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Statute II.March 2, 1831.[Obsolete.]
Superintendentoflndian affairs.
1802, ch. 13.Interpreters,&c.
Gun-smiths, &c.
Transportation,
&c.
Provisions.
Contingencies.Boundary lines.
Act of May 9,1828, ch. 47.
TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 64. 1831.
ment of these objects, the superintendents heretofore appointed, or here-after to be appointed, in the states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois , shall,under the direction of the President of the United States , separatelysuperintend, in a faithful manner, such parts of said road as may be de-signated to each, and disburse the money, each giving bond and securi-ty as he shall direct, and shall receive such compensation as, in hisopinion, shall be equitable and just, not exceeding to each, that hereto-fore allowed by law to the superintendent of the Cumberland road, inthe state of Ohio .
Approved, March 2, 1831.
Chap. LX1V .—An Act making appropriations for the Indian department forthe year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the following sums beappropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury,for the Indian department, for the year one thousand eight hundred andthirty-one, viz :
For pay of the superintendent of Indian affairs at St. Louis and theseveral Indian agents, as authorized by law, twenty-nine thousand fivehundred dollars.
For pay of sub-agents, as authorized by law, nineteen thousand fivehundred dollars.
For presents to Indians, as authorized by the act of one thousandeight hundred and twelve, [two] fifteen thousand dollars.
For pay of Indian interpreters and translators employed at the severalsuperintendencies and agencies, twenty-one thousand five hundred andtwenty-five dollars.
For pay of gun and blacksmiths, and their assistants, employed withinthe superintendencies and agencies, under the treaty provisions and theorders of the Secretary of War, eighteen thousand three hundred andforty dollars.
For iron, steel, coal, and other expenses attending the gun and black-smith’s shops, five thousand four hundred and twenty-six dollars.
For expense of transportation and distribution of Indian annuities,nine thousand nine hundred and fifty-nine dollars.
For expense of provisions for Indians at the distribution of annuities,while on visits of business,with the different superintendents and agents,and when assembled on business, eleven thousand eight hundred andninety dollars.
For contingencies of the Indian department, twenty thousand dollars.
For expenses incurred in surveying the north-western boundary linesof the Miami and Pattawatamie cessions by treaties of sixteenth October,one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, and twenty-third October,one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, two hundred and twenty-seven dollars.
For surveying and dividing the reservation granted to the half-breedSacs and Foxes by the treaty of fourth August, one thousand eight hun-dred and twenty-four, two thousand dollars.
For the payment of sundry claims for Indian depredations, heretoforeallowed at the Department of War , one thousand three hundred dollars.
For payments made for provisions and necessary assistance to Indiansemigrating to the west, and to those tribes now settled on or near theKansas river, west of the Missouri , in addition to the appropriation here-tofore made for that object by act of ninth May, one thousand eighthundred and twenty eight, three thousand five hundred and sixty-twodollars, eighty-six cents.