TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. IT. Ch. 8, 9. 1831.

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Statute II.

Chap. YIII .—An Ad for closing certain accounts, and making appropriationsfor arrearages in the Indian department.

lie it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the sum of sixty-onethousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid outof any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for arrearagesin the Indian department, the same to be applied to the payment of bal-ances on accounts presented and settled by the proper accounting officer,and now actually due, which accrued previous to the first day of January,one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, and to no other purpose.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose of settling andclosing the accounts in the office of the second auditor, relating to Indianaffairs, prior to the date of January, one thousand eight hundred andtwenty-nine, the President of the United States is hereby authorized todirect transfers to be made from such balances of moneys heretofore ap-propriated to carry into effect certain Indian treaties as are no longer re-quired for their several objects, to the credit of certain other heads ofIndian expenditure, under which balances accruing previously to theabove date, remain due to certain individuals, and appear upon the booksof the second auditor; also, to direct similar transfers to be made to andfrom the several specific heads of contingencies of the Indian depart-ment, pay of agents, sub-agents, and presents to Indians; and, also, ofthe sum of five thousand and fourteen dollars and fifteen cents from thehead of subsistence of the army, to the head of Indian expenditure,under which that amount was actually applied and expended: Provided,always, That no such transfer shall be made unless it satisfactorily ap-pear that the specific expenditure was actually made for the service ofIndian affairs, in good faith, by an authorized agent of the government,and before the date aforesaid, and that the balances from which suchtransfers are authorized to be made are not necessary fofthe specific pur-pose of their original appropriation.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasurybe, and is hereby, authorized to pay to Mark and R. H. Bean, of Arkan-sas , out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, eightthousand seven hundred and forty-eight dollars and twenty-five cents,for supplies furnished to the emigrant Creek Indians by direction of for-mer Indian agents: Provided, That the said Beans shall first presentsufficient evidence to the proper accounting officer, that credit was ori-ginally given by them to the government of the United States , and thatno part of the amount has been received by them, or satisfied, directlyor indirectly, from the agents through whom, they sold or contracted.

Approved, January 27, 1831.

Jan. 27, 1831.[Obsolete.]Arrearages.

Transfers ofbalances.

Other trans-fers.

Proviso.

To Mark andR. H. Bean.

Proviso.

Statute II.

Chap. IX .—An Act making appropriations for the payment of revolutionary and

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, to be paid out of any money inthe treasury not otherwise appropriated, for paying revolutionary and in-valid pensioners, viz:

For payment of revolutionary pensioners, for the year one thousandeight hundred and thirty-one, one million eleven thousand one hundreddollars.

For paying the invalid pensioners, in the year one thousand eighthundred and thirty-one, two hundred and seventy-six thousand seven hun-Vol. IV.—55 2 O

Jan. 27, 1831.

[Obsolete.]

Appropriations.

Revolutionary

pensions.

Invalid pen-sions.