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TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 98. 1838.

including ar-rearages for1837.

Subsistencefor militia, &c.

Purchase ofpowder, &c.

Tents, knap-sacks, &c.

Correcting anerror in payingthe Indians em-ployed in Flori-da .

Objects speci-fied in 3d art. ofsupplementaryarticles of treatyof 1835 withCherokees, &c.

Proviso.

Further pro-viso.

For satisfyingall claims forannuities, &c.

Statute II.June 12, 1838.

Commissionsto collectors onbonds post-poned by act ofOct. 16, 1837.ch. 8.

Proviso.

hundred and fifteen dollars arrearages for eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, one million four hundred and sixteen thousand two hundred andfifty dollars and thirty-two cents;

For subsistence for militia, volunteers, and friendly Indians, threehundred and sixty-five thousand and forty dollars;

For the purchase of powder and other materials for cartridges, toge-ther with the repairs of gun-carriages, small-arms, and accoutrements,thirty-five thousand dollars;

For tents, knapsacks, and other supplies furnished by the clothingbureau, twenty thousand six hundred and seventy-seven dollars andfifty-six cents;

For correcting an error in paying the Indians employed in the publicservice in Florida , seven thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollarsand fifty-three cents;

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the further sum of onemillion forty-seven thousand and sixty-seven dollars be appropriated, outof any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full, forall objects specified in the third article of the supplementary articles ofthe treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty-five, between the United States and the Cherokee Indians, and for the further object of aiding in thesubsistence of said Indians for one year after their removal west: Pro-vided, That no part of the said sum of money shall be deducted fromthe five millions stipulated to be paid to said tribe of Indians by saidtreaty : And provided, f urther, That the said Indians shall receive nobenefit from the said appropriation, unless they shall complete theiremigration within such time as the President shall deem reasonable, andwithout coercion on the part of the Government.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That, for satisfying all claims forarrearages of annuities, for supplying blankets and other articles ofclothing for the Cherokees who are not able to supply themselves, andwhich may be necessary for their comfortable removal, and for medi-cines and medical assistance, and for such other purposes as the Presi-dent shall deem proper to facilitate the removal of the Cherokees , onehundred thousand dollars be appropriated out of any money in theTreasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, June 12, 1838.

Chap. XCVI1I.— Jin Act to secure the payment of certain commissions on dutybonds to collectors of customs.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That, on all bonds for duties,taken by any collector of the customs, the payment whereof has beenat any time postponed by virtue of “An act authorizing a further post-ponement of payment upon duty bonds,” passed on the sixteenth dayof October last, the collectors who took said bonds, respectively, or theirlegal representatives, shall be allowed by the Secretary of the Treasury,and entitled to receive, the same commissions, whenever and as fast asthe sums secured by such bonds shall be paid into the Treasury, as theywould respectively have been entitled to be allowed and receive had thesaid bonds been paid at maturity and without such postponement; andno part of such commissions shall be claimed by or allowed to the suc-cessor in office of any such collector, in any case in which such suc-cessor would not have been entitled by law to a portion thereof, if suchpostponement of the payment of said bonds had not taken place: Pro-vided, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to give to anycollector of the customs, or to the representatives of any such collector,a sum greater than the compensation he would have been entitled toreceive in case the law therein referred to, for the suspension of pay-