# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/25th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 97

Chap. XCVII.—An Act making appropriations for preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and for arrearages for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven.
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, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise1836, ch. 44. 1836, ch. 254. To be expended under direction of Sec’y. War, conformably, &c. appropriated, to defray the expenses which have been, or may be, incurred, in preventing or suppressing the hostilities of any Indians, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, conformably to the acts of Congress of the nineteenth of March and the second of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and of the acts therein referred to; and for arrearages of the same for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven:
Forage for horses.For forage for the horses of the dragoons, volunteers, officers, and in the service of the trains, four hundred thousand dollars;
Freight, &c. of military supplies.For freight transportation of military supplies sent into Florida and the Cherokee country, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars;
Wagons, carts, &c.For wagons, carts, ambulances, and harness, and for boats and lighters, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars;
Transportation of supplies from principal depots, &c.For the transportation of supplies from the principal depots to the points of consumption, including the hire of steamboats and other vessels, and the expense of public steamers and transport schooners, seven hundred thousand dollars;
Hire of mechanics, &c.For the hire of a corps of mechanics, laborers, mule-drivers, teamsters, wagon-masters, and other assistants, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars;
Transportation, &c. of volunteers.For transportation and other expenses of four thousand volunteers, one hundred thousand dollars;
Miscellaneous and contingent expenses.For miscellaneous and contingent charges of all kinds, not embraced under the foregoing heads, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars;
Drafts lying over, and arrearages.For drafts lying over, and arrearages for services and supplies in Florida and the Cherokee country, one million forty-eight thousand six hundred dollars;
Pay of volunteers for 1838, including arrearages for 1837.For pay of four thousand volunteers, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, including one hundred and fifty-three thousand four ​hundred and fifteen dollars arrearages for eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, one million four hundred and sixteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars and thirty-two cents;
Subsistence for militia, &c.For subsistence for militia, volunteers, and friendly Indians, three hundred and sixty-five thousand and forty dollars;
Purchase of powder, &c.For the purchase of powder and other materials for cartridges, together with the repairs of gun-carriages, small-arms, and accoutrements, thirty-five thousand dollars;
Tents, knapsacks, &c.For tents, knapsacks, and other supplies furnished by the clothing bureau, twenty thousand six hundred and seventy-seven dollars and fifty-six cents;
Correcting an error in paying the Indians employed in Florida.For correcting an error in paying the Indians employed in the public service in Florida, seven thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars and fifty-three cents;
Objects specified in 3d art. of supplementary articles of treaty of 1835 with Cherokees, &c.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the further sum of one million forty-seven thousand and sixty-seven dollars be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full, for all objects specified in the third article of the supplementary articles of the treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty-five, between the United States and the Cherokee Indians, and for the further object of aiding in the subsistence of said Indians for one year after their removal west: Provided,Proviso. Further proviso. That no part of the said sum of money shall be deducted from the five millions stipulated to be paid to said tribe of Indians by said treaty: And provided, further, That the said Indians shall receive no benefit from the said appropriation, unless they shall complete their emigration within such time as the President shall deem reasonable, and without coercion on the part of the Government.
For satisfying all claims for annuities, &c.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That, for satisfying all claims for arrearages of annuities, for supplying blankets and other articles of clothing for the Cherokees who are not able to supply themselves, and which may be necessary for their comfortable removal, and for medicines and medical assistance, and for such other purposes as the President shall deem proper to facilitate the removal of the Cherokees, one hundred thousand dollars be appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, June 12, 1838.