Chapter LIX. making appropriation for carrying into effect certain Indian treaties
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Chap. LIX.— An Act making appropriation for carrying into effect certain Indian treaties. March 2, 1831.[Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled*, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one: For the annual support of a school for the education of Indian youth,School. as stipulated for by the sixth article of the treaty of the fifth August, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, with the Chippewa tribe of Indians, one thousand dollars.
For the payment of the annuity of two thousand dollars, and also theAnnuity of Pattawatamies. sum of two thousand dollars for education, as stipulated for by the third article of the treaty of the sixteenth October, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, with the Pattawatamies, the annual sum of four thousand dollars. For the annual support of a blacksmith and miller, and for furnishing,A blacksmith, &c. annually, one hundred and sixty bushels of salt, under the same treaty, one thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.
For the payment of the permanent and limited annuities provided forAnnuity. by the second article of the treaty with the Pattawatamies of the twentieth of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, annually the sum of three thousand dollars. For tobacco, iron, steel, education, annuity to the principal chief, andTobacco, &c. employment of labourers, by same article, one thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars. For payment of permanent annuity tinder the fourth article of theAnnuity. treaty with the Miamies of the twenty-third of October, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For iron, steel, tobacco and labourers, by same article, one thousandIron, &c. one hundred dollars. For support of the poor and infirm, and for education, under thePoor, &c. sixth article of said treaty, two thousand dollars. For payment of the expenses incurred in the erection of buildingsDwight mission, &c. and improvements at the Dwight mission establishment, by the society engaged in instructing Cherokee children, according to the fifth article of the treaty with the Cherokee Indians, west of the Mississippi, of the sixth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, eleven thousand six hundred and fifteen dollars, the said society agreeing and stipulating to expend the amount so paid in the erection of other buildings464TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 60. 1831. Cherokee improvements.and improvements for like purposes, in the country ceded to the Cherokees by the same treaty. For the payment in full of the value of improvements abandoned by the Cherokees of Arkansas who have emigrated from the country ceded by them by the treaty aforesaid, as assessed according to the provisions thereof, in addition to the balance which may remain of the sum of thirty-seven thousand dollars, appropriated March 2, 1829, ch. 50.by an act of March the second, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, forty-five thousand eight hundred and nine dollars and thirty-nine Rifles.cents.
For payment for five hundred rifles delivered in one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine for the emigrating Cherokees, including the cost of transportation, seven thousand dollars. Approved, March 2, 1831.