Ohio and Mississippi rivers from Pittsburg to New Orleans, in removing the obstructions in the channels at the shoal places and ripples, and by such other means as may be deemed best for the deepening of the channels of the Ohio river, which said sum shall be expended under the direction of the President of the United States, by the superintendent appointed to execute said works of improvement;Sum expended under direction of the President of the United States. and the President is hereby authorized and required to take bond with approved security in fifty thousand dollars conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties required of him under such instructions as may be given him for the improvement of the navigation of said rivers, and that an officer of engineers be associated with said superintendent, with authority to suspend the operation of any work, or payment of any account, until the order of the President is received.
Road in Arkansas.To open a road from Washington, in Arkansas territory, to Jackson, in said territory, fifteen thousand dollars.
Approved, March 2, 1831.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. LIX.—An Act making appropriation 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 the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one:
School.For the annual support of a school for the education of Indian youth, as stipulated for by the sixth article of the treaty of the fifth August, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, with the Chippewa tribe of Indians, one thousand dollars.
Annuity of Pattawatamies.For the payment of the annuity of two thousand dollars, and also the sum of two thousand dollars for education, as stipulated for by the third article of the treaty of the sixteenth October, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, with the Pattawatamies, the annual sum of four thousand dollars.
A blacksmith, &c.For the annual support of a blacksmith and miller, and for furnishing, annually, one hundred and sixty bushels of salt, under the same treaty, one thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.
Annuity.For the payment of the permanent and limited annuities provided for by the second article of the treaty with the Pattawatamies of the twentieth of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, annually the sum of three thousand dollars.
Tobacco, &c.For tobacco, iron, steel, education, annuity to the principal chief, and employment of labourers, by same article, one thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars.
Annuity.For payment of permanent annuity under the fourth article of the treaty with the Miamies of the twenty-third of October, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Iron, &c.For iron, steel, tobacco and labourers, by same article, one thousand one hundred dollars.
Poor, &c.For support of the poor and infirm, and for education, under the sixth article of said treaty, two thousand dollars.
Dwight mission, &c.For payment of the expenses incurred in the erection of buildings and improvements at the Dwight mission establishment, by the society engaged in instructing Cherokee children, according to the fifth article of the treaty with the Cherokee Indians, west of the Mississippi, of the sixth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, eleven thousand six hundred and fifteen dollars, the said society agreeing and stipulating to expend the amount so paid in the erection of other buildings