# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 32

Chap. XXXII.—An Act making appropriations for the Indian department, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven.
Sums appropriated for the Indian dept., for 1827.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 the same are hereby, appropriated, to wit:
Pay of the superintendent of Indian affairs at St. Louis, &c.For the pay of the superintendent of Indian affairs at St. Louis, and the several Indian agents, as established by law, thirty-one thousand dollars.
Pay of sub-agents.For the pay of sub-agents, as established by law, fifteen thousand one hundred dollars.
Presents. 1802, ch. 13.For presents to Indians, as authorized by act of one thousand eight hundred and two, fifteen thousand dollars.
For defraying the expenses of holding treaty with the Cherokee Indians, &c.For defraying the expenses of holding a treaty with the Cherokee Indians, for the purpose of extinguishing their claim to lands within the limits of the state of North Carolina; and, also, for the purpose of extinguishing their claim to as much land as will be necessary for a canal to connect the Highwassee and Canasaga with each other, the sum of ten thousand dollars.
Pay for rations delivered to the Florida Indians.To pay for rations delivered to the Florida Indians by Benjamin Chaires, under a contract with the United States, in fulfilment of the stipulations of the treaty of the eighteenth of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, seven thousand nine hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifty-nine cents.
Provision, heretofore made, for carrying into effect the treaty of the 2d and 3d June, 1825, with the Osage and Kansas Indians, to be modified.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the provision heretofore made for carrying into effect the treaty of the second and third of June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, with the Osage and Kansas nations of Indians, shall be, and the same is hereby, modified so as to read “for the payment of the annuities to the Osage and Kansas Indians, as provided for by the third article of said treaties, of seven thousand dollars to the former, and three thousand five hundred dollars to the latter, annually, for twenty years,” ten thousand five hundred dollars.
Sums appropriated to be paid from the treasury. Proviso. Proviso.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the several sums hereby appropriated shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, however, That no money appropriated by this act shall be paid to any person, for his compensation, who is in arrears to the United States, until such person shall have accounted for, and paid into the treasury of the United States, all sums for which he may be liable: Provided, also, That nothing in this section contained shall be construed to extend to balances arising solely from the depreciation of treasury notes, received by such person, to be expended in the public service; but, in all cases where the pay or salary of any person is withheld, in pursuance of this act, it shall be the duty of the accounting officer, if demanded by the party, his agent, or attorney, to report forthwith, to the agent of the Treasury Department, the balance due; and it shall be the duty of the said agent, within sixty days thereafter, to order suit to be commenced against such delinquent and his sureties.
Approved, March 2, 1827.