Chapter XXVI. to provide hereafter for the payment of six thousand dollars annually to the Seneca Indians, and for other purposes
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Chap. XXVI.— An Act to provide hereafter for the payment of six thousand dollars annually to the Seneca Indians, and for other purposes. Feb. 19, 1831. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled*, Secretary of War authorized to pay 6,000 dollars annually, &c. That the proceeds of the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, being the amount placed in the hands of the President of the United States, in trust, for the Seneca tribe of Indians, situated in the state of New York, be hereafter passed to the credit of the Indian appropriation fond; and that the Secretary of War be authorized to receive and pay over to the Seneca tribe of Indians, the sum of six thousand dollars, annually, in the way and manner as heretofore practised, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That the Secretary of War be authorized to receive and pay over to the Seneca tribe of Indians, the sum of two thousand six hundred and fourteen dollars and forty cents, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, on account of the deficiency, by that amount, in the sum paid over to said Indians the last year. Approved, February 19, 1831.