Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-05-04
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AN ACT making appropriations for the Indian Depart
 msnt for the year one thousand eight hundred thirty
 one. ''
 Be t enacted 6y the Senate and House of Representatives. fMe United States Of .4me- rica n Congress assembled, That the fol- lowing sums be appropriated. to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, for the Indian Department, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty y-one, viz:
 For pay of the Superintendent of Indian Affairs at St Louis and the several Indian agents, as authorized by law, twenty mine thousand five hundred dollars.
 For pay of sub-agents, as authorized by law, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars.
 For presents to Indians, as authorized by the act of one thousand eight hundred and twelve, fifteen thousand dollars.
 For pay of Indian interpreters and transla- tors employed at the several superintendent cies and agencies, twenty thousand five hundred and twenty yfve dollars.
 For pay of gun and blacksmiths, and their assistants, employed within the superinten- dencies and agencies, under the treaty pro- visions and the orders of the Secretary of War; eighteen thousand three hundred and forty dollars.
 For iron, steel, coal, and other expenses at tending the gun and black smiths shop, five thousand four hundred and twenty six dol lars.
 For expenses of transportation and distri- button of Indian annuities, nine thousand nine hundred and fifty-nine dollars
 For expense of provisions for Indians at the distribution of annuities while on visits of business with the different superintendents and agents, and when assembled on business, eleven thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars.
 For contingencies of the Indian Depart ment, twenty thousand dollars
 For expenses incurred in surveying the northwestern boundary lines of the Miami and Potawatamie sessions by treaties of six teenth October, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, and twenty third October, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, two hundred and twenty dollars.
 For surveying and dividing the reservation granted to the half-breed Sacs and Foxes by the treaty of fourth August, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, two thousand dollars.
 For the payment of sundry claims for In- dian depredations, heretofore allowed at the Department of War, one thousand three hun dred dollars.
 For payments made for provisions and ne- cessary assistance to Indians emigrating to the West, and to those tribes now settled on or near the Kanzas river, West of the Mis- sour, in addition to the appropriation here tofore made for that object by act of ninth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight, three thousand five hundred and sixty two dollars eighty-six cents.
 For provisions and other assistance to h. dans removing to the West from Ohio, Indi- ana, Illinois and Missouri, required in one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, five thousand dollars.
 For building houses for Indian agents, sub agents, blacksmith's shops in all the several agencies, seven thousand dollars
 Sec. 9. And De h further enacted, That the following sums, Carried to the surplus fund, at the commencement of the present year, be, and the same are hereby appropri- ated, viz: For additional expense at theRed river agen- cy per act of ninth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, thirteen hundred dollars. For extinguishment ofthe title ofthe Creeks to land in Georgia, per act twenty-sixth May,