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Statute I.May 31, 1832.
Qualification ofvoters.
Statute I.June 4, 1832.
[Obsolete.]Appropriationsfor payment ofannuities due toIndians and In-dian tribes.
TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 115, 123. 1832.
Chap. CXV .—An Act defining the qualifications of voters in the territory of
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That every free white malecitizen of the United States of the age of twenty-one years, who shallhave resided in the territory of Arkansas for the term of six months nextpreceding any general or special election, shall have the privilege of votingin the election district where he shall reside, and not elsewhere, for allelective officers of said territory.
Approved, May 31, 1832.
Chap. CXXI11 .—An Act making appropriations for Indian annuities, and othersimilar objects, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the sum of three hundredand thirty-six thousand four hundred and five dollars be, and the same ishereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwiseappropriated, for the payment of the annuities due to the various Indiansand Indian tribes hereinafter mentioned, including the sum of twenty-four thousand five hundred dollars, stipulated for education of Indianyouths; twenty-five thousand four hundred and seventy dollars, stipulatedfor the expenses of blacksmiths, gunsmiths, millers, millwrights, agricul-turists, and labourers employed on Indian service, and for furnishing salt,tobacco, iron, and steel, et csetera; and four thousand three hundred andsixty dollars for expenses of transportation and distribution of certainannuities and agricultural implements, not otherwise provided for, for theservice of the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, that is tosay:
To the Wyandot tribe, five thousand nine hundred dollars.
To the Wyandot, Munsee, and Delaware tribes, one thousand dollars.
To the Shawanee tribe, three thousand dollars, and sixty dollars forfurnishing salt.
To the Shawanee and Seneca tribes, of Lewistown , one thousand dol-lars.
To the Delaware tribe, six thousand five hundred dollars, and one hun-dred dollars for furnishing salt.
To the Wea tribe, three thousand dollars.
To the Piankeshaw tribe, eight hundred dollars.
To the Kaskaskias tribe, one thousand dollars.
To the Ottowa tribe, five thousand three hundred dollars.
To the Ottowa and Missouri tribes, two thousand five hundred dollars,and fifteen hundred dollars for the expenses of blacksmiths’ tools andagricultural implements.
To the Chippewa tribe, three thousand eight hundred dollars; also, onethousand dollars for purposes of education, and two thousand dollars forthe purchase of farming utensils and cattle, and the employment of per-sons to aid them in agriculture.
To the Chippewa, Ottowa , and Pattawatamie tribes, sixteen thousanddollars, and one hundred and twenty-five dollars for furnishing salt.
To the Pattawatamie tribe, sixteen thousand three hundred dollars, andone hundred dollars to Topenibe, principal chief; also, three thousanddollars for purposes of education, and two thousand five hundred andtwenty dollars, for expenses of blacksmiths, millers, and agriculturists,and for furnishing salt, tobacco, iron, and steel.
(a) Notes of the acts relating to the territory, afterwards the state of Arkansas, vol. iii. p. 493.