United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/22nd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 71
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Chap. LXXI.—An Act making appropriations in conformity with the stipulations of certain Indian treaties.
Appropriations for payment of annuities, &c. to certain 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 thirty-nine thousand and seventy-five dollars be appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be applied for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, to the several following objects specifically, namely:
For payment of the permanent annuity to the Chippewa, Ottawa, and Pattawatamie Indians, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, sixteen thousand dollars.
For the expense of salt for the same tribes, according to the treaty with them, one hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For payment of the annuity to the Winnebago Indians, eighteen thousand dollars.
For tobacco and salt for the same tribe, four hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For the support of blacksmiths’ shops, iron, and steel, three thousand dollars.
For the purchase of oxen, cart, and services of a man, at the portage of Ouisconson and Fox river, according to treaty, three hundred and sixty-five dollars.
For the transportation and other expenses of the annuities aforesaid, one thousand one hundred and sixty dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there be further appropriated, to be paid out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the following sums, namely:
Payment of missionary property.For the payment of the missionary property, held by the Baptist denomination, at the St. Joseph’s of Lake Michigan, as valued by agents appointed for that purpose in pursuance of the fifth article of the treaty of St. Joseph’s, of twentieth September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, five thousand seven hundred and twenty-one dollars and fifty cents. Payment of the claims of the Cherokees for improvements.For payment of the claims of the Cherokees, for improvements abandoned under the treaty of eighth July, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, and the convention of twenty-seventh February, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, four thousand five hundred and sixty-eight dollars.
Approved, April 20, 1832.