Chapter XXXII. making appropriations for the Indian department, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine
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Chap. XXXII.— An Act making appropriations for the Indian department, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine. March 2, 1829. [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, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to wit: Superintendent of Indian af fairs at St. Louis, &c.Sub-agents.For pay of the superintendent of Indian affairs at St. Louis, and the several Indian agents, as authorized by law, thirty-one thousand dollars.
For pay of sub-agents, as allowed by law, fifteen thousand one hundred dollars. Presents.1802, ch. 13.For presents to Indians, as authorized by the act of one thousand eight hundred and two, fifteen thousand dollars. Interpreters.For pay of Indian interpreters and translators, employed at the several superintendencies and agencies, eighteen thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. Gun and blacksmiths.For pay of gun and blacksmiths, and their assistants, employed within the several superintendencies and agencies for the benefit of the Indians, under treaty provisions and orders of the Department of War, nineteen thousand four hundred dollars.
Iron, steel, &c.For iron, steel, coal, and other expenses attending the gun and blacksmith shops, five thousand dollars. Transports and distribution of annuities.For expense of transportation and distribution of Indian annuities, nine thousand five hundred dollars. Support of Indians on certain occasions.For expense of provisions for the Indians at the distribution of annuities, while on visits of business with the different superintendents and agents, and when specially assembled on public business, ten thousand dollars.
Expense of Indian deputations, &c.For expense, attending the visits of such Indian deputations to the seat of government as it may be deemed necessary to authorize, five thousand dollars. TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II Ch. 33, 34. 1829. 353 For expenses incurred by the marshal of the Michigan territory, andExpenses prosecuting Winnebagoes, at Prairie du Chien. authorized by the War Department, in conducting the prosecution against the Winnebago Indians at Prairie du Chien, in one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For contingencies of Indian department, twenty-two thousand fiveContingencies, Indian Department. hundred and fifty dollars. For expenses incurred by the exploring party of Indians under theKennedy’s exploring party.1828, ch. 124. control of Captain Kennerly, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, in addition to the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, heretofore appropriated, the sum of seven thousand one hundred sixty-eight dollars and thirteen cents. For the purpose of purchasing such reservations of land as are yetPurchase of Indian reservations in North Carolina. claimed by Indians, or Indian countrymen, within the limits of the state of North Carolina, by virtue of treaties made by the United States with the Cherokee Indians, the sum of twenty thousand dollars, which sum, or such part thereof as may be found necessary, shall be applied, under the directions of the President of the United States, to the purpose aforesaid, and to no other purpose whatever.
To enable the President of the United States to extinguish the titleTo extinguish title of Delawares in Ohio, &c. of the Delaware Indians to their reservations in Ohio, and to aid them in their removal west of the Mississippi, under the provisions of the treaty of St. Mary’s in eighteen hundred and eighteen, six thousand dollars. For compensation to the Indians in Ohio, for depredations committedCompensation for depredations committed on Indians in Ohio. upon their property by white citizens, under the intercourse law, one thousand five hundred and thirty-nine dollars and twenty-five cents.
Approved, March 2, 1829.