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Chap. XL.—An Act confirming the decisions of the Commissioners in favour of the claimants of land in the district of Kaskaskia.
Act of March 3, 1807, ch. 47, sec. 6.
Decisions of the commissioners affirmed.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all the decisions made by the commissioners appointed for the purpose of examining the claims of persons claiming lands in the district of Kaskaskia, in favour of such claimants, as entered in the transcript of decisions, bearing date the thirty-first day of December, eighteen hundred and nine, which have been transmitted by the said commissioners to the Secretary of the Treasury according to law, be, and the same are hereby confirmed.
Approved, May 1, 1810.
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Chap. XLI.—An Act making further appropriations for completing the Capitol, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in addition to the appropriations heretofore made, the following sums of money be, and the same are hereby appropriated, to be applied under the direction of the President of the United States, to the purposes herein after mentioned, that is to say:
Specific appropriations.For sculpture, and warming and ventilating the chamber of the House of Representatives, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For defraying the expense of completing the court-room, and the offices of the judiciary, on the east side, completing the Senate chamber and stopping the leaks in the roof of the north wing of the Capitol, twenty thousand dollars.
For repairs to the President’s house and offices, five thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it be the duty of the superintendent of the city of Washington, prior to any farther advances of money being made, to call for all claims now due on account of materials furnished or work done in the public buildings, in order that the same may be liquidated and paid.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the several sums of money hereby appropriated, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, May 1, 1810.
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Chap. XLIII.—An Act making appropriations for carrying into effect certain Indian treaties.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of carrying into effect a treaty between the United States and the Delaware, Potawatamies, Miamies, Eel river tribes of Indians, concluded at Fort Wayne, on the thirtieth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and nine, the sum of one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars is hereby appropriated, to be paid to the said tribes annually, as follows:
Specific appropriations.To the Delawares, five hundred dollars.
To the Miamies, five hundred dollars.
To the Eel river tribe, two hundred and fifty dollars.
To the Potawatamies, five hundred dollars.
Which several annuities shall be permanent.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That for carrying into effect a separate article entered into between the United States and the Miamies and Eel river tribes of Indians, at Fort Wayne, on the thirtieth of Sep-