Chapter XLVII. making appropriations for the Indian Department for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four
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Chap. XLVII.— An Act making appropriations for the Indian Department for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.June 18, 1834. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Appropriations for the Indian department. States of America, in Congress assembled,* 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-four, viz:
For the salary of the commissioner of Indian affairs, three thousand Commissioner. dollars. For the salary of the clerks in the office of the commissioner, five Clerks. thousand dollars. For compensation to the messenger, seven hundred dollars.Messenger. For office contingencies, eight hundred dollars.Contingencies. 678TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 54. 1834. For pay of the superintendent of Indians affairs at St. Louis, and the Superintendent and agents. several Indian agents, as authorized by law, twenty-six thousand dollars.
For clerk in the office of superintendent of Indian affairs, one thousand Clerk. dollars. For pay of sub-agents, as allowed by law, sixteen thousand five hundred Sub-agents. dollars. For pay of interpreters and translators, employed at the several superintendencies Interpreters, &c. and agencies, eighteen thousand eight hundred dollars. For pay of gun and blacksmiths, and their assistants, employed within Gun and blacksmiths, &c. the several superintendencies and agencies under the orders of the War Department, six thousand four hundred and eighty dollars.
For presents to Indians, as authorized by the act of eighteen hundred Presents. Act of 1802, ch. 13, sec. 13. and two, fifteen thousand dollars. For the purchase of iron, steel, and coal, and for other expenses attending Iron, &c. the gun and blacksmith shops, one thousand four hundred and sixty-five dollars. For provisions for Indians at the distribution of annuities while on Provisions. visits of business with the different superintendents and agents, and when assembled on public business, eleven thousand eight hundred dollars.
For the necessary buildings required at the several agencies, and repairs Buildings. thereof, two thousand dollars. For contingencies of the Indian department, twenty thousand dollars.Contingencies. For holding a treaty with the Wyandot tribe of Indians, one thousand Holding treaty. dollars. Approved, June 18, 1834.