United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/20th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 47
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Chap. XLVII.—An Act making appropriations for the Indian department, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.
Sums appropriated.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, to wit:
Superintendent of Indian affairs.For pay of the superintendent of Indian affairs at St. Louis, and the several Indian agents, as authorized by law, thirty-one thousand dollars.
Sub-agents.For the pay of sub-agents as established by law, fifteen thousand one hundred dollars. Presents to Indians.For presents to Indians, as authorized by act of one thousand eight hundred and two, fifteen thousand dollars.
Houses for sub-agents, &c.For houses for sub-agents, interpreters, and blacksmiths, at Peoria and Iowa sub-agencies; expenses of emigrating Indians; claims of Delawares, for horses taken by white men; holding councils for settlement of differences among Indian tribes, &c. within the superintendency of General Clark, as estimated for by him, fourteen thousand three hundred and twenty-four dollars.
Expenses of intercourse with the Indians within the Michigan territory, &c.For additional expense arising out of the recently extended intercourse with the Indians within the Michigan territory, and the establishment of a new sub-agency therein, for the Chippewas, high up Lake Superior, at La Point, or Michael’s Island, as recommended by Governor Cass, five thousand dollars.
Additional expenses for the removal of the Quapaws, &c.For additional expense at the Red river agency, on account of the removal of the Quapaws, and attaching them to that agency, agreeably to the late treaty with them, one thousand three hundred dollars.
Treaty with the Creek nation.
Act of May 20, 1826, ch. 110.
For aiding emigration of the Creek Indians.For expenses attending Indian agency established under the late treaty with the Creek nation, and an act of Congress of twentieth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, four thousand five hundred dollars.
For aiding the emigration of the Creek Indians, providing for them for the period of twelve months after their emigration, and for rendering them such assistance as the President of the United States may think proper, in their agricultural operations, for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of the existing treaty with the Creek nation of Indians, having relation to the aforesaid objects, fifty thousand dollars.
For carrying into effect articles of agreement and cession entered into on April 24, 1802, between the United States and the state of Georgia.And the sum of fifty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to enable the President of the United States to carry into effect the articles of agreement and cession, entered into on the twenty-fourth of April, one thousand eight hundred and two, between the United States and the state of Georgia, which sum of money, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be applied under the direction of the President of the United States, to the extinguishment of the claims of the Cherokee Indians, to all the lands which they occupy within the limits of said state.
Indian department.For contingencies in the Indian department, ninety-five thousand dollars.
Refunding to the state of North Carolina the amount expended by her, in extinguishing the title of certain Indians.For refunding to the state of North Carolina the amount expended by her in extinguishing the title of certain Indians of the Cherokee tribe, to reservations of land within the limits of said state, granted to them in fee simple, by treaties with the United States, in the years one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, and one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, the sum of twenty-two thousand dollars.
Sums appropriated, to be paid from the treasury.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums hereby appropriated, be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, April 28, 1828.