Removing the Cherokees from country east of the Mississippi.For removing such portion of the Cherokees as may emigrate during the present year from the Cherokee country east of the Mississippi, to their new country west of that river, including subsistence on the route and for one year after their arrival west of the Mississippi, and all other expenses attending their emigration, sixty-eight thousand three hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Money in the treasury under act of February 19, 1831, ch. 26, to be subject to payment of Indian annuities.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the sum of one hundred and twelve thousand eight hundred and fifty-three dollars, and seventy-eight cents, paid into the treasury under the provisions of the act of February nineteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, entitled “An act to provide hereafter for the payment of six thousand dollars annually to the Seneca Indians, and for other purposes,” and now standing to the credit of the Indian contingencies, shall be applied to, and be subject to, the payment of the annuities authorized to be paid by the provisions of this act:Proviso. Provided, That the claim of the Seneca Indians against the United States, for the said sum of money, shall continue of the same force and effect as it now is.
Creek followers of General McIntosh, who emigrated under treaty of January 24, 1826.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the sum of eleven thousand one hundred and sixty dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be distributed to the Creek Indians, friends and followers of General McIntosh, who emigrated under the treaty of January twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, and who have not received their proportions of the sums stipulated to be paid under the ninth article of the said treaty.
Cherokee annuities to be paid to chiefs, &c.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the annuities to the Cherokees, for which appropriations are made in this act, shall be paid to the chiefs of the tribe, or to such person or persons as the tribe shall appoint.
Approved, June 26, 1834.
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Chap. LXXV.—An Act for the relief of the town of Fayetteville, in the territory of Arkansas.
Whereas, the seat of justice of Washington county, in the territory of Arkansas, was located and called Fayetteville prior to the public surveys being made, and when the lands were surveyed, the said town fell on section number sixteen, which, by law, is reserved for the use of schools; and whereas the said town is situated on the south half of the north-east quarter, and the north half of the south-east quarter, of section number sixteen, in township number sixteen, north of range number thirty-west of the fifth principal meridian, therefore,—
School lands to be set apart in lieu of section sixteen.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the trustee of the school lands in and for township number sixteen, north of range thirty, west of the fifth principal meridian in the territory of Arkansas, be, and he is hereby, authorized to select and have set apart for the use of schools in said township, one entire section of any of the unimproved lands in said township in lieu of section number sixteen; and when the said trustee shall make his selection, he shall file the same in the office of the register of the Fayetteville land office, and the land so selected shall be reserved from sale, and set apart for the use of schools; and that section number sixteen, in said township, shall be subject to sale and entry as other public lands now are.
Lands granted in trust for the county.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the south half of the north-east quarter, and the north half of the south-east quarter, of section number sixteen, in township number sixteen, north of range number thirty, west of the fifth principal meridian, in the territory of Arkansas, be, and is hereby, granted to Lewis Evans, Larkin Newton, Samuel