Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. CXV.—An Act defining the qualifications of voters in the territory of Arkansas.[1]
Qualification of voters.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That every free white male citizen of the United States of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have resided in the territory of Arkansas for the term of six months next preceding any general or special election, shall have the privilege of voting in the election district where he shall reside, and not elsewhere, for all elective officers of said territory.
Approved, May 31, 1832.
Statute Ⅰ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. CXXIII.—An Act making appropriations for Indian annuities, and other similar objects, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.
Appropriations for payment of annuities due to Indians and Indian tribes.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of three hundred and thirty-six thousand four hundred and five dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of the annuities due to the various Indians and Indian tribes hereinafter mentioned, including the sum of twenty-four thousand five hundred dollars, stipulated for education of Indian youths; twenty-five thousand four hundred and seventy dollars, stipulated for the expenses of blacksmiths, gunsmiths, millers, millwrights, agriculturists, and labourers employed on Indian service, and for furnishing salt, tobacco, iron, and steel, et cætera; and four thousand three hundred and sixty dollars for expenses of transportation and distribution of certain annuities and agricultural implements, not otherwise provided for, for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, that is to say:
To the Wyandot tribe, five thousand nine hundred dollars.
To the Wyandot, Munsee, and Delaware tribes, one thousand dollars.
To the Shawnee tribe, three thousand dollars, and sixty dollars for furnishing salt.
To the Shawnee and Seneca tribes, of Lewistown, one thousand dollars.
To the Delaware tribe, six thousand five hundred dollars, and one hundred dollars for furnishing salt.
To the Wea tribe, three thousand dollars.
To the Piankeshaw tribe, eight thousand dollars.
To the Kaskaskias tribe, one thousand dollars.
To the Ottawa tribe, five thousand three hundred dollars.
To the Ottawa and Missouri tribes, two thousand five hundred dollars, and fifteen hundred dollars for the expenses of blacksmiths’ tools and agricultural implements.
To the Chippewa tribe, three thousand eight hundred dollars; also, one thousand dollars for purposes of education, and two thousand dollars for the purchase of farming utensils and cattle, and the employment of persons to aid them in agriculture.
To the Chippewa, Ottawa, and Pattawatamie tribes, sixteen thousand dollars, and one hundred and twenty-five dollars for furnishing salt.
To the Pattawatamie tribe, sixteen thousand three hundred dollars, and one hundred dollars to Topenibe, principal chief; also, three thousand dollars for purposes of education, and two thousand five hundred and twenty dollars, for expenses of blacksmiths, millers, and agriculturists, and for furnishing salt, tobacco, iron, and steel.- ↑ Notes of the acts relating to the territory, afterwards the state of Arkansas, vol. iii. p. 493.
