Chapter VII. making an additional appropriation for the suppression of Indian hostilities, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven
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Chap. VII.— An Act making an additional appropriation for the suppression of Indian hostilities, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.Oct. 16, 1837. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United $1,600,000 appropriated, under direction of Secretary of War, conformably to acts 19th March and 2d July, 1836, ch. 44, 254, and acts therein referred to. States of America in Congress assembled,* That the further sum of one million six hundred thousand dollars shall be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to defray any expenses which have been or may be incurred, in preventing or suppressing the hostilities of any Indians: to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, conformably to the acts of Congress of the nineteenth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and the second of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and of the acts therein referred to.
Approved, October 16, 1837.