United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/23rd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 47
Chap. XLVII.—An Act making appropriations for the Indian Department for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.
Appropriations for the Indian department.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 they are hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Indian department for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, viz:
Commissioner.For the salary of the commissioner of Indian affairs, three thousand dollars.
Clerks.For the salary of the clerks in the office of the commissioner, five thousand dollars.
Messenger.For compensation to the messenger, seven hundred dollars.
Contingencies.For office contingencies, eight hundred dollars. Superintendent and agents.For pay of the superintendent of Indians affairs at St. Louis, and the several Indian agents, as authorized to law, twenty-six thousand dollars.
Clerk.For clerk in the office of superintendent of Indian affairs, one thousand dollars.
Sub-agents.For pay of sub-agents, as allowed by law, sixteen thousand five hundred dollars.
Interpreters, &c.For pay of interpreters and translators, employed at the several superintendencies and agencies, eighteen thousand eight hundred dollars.
Guns and blacksmiths, &c.For pay of gun and blacksmiths, and their assistants, employed within the several superintendencies and agencies under the orders of the War Department, six thousand four hundred and eighty dollars.
Presents.
Act of 1802, ch. 13, sec. 13.For presents to Indians, as authorized by the act of eighteen hundred and two, fifteen thousand dollars.
Provisions.For provisions for Indians at the distribution of annuities while on visits of business with the different superintendents and agents, and when assembled on public business, eleven thousand eight hundred dollars.
Buildings.For the necessary buildings required at the several agencies, and repairs thereof, two thousand dollars.
Contingencies.For contingencies of the Indian department, twenty thousand dollars.
Holding treaty.For holding a treaty with the Wyandot tribe of Indians, one thousand dollars.
Approved, June 18, 1834.