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ers, connected with the operations of the army; for hire of mechanics,laborers, mule-drivers, teamsters and other assistants, including theirsubsistence; for miscellaneous and contingent charges, and for arrear-ages in eighteen hundred and forty, one million sixty-one thousand eighthundred and sixteen dollars; for removing the raft of Red river underthe direction of the Secretary of War seventy-five thousand dollars;
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be,and he is hereby, directed to cause to be audited the account of the cor-porate authorities of the city of Mobile , for advances of money and ex-penses incurrred in equipping, mounting, and sending to the place ofrendezvous, two full companies of mounted men, under a call from theGovernor of Alabama , at the beginning of the hostilities of the CreekIndians, in the summer of eighteen hundred and thirty-six; and theamount or balance found due, is hereby directed to be paid out of anymoneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, as soon as the Sec-retary of War shall approve the same.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose of designat-ing and marking the boundary line between the State of Michigan andTerritory of Wisconsin, agreeably to the true intent and meaning of thesecond section of the act entitled “ An act to establish the northernboundary line of the State of Ohio , and to provide for the admission ofthe State of Michigan into the Union, upon the conditions therein ex-pressed,” there be, and is hereby appropriated, the sum of six thousanddollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, inthe survey and examination of the country situated between the mouthsof the Menoinonie and Montreal rivers, who is hereby directed to causeto be made a plat or plan of such survey and examination, which shallbe returned to Congress with all convenient despatch.
Approved, March 3, 1841.
Chap. XXXVII.— in Jlct making an appropriation for the temporary support ofcertain destitute Kickapoo Indians , and to defray the expense of removing andsubsisting the Swan Creek and Black River Indians of Michigan .
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum oftwenty-two thousand dollars be appropriated, out of any moneys in theTreasury not otherwise appropriated, for the temporary support of cer-tain destitute Kickapoo Indians, and that those clerks specially chargedwith the business of the Chickasaws be paid as heretofore out of theChickasaw fund such sums as the President of the United States shallauthorize.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the proper accounting officersof the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby, directed to adjustand settle the accounts of Clements, Bryan and Company , with theUnited States , arising under a contract, alleged to have been made onthe twelfth June, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, for subsisting theemigrating Cherokee Indians, upon principles of equity and justice;Provided, That in settling said accounts said accounting officers shallalso take into consideration the contract of said Clements, Bryan andCompany, with the United States of the twenty-seventh June, eighteenhundred and thirty-eight, and deduct any profits which they may havemade under said last-mentioned contract, from whatever amount may befound due to them under said contract of June twelfth, eighteen hun-dred and thirty-eight; and such balance so found to be due, shall bepaid out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.Approved, March 3, 1841.
Statute II.March 3, 1841.
[Obsolete.]
Temporarysupport of des-titute KickapooIndians.
Payment ofthe Chickasawclerks.
Settlement ofthe accounts ofClements, Bry-an & Co.