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TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 232. 1832,
Commissionersto convene hos-tile tribes, andendeavour to ar-range their diffi-culties.
Act of May 28,1830, ch. 148.
To report aplan for the im-provement ofthe Indians.
To report re-lative to modeof emigrating.
Act limited totwo years.
try, and shall transmit to the War Department all the information theycan procure respecting its climate, soil, and capacity to support the num-ber of Indians who will probably remove to and reside in it.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners shallbe authorized to convene together such of the tribes as may be in a stateof hostility, or as may be apparently disposed to commit, or may havecommitted, depredations or aggressions against others, and to endeavourto arrange the difficulties between them, so that the protection promisedto the emigrating Indians by the sixth section of the act of May twenty-eight, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, may be secured to them.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners shallalso report to the War Department a plan for the improvement, govern-ment, and security of the Indians.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners shallinquire into the mode in w'hich the business of emigration has beenconducted, and report any changes which would render the same moreeconomical, or better adapted to the comfort and condition of the Indians.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That in the discharge of their duties,the said commissioners shall be regulated by such instructions as theymay receive from the War Department .
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That twenty thousand dollars, forthe purpose of carrying the provisions of this act into effect, be, and thesame is appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury nototherwise appropriated.
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be in force forthe term of two years, and no longer.
Approved, July 14, 1832.
Statute I.
July 14, 1832.[Obsolete.]Observationsto be made pre-paratory to theadjustment ofthe boundaryline of Ohio .
Result to bereturned withinone year.
Chap. COXXXII .—An Ad to provide for the taking of certain observations pre-paratory to the adjustment of the northern boundary line of the state of Ohio , (a)
He it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the President of the. Uni-ted States cause to be ascertained, by accurate observation, the latitudeand longitude of the southerly extreme of Lake Michigan ; and thathe cause to be ascertained, by like observation, the point on the Miami of the Lake which is due east therefrom, and also, the latitude and longi-tude of the most northerly cape of the Miami bay; also, that he causeto be ascertained, with all practicable accuracy, the latitude and longi-tude of the most southerly point in the northern boundary line of theUnited States in Lake Erie ; and also, the points at which a direct linedrawn from the southerly extreme of Lake Michigan , to the most south-erly point in said northern boundary line of the United States , will in-tersect the Miami river and bay; and also, that he cause to be ascertainedby like observation, the point in the Mississippi which is due west fromthe southerly extreme of Lake Michigan ; and that the said observationsbe made, and the result thereof returned, to the proper department withinthe current year.
Approved, July 14, 1832.