to appoint a superintendent of Indian Affairs to reside in said State, who shall possess the same powers, and be subject His powers. to the same duties within his superintendency as belong to the Superintendent of Indian Affairs at St.
Louis, in the State of Missouri, with His duties. the power also of exercising administrative examination over all claims, and accounts and vouchers for disbursements, connected with Indian affairs in the said State of California, which shall be transmitted to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for final adjudication, and by him passed to the proper accounting officers of the treasury for settlement. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the said superintendent His salary.shall have an annual salary not exceeding four thousand dollars.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the said superintendent Clerk. shall be allowed a clerk, whose compensation for his services shall not exceed two thousand five hundred dollars per annum. Approved, March 3, 1852.