TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 117. 1844.
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third article of the treaty of the first of August, eighteen hundred andtwenty-nine, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars;
For the purchase of iron, steel, &.c., for shops, six hundred and sixtydollars;
For pay of laborers and for oxen, stipulated in the same, three hun-dred and sixty-five dollars;
For the purpose of education, stipulated in the fourth article of thetreaty of the fifteenth September, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, threethousand dollars ;
For the support of six agriculturists, purchase of oxen, ploughs, andother implements, stipulated in the fifth article of the same, two thousandfive hundred dollars;
For the pay of two physicians, stipulated in the fifth article of thesame, four hundred dollars;
For interest on investment in stock, at five per centum, on one mil-lion one hundred thousand dollars, stipulated in the fourth article of thetreaty of first November, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, fifty-fivethousand dollars.
To make good the interest on [the] investments in State stocks andbonds for Indian tribes, not yet paid by the States, to be reimbursed outof the interest when collected, twenty-seven thousand three hundred andsixty-six dollars and eighty-nine cents.
For ransoming a white boy, by the name of Frank Lee Witter, fromthe Camanches, two hundred dollars.
For expenses attending the holding of a Treaty with the Caddoes andother wandering tribes, under the act of March third, one thousandeight hundred and thirty-five, to be audited and settled by the properaccounting officers of the Department, in addition to former appropria-tions, two thousand one hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents,or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Approved, June 17, 1844.
Chap. CXV1I.— An Act to authorize the entry of certain lands, occupied by thebranch pilots of the port of New Orleans , and others, in the Slate of Louisiana .
Se it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That Andrew Ander-son, James T. Allen, George Benson, John Bailey, John R. Brown, Ed-ward Bourguin, Jacob Baker, William Brownson, Robert Cooper, Ed-ward Clarke, Thomas Cross, William C. Davis, Edward G. Davis,Ephraim Eldridge, William Ellis, Dennis Finn, Nathaniel J. France,John Fowler, Robert Holliday, John Holland, David Johnston, HenryJohnson, James J. Jarvis, George Linton, Cyrus Lamontt, Cyrus Mor-gan, James W. Morgan, John Miller, Hans Myers, Erasmus Newman,John Parker, John Perrin, Asa Payson, Peter Robinson, James B. Read,Francisco Reeper, David Shepherd, Joseph Shepherd, William T. Smith,Christopher Scheltz, William Stevens, James Scott, John Swiler, JamesTyson, William D. Tolbortt, William Taylor, Thomas J. Vanderslice,James B. Williams, Hiram B. Webster, James Kelly, William Denford,Edward Hansbury, Joseph E. Dunham, Charles Linguist, Gilbert Leo-nard, and Joseph Lampade, all of the parish of Plaquemines in the Stateof Louisiana , or their legal representatives, be, and they are hereby, au-thorized to enter at the land office in the southeastern land district insaid State, within six months after the passage of this act, section seven-teen and lots one and two of section eighteen, in township twenty-three,of range thirty-three east, situated in said district, upon payment to thereceiver of the said land office of one dollar and twenty-five cents peracre: Provided, That at the time of making said entry, they shall filein the land office a survey and plat of the land entered, signed by them
Ransom of boyfrom the Ca-manches.
Holding treatywith Caddoesand others.
Act of March3, 1835, ch. 50.
Statute I.June 17, 1844.
Proviso.