brass kettles, and for tobacco, ten thousand seven hundred and twenty-four dollars and seventy-five cents.
Transportation.For expense of transportation of those articles, two thousand dollars.
Property of emigrants.For payment for property which may be abandoned by Cherokees emigrating from Georgia, five thousand dollars.
Expense of emigration.For expense of emigration, being ten dollars per head, five thousand dollars.
Provisions for emigrants.For one year’s provisions for emigrants, fifteen thousand dollars.
Gratuity to emigrants.For gratuity of ten dollars to each emigrant, as per eighth article of the treaty, five thousand dollars.
Appraisers of property abandoned.For compensation of appraisers of property abandoned by emigrants, as provided in eighth article of said treaty, and of such other persons as it may be necessary to employ in executing the provisions of said article, six thousand five hundred dollars.
Improvements abandoned by Cherokees of Arkansas.For compensation for improvements which may be abandoned by the Cherokees of Arkansas, as is provided in the fourth article of said treaty, estimating for one thousand heads of families, thirty-seven thousand dollars.
Appraisers of property, and expenses of removal of aged, infirm Indians.For compensation of appraisers of property so abandoned, in pursuance of same article, and for expenses of removal of aged and infirm Indians, five thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums hereby appropriated, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 2, 1829.
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Chap. LI.—An Act making appropriations for the public buildings, and other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be appropriated and paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the following purposes, respectively, to wit:
Repairs, &c. of capitol.For repairs and other work necessary to be done on and about the capitol and its enclosures, eighteen thousand seven hundred and sixty-two dollars and sixty-three cents.
Lamps, capitol square.For erecting fourteen additional lamps in or around capitol square, two hundred and ten dollars.
Maintaining lamps.For keeping lighted twenty-four lamps in or around said square, six hundred and five dollars.
Fence and gate.For erecting an iron rail fence, and central gate, on that part of the public ground west of the capitol which adjoins the circular walk, twenty-eight hundred dollars.
Portico to President’s house.To complete the north front of the President’s house, according to the original plan, by erecting a portico, twenty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty-nine dollars and twenty-five cents.
Work on and about President’s house.For work to be done on and about the President’s house and enclosures, six thousand three hundred and sixty-one dollars and eighty-six cents.
Furnishing President’s house.For furnishing the President’s house under the direction of the President of the United States, fourteen thousand dollars.
Purchase of square 249.For the purchase and enclosure of the square numbered two hundred and forty-nine, on the plan of the city, eight thousand dollars.
Engine companies.For repairs and expenses of the fire apparatus of the Columbia and Franklin Engine Companies, six hundred and forty dollars.
Statues, front of capitol.To enable the President of the United States to contract with Luigi Persico, to execute two statues in front of the capitol, four thousand dollars.
Sculpture in capitol.For balance of compensation to N. Gevelot for sculpture in the capitol, seven hundred and fifty dollars.