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duty of the accounting officer, if demanded by the party, his agent, orattorney, to report, forthwith, to the agent of the Treasury Department , thebalance due; and it shall be the duty of the said agent, within sixty daysthereafter, to order suit to be commenced against such delinquent andhis sureties.

Approved, May 26, 1824.

Chap. CL.— An Act appropriating a sum of money to Benjamin Huffman, ofthe state of Indiana .

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of theTreasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Benja-min Huffman the sum of five hundred dollars, to enable him to regainhis son, Peter Hoffman [Huffman] who was taken a captive by hos-tile Indians during the late war: Provided, That the said Benjamin Huff-man shall previously give bond with sufficient security, to be approved ofby the Secretary of the Treasury , conditioned upon the said Huffman’srendering to the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department ,correct accounts of his expenditure of the whole or any part of the saidsum of money for the sole purpose of regaining the possession of his sonaforesaid; and that the said Huffman shall pay any balance that may re-main in his hands after the expenditure provided for as aforesaid, into thetreasury of the United States .

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the aforesaid sum shallbe paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, May 26, 1824.

Chap. CL1.— An Act making appropriations to carry into effect certain Indian

treaties.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates 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 ofthe eighth January, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, between theUnited States and the Creek nation, as relates to the compensation dueto the citizens of Georgia , by the Creek nation, the appropriation here-tofore made for that object being exhausted, the sum of twenty-threethousand dollars.

For the payment of the annuity to the Creek nation, as provided forby the same article of said treaty, the sum of sixteen thousand dollarsannually, for five years, and the sum of ten thousand dollars, annually, forsix years thereafter.

For implements of husbandry and stock of cattle and hogs, agreeablyto the stipulation contained in the third article of the treaty with theFlorida Indians, of the eighteenth September, eighteen hundred andtwenty-three, the sum of six thousand dollars.

For the payment of the annuity to the Florida Indians, as providedfor 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, agreeablyto the fifth article of said treaty, the sum of sixty-five thousand sevenhundred dollars.

For compensation for improvements that may be abandoned by said

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Statute I.May 26, 1824.

500 dollars tobe paid Benja-min Huffman.

Proviso.

To be paidout of the trea-sury.

Statute I.

May 26, 1824.

Specific ap-propriations forcarrying into ef-fect certain In-dian treaties.