Journeys toWashington.
Pottawatamies.
Secretary ofWar to closeaccount, &c.
Pension toCol.G. Morgan.
1836, ch.71.
Money appro-priated for re-
TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess.I. Ch.267. 1836.
For carrying into effect the stipulations of the third article of thetreaty concluded with the Swan creek, and Black river bands of theChippewa nation, of the ninth of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-six,viz :
For an advance in money on the ratification of the treaty, two thou-sand five hundred dollars.
For the purchase of goods, four thousand dollars.
For expenses of the treaty, the journeys of the Indians to and fromWashington, subsistence and other expenses, three thousand eight hun-dred and two dollars and sixty-seven cents.
For transportation and incidental expenses, one thousand dollars.
For carrying into effect the stipulations of the treaties concluded withcertain bands of the Pottawatamie Indians of Indiana , in March, andApril, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, viz :
For payment of the sum stipulated in the second article of the treatyof twenty-sixth March, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, with Mes-qua-back and his band, for a cession of land to the United States , two thou-sand five hundred and sixty dollars.
For payment of the sum stipulated in the third article of the treaty ofthe twenty-ninth March, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, with Waw-kewa and his band, for a cession of land to the United States , two thou-sand five hundred and sixty dollars.
For the payment of the sum stipulated in the second article of thetreaty of eleventh April, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, with Aub-ba-naub-ba and his band, for a cession of land to the United States , eleventhousand five hundred and twenty dollars.
For payment of the sum stipulated in the second article of the treatyof twenty-second April, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, with Kee-waw-nee and his band, for a cession of land to the United States , six thousandfour hundred dollars.
For payment of the sum stipulated in the second article of the treatyof twenty-second April, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, with Nas-waw-bee and his band, for a cession of land to the United States , one thou-sand nine hundred and twenty dollars.
For expenses attending the negotiation of the said treaties with thePottawatamies, six hundred and thirty-six dollars and seventy-five cents.
To defray the expense of removing the Choctaw Indians residing inthe State of Mississippi to the country provided for them, west of theMississippi river , thirty thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of W ar ishereby authorized to direct the account to be closed, upon the produc-tion of proper vouchers, for blankets delivered to the Cherokees by orderof the commissioner.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the pension allowed by anact of the present session of Congress to Colonel Gideon Morgan, shallbe paid to him from the date of his disability, to the twenty-seventh ofMarch, eighteen hundred and fourteen, agreeably to the fourteenth arti-cle of the said treaty with the Cherokees ; and that the sum of eightthousand dollars be appropriated for that purpose.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That no part of the appropriationheretofore made, for the eastern Creeks, shall be paid to any Indianswho have been engaged in hostilities against the United States, unlessin such change of circumstances as may induce the President of theUnited States to direct the same to be paid. Provided, however, Thatthe whole of the annuity due to the Seminole Indians and to the easternCreeks may be paid to the friendly portion of those tribes respectively,unless otherwise directed by the President.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the funds appropriated by theact of June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, entitled “ An