Chapter LVI. making appropriations for the Indian Department for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three
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Chap. LVI.— An Act making appropriations for the Indian Department for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three. March 2, 1833.[Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled*, Appropriations for the Indian department. That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Indian department for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, viz:
For the salary of the commissioner of Indian affairs, three thousand dollars. For the pay of the superintendent of Indian affairs at St. Louis, and the several Indian agents, as established by law, twenty-six thousand dollars. For the pay of sub-agents, as established by law, seventeen thousand dollars. For presents to Indians, as authorized by the act of one thousand eight hundred and two, fifteen thousand dollars. For pay of Indian interpreters and translators employed in the several superintendencies and agencies, twenty thousand dollars.
For the pay of gunsmiths and blacksmiths, and their assistants, employed within the several superintendencies and agencies, under treaty provisions, and the orders of tire War Department, sixteen thousand dollars. For iron, steel, coal, and other expenses attending the gunsmiths and blacksmiths’ shops, five thousand dollars. For expenses of transportation and distribution of Indian annuities, nine thousand five hundred dollars. For expenses of provisions for Indians at the distribution of annuities, while on visits of business with the different superintendents and agents, and when assembled on public business, eleven thousand eight hundred dollars.
For expense of building houses for Indian agents, blacksmiths’ shops, and for repairs of the same, when required, in the several agencies, two thousand dollars. For contingencies of die Indian Department, twenty thousand dollars. For supplying the deficiency in the appropriation for the compensation of commissioners, and other expenses attending the adjustment of boundaries under the treaty of Butte des Morts, contained in the act of1830, ch. 99. twentieth May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, making appropriations to carry into effect the said treaty, five hundred and fourteen dollars and sixty-two cents.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That the following sums, being unexpended balances of former appropriations, be, and the same are hereby, re-appropriated to the several objects of the original appropriations, respectively, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, viz: for tire exchange of land with the Indians, and for their removal west of the Mississippi, by act of twenty-eighth May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, two hundred and eighty dollars and six cents.
For defraying the expenses of an expedition fitted out, consisting of the militia of Georgia and Florida, for the suppression of aggressions by the Indians on their frontiers, three thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine dollars and eighty-six cents. For carrying into effect a treaty with the Winnebagoes, by act of632TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 57. 1833. twenty-fifth March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, the following sums, viz: For payment of claims provided for by [the] fourth article, one hundred and fifty-eight dollars and seventy-two cents.
For expense of surveying the boundaries, nine hundred and forty-five dollars and forty-six cents. For carrying into effect the treaty of twenty-ninth July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, with the Chippeways, Ottoways, and Pattawatamies, by act of twenty-fifth March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, for the expense of surveying the boundaries, six hundred and seventeen dollars and ten cents. For carrying into effect a treaty with the Choctaw Indians, of eleventh October, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, by act of second March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, the balance re-appropriated thirtieth April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, sixteen thousand and three dollars and forty-three cents.
For defraying the expenses of holding a treaty with the Cherokees for the purpose of extinguishing their claim to as much land as will be necessary for a canal to connect the Highwassee and Canasaga with each other, by act of second March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, the balance re-appropriated thirtieth April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, two thousand four hundred and fifty-nine dollars and nineteen cents. Approved, March 2, 1833.