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Ohio and Mississippi rivers from Pittsburg to New Orleans , in removingthe obstructions in the channels at the shoal places and ripples, and bysuch other means as may be deemed best for the deepening of the chan-nels of the Ohio river, which said sum shall be expended under thedirection of the President of the United States , by the superintendentappointed to execute said works of improvement; and the President ishereby authorized and required to take bond with approved security infifty thousand dollars conditioned for the faithful performance of theduties required of him under such instructions as may be given him forthe improvement of the navigation of said rivers, and that an officer ofengineers be associated with said superintendent, with authority to sus-pend the operation of any work, or payment of any account, until theorder of the President is received.
To open a road from Washington, in Arkansas territory, to Jackson,in said territory, fifteen thousand dollars.
Approved, March 2, 1831.
Chap. LIX.— An Act making appropriation for carrying into effect certainIndian 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 for the service of the year onethousand eight hundred and thirty-one :
For the annual support of a school for the education of Indian youth,as stipulated for by the sixth article of the treaty of the fifth August, onethousand eight hundred and twenty-six, with the Chippewa tribe of In-dians, one thousand dollars.
For the payment of the annuity of two thousand dollars, and also thesum of two thousand dollars for education, as stipulated for by the thirdarticle of the treaty of the sixteenth October, one thousand eight hun-dred and twenty-six, with the Pattawatamies, the annual sum of fourthousand dollars.
For the annual support of a blacksmith and miller, and for furnishing,annually, one hundred and sixty bushels of salt, under the same treaty,one thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.
For the payment of the permanent and limited annuities provided forby the second article of the treaty with the Pattawatamies of the twentiethof September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, annuallythe sum of three thousand dollars.
For tobacco, iron, steel, education, annuity to the principal chief, andemployment of labourers, by same article, one thousand nine hundredand sixty dollars.
For payment of permanent annuity under the fourth article of thetreaty with the Miamies of the twenty-third of October, one thousandeight hundred and twenty-six, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For iron, steel, tobacco and labourers, by same article, one thousandone hundred dollars.
For support of the poor and infirm, and for education, under thesixth article of said treaty, two thousand dollars.
For payment of the expenses incurred in the erection of buildingsand improvements at the Dwight mission establishment, by the societyengaged in instructing Cherokee children, according to the fifth articleof the treaty with the Cherokee Indians, west of the Mississippi , of thesixth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, eleven thou-sand six hundred and fifteen dollars, the said society agreeing and stipu-lating to expend the amount so paid in the erection of other buildings
Statute II.March 2,1831.[Obsolete.]
School.
Annuity ofPattawatamies.
A blacksmith,&c.
Annuity.
Tobacco, &c.
Annuity.