duty of the accounting officer, if demanded by the party, his agent, or attorney, to report, forthwith, to the agent of the Treasury Department, the balance due; and it shall be the duty of the said agent, within sixty days thereafter, to order suit to be commenced against such delinquent and his sureties.
Approved, May 26, 1824.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. CL.—An Act appropriating a sum of money to Benjamin Huffman, of the state of Indiana.
500 dollars to be paid Benjamin Huffman.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Benjamin Huffman the sum of five hundred dollars, to enable him to regain his son, Peter Hoffman [Huffman] who was taken a captive by hostile Indians during the late war: Proviso. Provided, That the said Benjamin Huffman shall previously give bond with sufficient security, to be approved of by the Secretary of the Treasury, conditioned upon the said Huffman’s rendering to the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department, correct accounts of his expenditure of the whole or any part of the said sum of money for the sole purpose of regaining the possession of his son aforesaid; and that the said Huffman shall pay any balance that may remain in his hands after the expenditure provided for as aforesaid, into the treasury of the United States.
To be paid out of the treasury.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the aforesaid sum shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, May 26, 1824.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. CLI.—An Act making appropriations to carry into effect certain Indian treaties.
Specific 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 the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, that is to say:
For carrying into effect so much of the fourth article of the treaty of the eighth of January, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, between the United States and the Creek nation, as relates to the compensation due to the citizens of Georgia, by the Creek nation, the appropriation heretofore made for that object being exhausted, the sum of twenty-three thousand dollars.
For the payment of the annuity to the Creek nation, as provided for by the same article of said treaty, the sum of sixteen thousand dollars annually, for five years, and the sum of ten thousand dollars, annually, for six years thereafter.
For implements of husbandry and stock of cattle and hogs, agreeably to the stipulation contained in the third article of the treaty with the Florida Indians, of the eighteenth September, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, the sum of six thousand dollars.
For the payment of the annuity to the Florida Indians, as provided for by the third article of said treaty, the sum of five thousand dollars, annually, for twenty years.
For the expense of rations to be furnished to said Indians, agreeably to the fifth article of said treaty, the sum of sixty-five thousand seven hundred dollars.
For compensation for improvements that may be abandoned by said