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TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 54. 1834.
Superintendentand agents.
Clerk.
Sub-agents.
Interpreters,
&c.
Gun and black-smiths, &c.
Provisions.
Buildings.
Contingencies.Holding treaty.
For pay of the superintendent of Indians affairs at St. Louis , and theseveral Indian agents, as authorized by law, twenty-six thousand dollars.
For clerk in the office of superintendent of Indian affairs, one thou-sand dollars.
For pay of sub-agents, as allowed by law, sixteen thousand five hun-dred dollars.
For pay of interpreters and translators, employed at the several super-intendencies and agencies, eighteen thousand eight hundred dollars.
For pay of gun and blacksmiths, and their assistants, employed withinthe several superintendencies and agencies under the orders of the WarDepartment , six thousand four hundred and eighty dollars.
For presents to Indians, as authorized by the act of eighteen hundredand two, fifteen thousand dollars.
For the purchase of iron, steel, and coal, and for other expenses attend-ing the gun and blacksmith shops, one thousand four hundred and sixty-five dollars.
For provisions for Indians at the distribution of annuities while onvisits of business with the different superintendents and agents, and whenassembled on public business, eleven thousand eight hundred dollars.
For the necessary buildings required at the several agencies, and re-pairs thereof, two thousand dollars.
For contingencies of the Indian department, twenty thousand dollars.
For holding a treaty with the Wyandot tribe of Indians, one thousanddollars.
Approved, June 18, 1834.
Statute I.June 19, 1834.
Act of May 29,1S30, ch. 208,revived, and ex-tended to thosewho settled andcultivated landin 1833.
Choice ofquar-ter sections al-lowed.
Settlers on thepublic lands be-fore 1829 mayenter a quartersection at theminimum price.
Chap. LIV .—Jin Act to revive the act entitled “An act to great pre-emption rightsto settlers on the public lands,” approved May twenty-nine, one thousand eighthundred and thirty, (a)
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That every settler or occupantof the public lands, prior to the passage of this act, who is now in pos-session, and cultivated any part thereof, in the year one thousand eighthundred and thirty-three, shall be entitled to all the benefits and privi-leges provided by the act entitled “An act to grant pre-emption rights tosettlers on the public lands,” approved May twenty-nine, one thousandeight hundred and thirty; and the said act is hereby revived and shallcontinue in force two years from the passage of this act and no longer.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That where a person inhabits onequarter section and cultivates another, he shall be permitted to enter theone or the other at his discretion: Provided, Such occupant shall desig-nate, within six months from the passage of this act, the quarter sectionof which he claims the pre-emption under the same.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all persons residing on thepublic lands, and cultivating the same, prior to the year eighteen hundredand twenty-nine, and who were deprived of the advantages of the lawpassed on the twenty-ninth May, eighteen hundred and thirty, by theconstructions placed on said law by the Secretary of the Treasury, be,and they are hereby authorized to enter, at the minimum price of thegovernment, one quarter section of the public lands, within said landdistrict.
Approved, June 19, 1834.
(a) See notes of the acts relating to pre-emption of public lands, vol. iv. p. 420.