TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 33, 34. 1829.
353
For expenses incurred by the marshal of the Michigan territory, andauthorized by the War Department , in conducting the prosecutionagainst the Winnebago Indians at Prairie du Chien, in one thousandeight hundred and twenty-eight, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For contingencies of Indian department, twenty-two thousand fivehundred and fifty dollars.
For expenses incurred by the exploring party of Indians under thecontrol of Captain Kennerly, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, in addition to the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, heretoforeappropriated, the sum of seven thousand one hundred sixty-eight dollarsand thirteen cents.
For the purpose of purchasing such reservations of land as are yetclaimed by Indians, or Indian countrymen, within the limits of the stateof North Carolina, by virtue of treaties made by the United States withthe Cherokee Indians, the sum of twenty thousand dollars, which sum,or such part thereof as may be found necessary, shall be applied, underthe directions of the President of the United States , to the purpose afore-said, and to no other purpose whatever.
To enable the President of the United States to extinguish the titleof the Delaware Indians to their reservations in Ohio , and to aid themin their removal west of the Mississippi , under the provisions of thetreaty of St. Mary’s in eighteen hundred and eighteen, six thousanddollars.
For compensation to the Indians in Ohio , for depredations committedupon their property by white citizens, under the intercourse law, onethousand five hundred and thirty-nine dollars and twenty-five cents.
Approved, March 2, 1829.
Chap. XXXIII. — An Act to authorize a subscription for slock on the part of theUnited States , in the Louisville and Portland Canal Company.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Trea-sury be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to subscribe for orpurchase, in the name and for the use of the United States , any stockwhich may have been forfeited to the company, and which shall be un-disposed of on the fourth day of March next, not exceeding thirteenhundred and fifty shares of the capital stock of the Louisville and Port-land Canal Company; and to pay for the same, when called upon bysaid company, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appro-priated: Provided, Said shares can be had for a sum not exceeding onehundred dollars each.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Secretary of theTreasury shall vote for president and directors of said company, accord-ing to such number of shares, and shall receive upon the said stock, theproportion of the tolls which shall, from time to time, be due to theUnited States for the stock aforesaid.
Approved, March 2, 1829.
Chap. XXXIV. — An Act making additional appropriations for the support of thenavy of the United States , for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That for defraying the ex-penses of the navy for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively appro-Vol. IV.—45 2 c. 2
Expenses pro-secutingWinne-bagoes, at Prai-rie du Chien.
Contingencies,Indian Depart-ment.
Kennedy’sexploring party.
1828, ch. 124.
Statute II.March 2, 1829.
[Obsolete.]Forfeited stockinLouisvilleandPortland canal,to be purchasedbyUnitedStates.
Secretary ofthe Treasury tovote, &c.
Statute II.
March 2, 1829.
[Obsolete.]
Additional ap-propriation forsupport cf navy.