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TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess.III. Ch.72. 1839.

Houses for Io-wa chiefs.

Surveys undertreaty with De-lawares —locat-ingMiamiesandWirmeba goes.

Purchase of areservation toWa-pan*seh.

Expenses oftreaty withStock bridgeIndians.

Vaccination ofIndians.

Expenses ofdelegationsfrom the Stock-bridge, Munsee,and Seneca In-dians.

Making mapsshowing the po-sition or landsof Indians atamity with U.S.

Boundariesbetween Indiantribes west ofthe Mississippi .

2d section act28th May, 1830,ch. 148, repeal-ed.

Statute III.March 3,1839.

For the furthersurvey, &c. ofthe Neenah andWisconsin .

Appropriationsfor roads.

From Fond duLac to Wiscon-sin river.

Appropriationby act 7th J uly,1838, ch. 190,for a railroad,

hundred dollars, seven thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dol-lars ;

For building ten houses for the Ioway chiefs as per stipulation of thetreaty, two thousand dollars;

For the completion of the surveys under the treaty with the DelawareIndians, and for the expenses of locating the Miamis and Winnebagoes,two thousand dollars;

To enable the Executive to purchase from Wa-pan-seh, a Pottawata-mie, five sections of land reserved for him by the second article of thetreaty of the twentieth of October, eighteen hundred and thirty-two,four thousand dollars;

For defraying the expenses of holding a treaty, under the directionof the Secretary of War, with the Stockbridge Indians, two thousanddollars;

For the employment of physicians to vaccinate the Indians, to beexpended under the direction of the Secretary of War, five thousanddollars ;

For paying the travelling expenses and board while detained in thecity of Washington, of the delegations of the Stockbridge, Munsee,and Seneca tribes of Indians, in proportion to the distance they havetravelled or may travel in returning to their respective tribes, a sum notexceeding two thousand dollars;

To enable the Secretary of War to have executed under his directiontwelve maps for the use of the War Department and of the Senate ,showing the position of the lands of each Indian tribe in amity with theUnited States , one thousand dollars;

For defraying the expenses of surveying and marking the bounda-ries between the Indian tribes west of the Mississippi , ten thousanddollars.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the second section of anact passed the twenty-eighth day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty,entitled “ An act to provide for an exchange of lands witli the Indiantribes residing within any of the States or Territories, and for theirremoval west of the river Mississippi, ” be, and the same is hereby,repealed.

Approved, March 3, 1839.

Chap. LXXII.— An, Ad to authorize the construction of certain improvements inthe 'Territory of Wisconsin and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That for the furthersurvey and estimate of the cost of improving the navigation of theNeenah and Wisconsin rivers and connecting the same by a navigablecanal or water communication, two thousand dollars be, and the sameare hereby appropriated; and that the following sums of money be, andthe same are hereby, appropriated for the construction of roads in theTerritory of Wisconsin, to wit:

For the construction of a road from Racine, by Janesville , to Sinipee,on the Mississippi , ten thousand dollars;

For the survey and construction of a road from Sauk harbor, onLake Michigan, to Dekorree, on the Wisconsin river, five thousanddollars;

For the construction of a road from Fond du Lac, on lake Winne-bago, by Fox lake, to the Wisconsin river, five thousand dollars.

Sec. 2. And be it. further enacted, That the sum of two thousanddollars, appropriated by the act of the seventh of July, eighteen hun-dred and thirty-eight, entitled “An act making appropriations for certainroads in the Territory of Wisconsin” for a railroad, shall be applied by