# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/22nd Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 56

Chap. LVI.—An Act making appropriations for the Indian Department for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.
Appropriations for the Indian department.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Indian department for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, viz:
For the salary of the commissioner of Indian affairs, three thousand dollars.
For the pay of the superintendent of Indian affairs at St. Louis, and the several Indian agents, as established by law, twenty-six thousand dollars.
For the pay of sub-agents, as established by law, seventeen thousand dollars.
For presents to Indians, as authorized by the act of one thousand eight hundred and two, fifteen thousand dollars.
For pay of Indian interpreters and translators employed in the several superintendencies and agencies, twenty thousand dollars.
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, sixteen thousand dollars.
For iron, steel, coal, and other expenses attending the gunsmiths and blacksmiths’ shops, five thousand dollars.
For expenses of transportation and distribution of Indian annuities, nine thousand five hundred dollars.
For expenses of provisions for Indians at the distribution of annuities, while on visits of business with the different superintendents and agents, and when assembled on public business, eleven thousand eight hundred dollars.
For expense of building houses for Indian agents, blacksmiths’ shops, and for repairs of the same, when required, in the several agencies, two thousand dollars.
For contingencies of the Indian Department, twenty thousand dollars.
For supplying the deficiency in the appropriation for the compensation of commissioners, and other expenses attending the adjustment of boundaries under the treaty of Butte des Morts, contained in the1830, ch. 99. act of twentieth May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, making appropriations to carry into effect the said treaty, five hundred and fourteen dollars and sixty-two cents.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the following sums, being unexpended balances of former appropriations, be, and the same are hereby, re-appropriated to the several objects of the original appropriations, respectively, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, viz: for the exchange of land with the Indians, and for their removal west of the Mississippi, by act of twenty-eighth May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, two hundred and eighty dollars and six cents.
For defraying the expenses of an expedition fitted out, consisting of the militia of Georgia and Florida, for the suppression of aggressions by the Indians on their frontiers, three thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine dollars and eighty-six cents.
For carrying into effect a treaty with the Winnebagoes, by ​