Chapter XXVI. making appropriations for the Indian department, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty
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Chap. XXVI.— An Act making appropriations for the Indian department, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty. Feb. 27, 1830. [Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, * Appropriation for Indian department. 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, viz:
For pay of the superintendent of Indian affairs at St. Louis, and thePay of superintendent at St. Louis, and Indian agents. several Indian agents, as authorized by law, twenty-nine thousand five hundred dollars. For pay of sub-agents, as authorized by law, nineteen thousand andPay of subagents. fifty dollars. For presents to Indians, as authorized by the act of one thousandPresents to Indians.1802, ch. 13. eight hundred and two, fifteen thousand dollars. For pay of Indian interpreters and translators employed at the severalPay of interpreters and translators. superintendencies and agencies, twenty-one thousand five hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For pay of gun and blacksmiths and their assistants, employed withinPay of gun and blacksmiths and assistants. the superintendencies and agencies, under treaty provisions and the orders of the Secretary of War, eighteen thousand three hundred and forty dollars. For iron, steel, coal, and other expenses attending the gun and blacksmith’sIron, steel, coal, &c. shop, five thousand four hundred and twenty-six dollars. For expense of transportation and distribution of Indian annuities,Transportation and distribution of annuities. nine thousand nine hundred and fifty-nine dollars.
For expense of provisions for Indians at the distribution of annuitiesProvisions for Indians at distribution of annuities, &c. while on visits of business with the different superintendents, and agents, and when assembled on business, eleven thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars. For contingencies of the Indian department, twenty thousand dollars.Contingencies. Approved, February 27, 1830.