Chapter LXIV. making appropriations for the Indian department for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one
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Chap. LXIV.— An Act making appropriations for the Indian department for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one. 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 appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, for the Indian department, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, viz: Superintendent of Indian affairs.For pay of the superintendent of Indian affairs at St.
Louis and the several Indian agents, as authorized by law, twenty-nine thousand five hundred dollars. For pay of sub-agents, as authorized by law, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars. For presents to Indians, as authorized by the act of one thousand 1302, ch. 13.eight hundred and twelve, [two] fifteen thousand dollars. Interpreters, &c.For pay of Indian interpreters and translators employed at the several superintendencies and agencies, twenty-one thousand five hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Gun-smiths, &c.For pay of gun and blacksmiths, and their assistants, employed within the superintendencies and agencies, under the treaty provisions and the orders of the Secretary of War, eighteen thousand three hundred and forty dollars. Iron, &c.For iron, steel, coal, and other expenses attending the gun and blacksmith’s shops, five thousand four hundred and twenty-six dollars. Transportation, &c.For expense of transportation and distribution of Indian annuities, nine thousand nine hundred and fifty-nine dollars.
Provisions.For expense of provisions for Indians at the distribution of annuities, while on visits of business, with the different superintendents and agents, and when assembled on business, eleven thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars. Contingencies.For contingencies of the Indian department, twenty thousand dollars. Boundary lines.For expenses incurred in surveying the north-western boundary lines of the Miami and Pattawatamie cessions by treaties of sixteenth October, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, and twenty-third October, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, two hundred and twenty-seven dollars.
For surveying and dividing the reservation granted to the half-breed Sacs and Foxes by the treaty of fourth August, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, two thousand dollars. Depredations.For the payment of sundry claims for Indian depredations, heretofore allowed at the Department of War, one thousand three hundred dollars. Emigration, &c.For payments made for provisions and necessary assistance to Indians emigrating to the west, and to those tribes now settled on or near the Kansas river, west of the Missouri, in addition to the appropriation heretofore Act of May 9, 1828, ch. 47.made for that object by act of ninth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight, three thousand five hundred and sixty-two dollars, eighty-six cents.
TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 65. 1831. 471 For provisions and other assistance to Indians removing to the west from Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri, required in one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, five thousand dollars. For building houses for Indian agents, sub-agents, blacksmith’s shopsHouses, &c. in all the several agencies, seven thousand dollars. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That the following sums, carried to the surplus fund, at the commencement of the present year, be, and the same are hereby appropriated, viz;
For additional expense at the Red river agency, per act of ninth May,Red river agency.1828, ch. 47.Creek title. 1924, ch. 151. 1828, ch. 21. one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, thirteen hundred dollars. For extinguishment of the title of the Creeks to laud in Georgia, per act twenty-sixth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, balance re-appropriated twenty-first March, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, four thousand nine hundred and eighty-nine dollars and fifty-seven cents.
For claims against the Osages, by citizens of the United States, perOsage claims.1828, ch. 21. act third March, eighteen hundred and nineteen, balance re-appropriated twenty-first March, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, eight hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents. For extinguishment of the claims of the Cherokees to their lands inCherokee title.1828, ch. 47. Georgia, per act ninth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, forty-six thousand one hundred and four dollars and fifty cents.
For carrying into effect the treaty concluded with the Creeks, fifteenthCreek treaty.1828, ch. 94.1819, ch. 87. November, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, per act twenty-fourth May, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, four thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven dollars. For carrying into effect the treaty of sixth May, eighteen hundred andCherokee treaty.1828, ch. 94. twenty-eight, with the Cherokee Indians, for their removal, &c., from Georgia, per act twenty-fourth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, fifty-nine thousand one hundred and thirty-four dollars and nineteen cents.
For expense of Indian delegations to explore the country west of theExploration. 1828, ch.94. Mississippi, per act twenty-fourth May, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, one hundred and fifty-nine dollars. For running the Indian boundary line in Florida, per act twenty-sixthBoundary line.1824, ch. 151. May, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, one hundred and thirty-five dollars and forty-nine cents. For purchase of Creek and Cherokee reservations, per act second [third]Creek and Cherokee reservations.1823, ch. 26.Treating with Choc. and Chic. 1826, ch. 110.
March, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, twenty-one hundred dollars. For expense of treating with the Choctaws and Chickasaws, for extinguishment of their title to lands within the limits of Mississippi, per act twentieth May, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, six hundred and fifty-eight dollars. Approved, March 2, 1831.