Laws of the United States. For the salaries of Registers and Receivers of Land Offices where there are no sales, two thousand dollars. For surveying the public lands, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars, viz: For the survey of the Choctaw cession in Mississippi, eight thousand dollars; and for the survey of other public lands, eighty thousand dollars; and a further sum for the survey of the lands ceded by the Creeks to the United States, fifty thousand dollars. For the salaries of two keepers of the public archives in Florida, one thousand dollars. For the revision of all former statements of the enu. meration of the inhabitants of the United States and their Territories, being a balance due D. Green for printing the abstract of said revision, two hundred and twentynine dollars. For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall be ascertained and admitted in due course of settlement at the Treasury, twelve thousand dollars. For stationary and books for the offices of Commissioners of Loans, five hundred dollars. For registers for ships and vessels, and lists of crews, four thousand dollars. For the fourth payment to Luigi Pers.co, for two colossal statues for the Capitol, four thousand dollars. For the salaries of the Ministers of the United States to Great Britain, France, Spain, Russia, and Colombia, forty-five thousand dollars. For the salaries of the Secretaries of Legation to the same places, ten thousand dollars. For the salaries of the Chargés des Affaires to Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Turkey, Belgium, Brazil, Buenos Ayres, Chili, Peru, Mexico, Central America, and Naples, fifty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. For salary of the drogoman, and for contingencies of the Legation of the United States to Turkey, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. For outfits of the Ministers of the United States to Great Britain, France, and Russia, sixty-six thousand dollars. For outfits of the Chargés des Affaires of the United States to Holland, Belgium, Central America, Buenos Ayres, and Naples, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, thirty thousand dollars. For the salaries of the agents for claims at London and Paris, four thousand dollars. For the expenses of intercourse with the Mediterranean Powers, twenty-four thousand four hundred dollars. For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, twenty thousand dollars. [22d CONG. 1st SESS. be paid for by the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House, according to the terms of the subscription; and the selecting, editing, and making indexes, to be paid for in like manner, and at such rate of compensation as shall be judged reasonable and proper by the Committee of Accounts of the two Houses. To enable the Secretary of State to cause to be printed, under his direction, a selection from the Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States, between the peace of one thousand seven hundred and eighty three, and the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, remaining unpublished in the Department of State, twelve thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of State to carry into effect the resolution of Congress of the seventh of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, in relation to recording patents, fourteen thousand six hundred and twelve dollars. To enable the Secretary of State to pay for seventy copies of Peters' Condensed Reports of Decisions of the Supreme Court, subscribed for under the resolution of Congress of the second of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, two thousand one hundred dollars. For the payment of a balance due to Walter Smith, on the books of the Fourth Auditor, to be applied, first, to the discharge of any balance standing against said Smith on the books of the Treasury, and the residue to be paid to the legal representatives of Walter Smith, the sum of three thousand three hundred and thirty dollars and sixty. one cents. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to employ a suitable person to complete the Marine Hospital at Charleston, South Carolina, authorized by the act of twentieth May, one thousand eight hundred and thirtyfour thousand three hundred and sixty dollars: Provided, nothing herein contained shall be construed to enlarge the said contract, or to release the contractor from his lia. bility thereunder. For the erection of Marine Barracks and Officers' quarters at the Navy Yard, Philadelphia, nine thousand dollars. For the purpose of defraying the expenses of a survey of the waters of Narragansett Bay, to be made under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, with a view to as certain the practicability and expediency of establishing a Naval depot therein, five thousand dollars. For enabling the President of the United States to ob. tain from the Norfolk Bridge Company a release and conveyance to the United States, of the Bridge over the Southern branch of Elizabeth river, between the Navy Yard and the Dry Dock, and of the road leading from the same to the South-western side of said Yard, the sum of sixteen thousand dollars: Provided, The Secretary of the Navy shall be satisfied that the said sum does not ex. To enable the President of the United States to proceed the value of the same: And provided, That the cure copies of the documents relative to the history of the United States, from the public offices in Great Britain, two thousand dollars. For the contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, thirty thousand dollars. For the purchase of the Bust of Thomas Jefferson, executed by Ceracci, now in the possession of Mr. Jefferson's Executor, four thousand dollars, if so much should be deemed necessary by the Committee on the Library. For the purpose of enabling the Secretary of State to discharge a balance due to the Marshal of the Territory of Michigan, beyond the existing appropriation for his services in taking a census of the persons in the said Territory, who are not freeholders, one hundred and twenty dollars and forty-four cents For account of printing and binding, and for selecting, editing, and preparing indexes for the compilation of documents, for which a subscription was authorized by the act of the second of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty one, fifty-five thousand dollars; the printing to Attorney General of the United States shall be satisfied of the validity of the title, and that the right thus acquired will authorize the United States to remove the Bridge, and to enclose the road within the Navy Yard. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of State be authorized, out of the sums appropriated to defray the expenses of taking the late Census, to pay those assistant Marshals for their services, who have failed to receive compensation from the delinquency of the principal Marshals. Approved: May 5, 1822. AN ACT making appropriations for the Indian Department for the year one thousand eight hundred and thir ty-two. Be it enacted, &c. That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated for the Indian Department, For the pay of the Superintendent of Indian Affairs at St. Louis, and the several Indian Agents, as established by law, including an Agent for the Kansas, agreeably to a treaty with that tribe, of June third, eighteen hundred and twenty five, thirty-two thousand dollars. terment of members of Congres, and other officers of the AN ACT in relation to the Penitentiary for the District of Columbia. For the pay of Sub agents, as established by law, nine-sand five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, apteen thousand dollars. Be it enacted, &c. That the sum of thirty-eight thotpropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of completing the Penitentiary and buildings connected with it, for the erection of railing on the exterior walls, and for the supsent year, to be expended under the superintendence and direction of the Inspectors of the Penitentiary. Approved: May 31, 1832. For presents to Indians, as authorized by the act of one thousand eight hundred and two,fifteen thousand dollars. For the pay of Indian interpreters and translators, employed in the several superintendencies and agencies, twenty-one thousand five hundred and twenty-five dol-port of the convicts, and pay of the officers for the prelars. For the pay of gunsmiths and blacksmiths, and their assistants, employed within the several superintendencies and agencies, under treaty provisions and the orders of the War Department, eighteen thousand three hundred and forty dollars. For iron, steel, coal, and other expenses attending the gunsmiths' and blacksmiths' shops, five thousand four hundred and twenty-six dollars. For expense of transportation and distribution of Indian annuities, nine thousand nine hundred and fifty-nine dollars. lic business, eleven thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars. For expense of building houses for Indian agents, blacksmiths' shops, and for repairs of the same, when required, in the several agencies, seven thousand dollars. For contingencies of the Indian Department, twenty thousand dollars: Provided, in no case shall any money hereby appropriated be used for the purpose of reward ing Indians for settling disputes among themselves. AN ACT for quieting possessions, enrolling conveyances, and securing the estates of purchasers within the District of Columbia. Be it enacted, &c. That if any person or persons, seized or possessed of, or holding any estate or interest in any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, lying and being within the District of Columbia, shall execute and acknow. ledge a deed for the conveyance of such estate or inte For expense of provisions for Indians at the distribution rest, or for declaring or limiting any use or trust in and of of annuities, while on visits of business with the different the same, before any judge of a Court of Record, and of superintendents and agents, and when assembled on pub-law of the State and County in which such person or persons may be, or before any chancellor of any such State, or before any Judge of the Supreme, Circuit, District, or Territorial Courts of the United States, or before any two Justices of the Peace of the State, District or Territory and County in which such person or persons may be; and such Judge, Chancellor, or Justices, shall annex to such deed a certificate, under his or their hands, of the execution and acknowledgement thereof, and that the gran tor or grantors was or were known to him or them, or that his, her, or their identity, had been satisfactorily proved, and the Register, Clerk, or Prothonotary, of such Court or County, shall also certify under his hand and the seal of his office, that the Judge, Chancellor, or Justices, is or are, was or were such,at the time of the execution and acknowledgment thereof; or if any such person or persons, seized or possessed as aforesaid, shall be in some foreign country, and shall execute and acknowledge any such deed before any Judge or Chancellor of any Court, master or master extraordinary, in chancery, or notary public, in such foreign country; and such execution and acknow. ledgment, and, also, the identity of the grantor or grantors shall be certified upon, or annexed to, such deed,under the hand and seal of any such judge, chancellor, master, or master extraordinary, or notary public, and such deed, so executed, acknowledged and certified, in the several and respective modes aforesaid, shall be recorded amongst the land records of the county of Washington, or the County of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia, within six calendar months from the day of its date, if executed and acknowledged within the United States, or the Territories thereof, or within twelve calendar months Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, for defraying the expenses of conducting a deputation of Indians from the head waters of the Mis souri to Washington City, and from thence to their own country: Provided, That no compensation beyond their actual expenses for extra services, shall be allowed any Indian Agent or Sub-agent for services when doing duty under the order of their Government, detached from their agency and boundary of the tribe to which they are Agents. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be, and hereby is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, in the purchase and delivery of corn, or other provisions, for the use of the Seminole Indians, who are likely to suffer on account of the failure of their crops from a severe drought the last year. Approved: May 31, 1832. AN ACT to aid the vestry of Washington parish in the erection of a keeper's house, and the improvement and security of the ground allotted for the interment of members of Congress, and other public officers. Be it enacted, &c. That the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby,appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of the Public Buildings, for the purpose of aid. ing the vestry of Washington parish in the erection of a keeper's house, for planting trees, boundary stones, and otherwise improving the burial ground, allotted to the in from the day of its date, if executed and acknowledged in Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That Laws of the United States. acknowledgment of the same voluntarily,and without being induced to do so by fear or threats of, or ill usage by, her husband, or fear of his displeasure; and such examination and acknowledgment, and also the identity of the party, shall be certified in the mode prescribed in the first section of this act, according to the place or country where such femme couvert shall be at the time of such examination and acknowledgment, and such deed shall be recorded within the several and respective periods herein before mentioned; the same shall be good and available for the purposes therein mentioned, and thereby intended. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Clerks of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia for the Counties of Washington and Alexandria, respectively, are hereby authorized to record any deed or conveyance, executed and authenticated agreeably to the provisions of this act. Approved: May 31, 1832. AN ACT vesting in the Corporation of the City of Wash ington all the rights of the Washington Canal Company, and for other purposes. Whereas it is represented that the Mayor, Board of Aldermen, and Board of Common Council, of the city of Washington, have purchased, and are now exclusive own ers of, all the stock of the Washington Canal Company, and are desirous that the entire property, rights, privileges, and immunities, of the said Company, be vested in them for the use and benefit of the said city: Therefore, Be it enacted, &c. That all the right, title, interest, property, and estate, either in law or equity, of the Washington Canal Company, be, and the same are hereby, vested in the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, for the use aforesaid; and that the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Councilmen, shall have full power and authority to take possession of the Canal and works of the said Company, and to hold, use, occupy, and repair the same, from time to time, as occasion may require, and as to them shall seem expedient: Provided, That sail canal shall be finished and completed, of the breadth and depth, and in the manner and within the time, hereinafter prescribed, and not otherwise. : Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said canal shall be finished in such manner that the width thereof, from Seventeenth street west to Sixth street west, at the water line, shall be one hundred and fifty feet; from Sixth street west to B street south, eighty feet, at the water line; from B street south to the basin at the Virginia Avenue, sixty feet, at the water line; from said basin to L street south, forty-five feet at the water line; from L street south to N street south, forty feet, at the water line; and from L street south to the channel of the Eastern branch, one hundred and twenty feet, at the water line and the said canal, throughout its whole length and breadth aforesaid, shall have a depth of at least four feet water at all times. There shall also be made by the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Coun. cilmen, three basins attached to the said canal, which shall be by them kept in repair, of the following dimensions, one at the western termination of the said one hundred and fifty feet wide and five hundred and forty-five feet long; one at anch, at the eastern termination of the said canal, of at least one hundred and twenty feet in width, and hundred and ninety feet in length; and one at the Virginia Avenue, of at least eighty feet in width, and one hundred teet in length; each of which basins shall, a all times, have, throughout its length and width, a | de, of water equal to that hereby required in the said And the sides of the said canal and basins shall be secured by walls of stone or other materials, where ranat, a.. thous pi the East Catal | [22d CONG. 1st SESS. necessary, of sufficient strength and height to allow the use of steam vessels therein; all which work hereby required to be done to complete the said canal and basins, shall be done and finished in the manner aforesaid by the first day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, or, in default thereof, this act, and all the rights and privileges thereby granted, shall cease and determine. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all such provi sions, in any former law, as required the Washington Canal Company to raise, drain, or improve, the low or wet grounds along or near the said canal, shall remain in full force, and be obligatory on the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council: Provided, That no funds for that purpose shall be raised by lottery. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That,for and in consideration of the expenses which have been, and will be, incurred in finishing the said canal and basins, and of securing the sides thereof, and of the expenses of erecting and maintaining locks, and of completing the whole work according to the provisions of this act, and of keeping the otherwise improving or drying the low and wet grounds same in repair, including the expense of draining, or along and near the said canal, the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, are hereby authorized to collect, on all articles and materials landed on each side of the canal and basins, from on board any boat, scow, or other vessel, or water craft, or placed on either side of the said canal or basins for the purpose of being taken therefrom by any boat, scow, or other vessel, or water craft, wharfage, according to such rates as they, by any by-laws or regulations, may from time to time ordain and establish : Provided, That the said rates shall, at no time hereafter, and in no particular, exceed those charged on the same articles by the owners of private wharves in the said city. And it shall and may be lawful for the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, to demand and receive, at the most convenient place or places, for all articles carried along the said canal, tolls not exceeding the following rates; that is to say: for each unloaded boat, scow, or other vessel or water craft, twenty-five cents; for each barrel of flour, beef, or pork, two cents; for each barrel of whiskey, brandy, or spirituous liquors, of any description, three cents; for each hogshead or pipe, six cents; and upon all other articles, packages, or commodities, not exceeding six cents for each ton; and after that rate for any article or quantity weighing less than one ton. And said Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, shall also have the exclusive right to establish a packet boat or boats on the said canal, for the conveyance of passengers; and no other boat or boats for that purpose, except such as are established or permitted by them, shall be allowed to convey passengers on the said canal for hire. The tolls hereby granted shall be demandable on any boat, scow, vessel, or other water craft, on any of the articles aforesaid, for a passage through either of the locks, or along any part of the said canal, but the public property of the United States shall be landed and pass free of wharfage and tolls. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, shall, from time to time, erect and keep in repair, all such bridge or bridges over the said canal, in each and every street crossing the same, as the convenience of the inhabitants of the city may re. quire; which bridges shall be erected at least eight feet above high water, and of not less width than twenty-four feet, and be safe for the passage of footmen, horses, cattle, carriages, and loaded wagons. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, shall, annually, in the month of January, lay before Congress a true statement of the capital invested by them in the purchase, completion, and improvement of the said canal and works, with open forever as a public street, and subjected to the same rules, regulations, and ordinances, as shall and may affect the other streets and avenues in said city; and that all the streets of said city running north and south, and all avenues which, by continuing the same, shall extend through said Mall, and such as running westwardly and eastwardly would in like manner intersect the same, shall, in like manner, be opened and kept open, and subject as aforesaid. the amount of their annual expenditures and receipts, so as to show the clear nett profit by them so received on such investment; and if at any time the nett profit shall happen to fall short of six per centum on the said capital so invested, it shall be lawful for them to increase the said rates of toll and wharfage in such manner as they may judge sufficient to produce six per centum per annum on the said investment; and should it so happen that at any time the nett proceeds aforesaid shall exceed a rate of ten per centum per annum, they shall so reduce the said Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That a map or rates as not to produce a greater nett profit than of the plat of the said land, squares, streets, and avenues, made said rates of ten per centum. In estimating the amount and prepared by F. C. De Krafft, United States' Survey. of capital invested, the proceeds of sale of the real estate or of the City of Washington, dated December twentyhereby granted to the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Com-seventh, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, mon Council, to aid them in the execution of the works marked A, be, and the same is hereby, ordered and dihereby required, shall not be included, but the amount rected to be recorded in the office of the Commissioner of sales of the said property, showing what part thereof of Public Buildings, and also in the office of said Survey. shall have been sold, and at what price each part of the or of the said city of Washington, and shall be held and said property shall have been sold, shall form part of the deemed as indicating correctly the said lands and squares, said annual report. streets and avenues, and be of full authority as designating and exhibiting the same. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, shall not begin to collect wharfage or tolls, until the said canal and works shall have been wholly completed according to the provisions of this act, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, for the time being, who is hereby authorized and required to give his certificate thereof, whenever, in his opinion, the same shall have been so completed; and upon obtaining such certificate, and depositing the same with the Clerk of the Circuit Court for the District of Columbia, in the county of Wash ington, to be by him recorded, it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, to commence the collection of the said wharfage and tolls. And such right to collect the said rates of toll and wharfage shall cease, whenever the said canal shall be so out of repair as to impede the free and convenient use thereof by vessels or craft drawing four feet water, so long as the same shall so remain out of repair or obstructed. Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That if any proprie tor, or proprietors of any lots now fronting north on B street south, between said Sixth and Fifteenth streets, shall signify his, her, or their, desire and intention to exchange said lots for an equal quantity of the lands herein and hereby conveyed to the said Mayor, Board of Aldermen, and Board of Common Council, situated on the south side of A street south, and immediately north of his, her, or their, said lots, it shall be the duty of the said Mayor, Board of Aldermen, and Board of Common Council, on such intention and desire being made known to them, to and upon a conveyance in due form of law, clear of all incumbrances, being made to them for the said lands so held by such proprietor or proprietors, to convey and assign to the said proprietor, or proprietors, a corresponding quantity on the square immediately north and fronting on A street south. And in case such proprietor or proprietors shall have made any substantial imSec. 8. And in order to aid the said Mayor, Aldermen, provements on the said land so held by him or them as and Common Council, in fulfilling the objects and re- aforesaid, to make a fair and equitable allowance on said quirements of this act, Be it further enacted, That all the surrender or conveyance, either in land or money, as may right, title, property, interest, and estate, in law or equi- be agreed on between the parties: Provided, said proty, of the United States, of, in, and to, that part of the prietor or proprietors shall make known such intention to public reservation in the city of Washington, known and the said Mayor, Board of Aldermen, and Board of Comdesignated as the Mall, which is bounded as follows: ly-mon Council, on or before the first day of August next. ing between Sixth and Fifteenth streets west, and extending from Canal street two hundred and fifteen feet south to the continuation of A street north, and all that part of the said reservation on the south side of the said Mall extending from B street south, three hundred and sixty-six feet, to A street south, and lying between Sixth and Fifteenth streets west, and all the right, title, interest and estate, which is now, or ought to be, vested in any trustees, commissioners, or other person, for, and on behalf, and in trust, for the benefit of the United States, be, and the same are hereby, vested in the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, in fee, for the purpose, and to be by them sold and applied for the purposes aforesaid, or so much thereof as they shall deem it advisable to sell for the said purposes, and the said residue to hold and use for the benefit and convenience of the said city. Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, shall not be authorized to occupy, nor permit others to occupy, more than forty feet for the purpose of landing on either side of the said Canal, extending from the Eastern branch to Seventeenth street west upon the plan of the city. Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That a street be laid out along the entire length of said canal, on the south side thereof, of the width of eighty feet, between said Sixth and Fifteenth streets west, which shall be kept Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That the said Mayor, Board of Aldermen, and Board of Common Coun cil, be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to lay out and divide the said lands, so conveyed and vested by virtue of this act, into lots, with alleys, as to them shall seem meet and proper, and to dispose of and sell the same, or so much thereof as shall remain unexchanged as aforesaid, and also all such lots as they shall receive in exchange as aforesaid, at such times and upon such terms as to the said Mayor, Board of Aldermen, and Board of Common Council, shall seem meet; and to execute, or cause to be executed, good and sufficient deeds of con. veyance to the purchasers thereof. Sec. 14. And be it further enacted, That, the proceeds arising from said sales shall be, and constitute a fund, which shall be applied by the said mayor, Board of Aldermen, and Board of Common Council, to pay and extinguish any debt which has been, or may be contracted, either in the purchase of the Washington City Canal, or the shares of stockholders in the said canal, or in the completion of the same, and in the expenses and attending said purchase and completion, and shall not be applicable to any other object or purpose until said debts shall extinguished. Sec. 15. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this act contained shall be held or deemed, in an manner or way, to impair or injure any private rights onnterests, Laws of the Fnited States. or in any manner to affect the same beyond the mere transfer of the rights of the United States to said Mayor, Board of Aldermen, and Board of Common Council. Sec. 16. And be it further enacted, That the several acts passed on the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and two, the sixteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and nine; the sixth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twelve; and the twen tieth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty. six, in relation to the Washington Canal Company, shall be, and the same are hereby, repealed, except as herein before provided. Approved: May 31, 1832. AN ACT changing the times of holding the Courts in the District of Columbia. Be it enacted, &c. That the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia for the county of Washington shall hereafter be held on the fourth Monday in March, and on the fourth Monday in November, in every year, instead of the times now designated by law; and the court for the county of Alexandria shall be held on the first Monday in May, and on the first Monday in October, in every year, instead of the times now designated by law; and that all process shall be made returnable to the said terms as herein directed. This act shall take effect from and after the first day of June next. Approved: May 31, 1832. [22d CONG. 1st SESS. To the Kaskaskias tribe, one thousand dollars. To the Ottawa tribe, five thousand three hundred dollars. To the Ottawa and Missouri tribe, two thousand five hundred dollars, and fifteen hundred dollars for the expenses of blacksmiths' tools and agricultural implements. To the Chippewa tribe, three thousand eight hundred dollars; also, one thousand dollars for the purposes of education, and two thousand dollars for the purchase of farming utensils and cattle, and the employment of persons to aid them in agriculture. To the Chippewa, Ottawa, and Pottawatamy tribes, sixteen thousand dollars, and one hundred and twenty-five dollars for furnishing salt. To the Pottawatamy tribe, sixteen thousand three hundred dollars, and one hundred dollars to Topenibe, principal chief; also, three thousand dollars for the purposes of education, and two thousand five hundred and twenty dollars, for expenses of blacksmiths, millers, and agriculturists, and for furnishing salt, tobacco, iron, and steel. To the Pottawatamy tribe of Huron, four hundred dollars. To the Choctaw tribe, fifty thousand nine hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Mushulatubbe, a chief, one bundred and fifty dollars, and to Robert Cole, a chief, one hundred and fifty dollars; also, twelve thousand five hundred dollars for purposes of education, and two thousand nine hundred and fifty-five dollars for expenses of black AN ACT defining the qualifications of voters in the Ter-smiths and mill wrights, and for furnishing iron and steel. ritory of Arkansas. Be it enacled, &c. That every free white male citizen of the United States, of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have resided in the Territory of Arkansas for the term of six months next preceding any general or special election, shall have the privilege of voting in the elec tion district where he shall reside, and not elsewhere, for all elective officers of said Territory. Approved: May 31, 1832. AN ACT making appropriations for Indian annuities, and other similar objects, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two. Be it enacted, &c. That the sum of three hundred and thirty-six thousand four hundred and five dollars, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of the annuities due to the various Indians and Indian tribes hereinafter mentioned, including the sum of twenty-four thousand five hundred dollars, stipulated for education of Indian youths; twenty-five thousand four hundred and seventy dollars, stipulated for the expenses of blacksmiths, gun smiths, millers, millwrights, agriculturists, and laborers, employed on the Indian service, and for furnishing salt, tobacco, iron, and steel, et cætera; and four thousand three hundred and sixty dollars for expenses of transportation and distribution of certain annuities and agricultural implements, not otherwise pro vided for, for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, that is to say: To the Wyandot tribe, five thousand nine hundred 1.tar. to Wyandot, Munsee, and Delaware tribes, one illars. To the Shawanee tribe, three thousand dollars, and sixty dollars for furnishing salt. To the 'awanee and Seneca tribes, of Lewistown, one thosand dollars. To the Delaware tribe, six thousand five hundred dolars, and on hundred dollars for furnishing salt. To the Va tribe, three thousand dollars. To the Eel river tribe, one thousand one hundred dol To the Sac tribe, three thousand dollars. To the Sac and Fox tribes, two thousand dollars. To the Sac, Fox, and Ioway tribes, three thousand dollars, for expenses of blacksmiths and agriculturists, and furnishing farming utensils and cattle. To the Fox tribe, three thousand dollars. To the Ioway tribe, three thousand dollars; also nine hundred dollars for expenses of blacksmiths, and furnishing agricultural tools. To the Osage tribe, eight thousand five hundred dolTo the Seneca tribe, of Lewistown, one thousand dol lars. lars. To the Quapaw tribe, two thousand dollars. To the Kickapoo tribe of Illinois, two thousand dollars. To the Florida Indians, five thousand dollars; also one thousand dollars for purposes of education, and one thousand dollars for the expenses of a gun and blacksmith. To the Miami tribe, twenty-five thousand dollars; also two thousand dollars for the support of the poor and infirm, and education of youth; and two thousand and twenty dollars for expenses of blacksmith, and for furnishing salt, iron, and steel, and tobacco. To the Winnebago tribe, eighteen thousand dollars; also three thousand seven hundred and ninety dollars for expenses of blacksmiths and agriculturists, and for furnishing salt and tobacco. To the Kanza tribe, three thousand five hundred dollars. To the Christian Indians, four hundred dollars. |