The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-11-06


and stock; pay of necessary employees; pur
chase of clothing, medicine, iron, and steel; es-
tablishment and maintenance of schools, and
bnllding houses for the Indians lately residing IN
Texas, in lieu of those abandoned in that State
to be expended under the direction of the Secre-
fary tar, OF the Interior twenty-five thousand elght
For the Wichitas and other affiliated Bands
For the expenses of colonizing, supporting, and
ments and stock, pay of necessary employees,
purchase of clothing, medicines, iron, and STEEL
and maintenance Of schools, and building ageRcy
houses, to be expended under the direction OF
the Secretary of the Interior, thirty-seven thou
sand eight hundred dollars.
Indian Service in California For the general
incidental expenses of the Indian service in Cali
fornia, including travelling expenses OF the super
intending agents, seven Thousand five hundred
dollars.
Miscellaneous.-For transportation, and neces-
sary expenses of the delivery of Pawnee, Ponca,
and Yancton Sioux annuity goods and provisions,
ten thousand dollars.
For transportation, and necessary expenses of
the delivery of annuities and provisions to the
Indian tribes in Minnesota and Michigan, twenty
thousand three hundred and fifty dollars and six
ty-two cents.
For expenses of transportation and delivery of
annuity goods to the Blackfeet Indians for the
year. seventeen thousand dollars.
For transportation and necessary expenses OF
the delivery of annuities and provisions to the
Chippewas of Lake Superior, five thousand seven
hundred and siXty-two dollars and sixty-three
cents.
For transportation and necessary expenses of
Chippewas of the Mississippi, three thousand
eight hundred and eighty-six dollars and seventy
five cents.
For compensation of five extra clerks employ
ed in the Indian Office, under the act OF fifth
August, eighteen hundred and ffty-four, and
third March, eighteen hundred and fifty-fve, and
under appropriations made from year to year,
seven Thousand dollars.
For compensation of one clerk in the Indian
office to enable the Secretary of the Interior to
carry out the regulations prescribed to give effect
to the seventh section of the act of March third,
eighteen hundred and fifty-five, granting bounty
lands to Indians fovrteen hundred dollars.
For compensation OF two extra clerks in the
Indian office, employed to carry out the treaty
with the Chfckasaws in the adjustment of their
claims, two thousand eight hundred dollars.
For expenses attending the vaccination OF In
dians, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For the payment to the Shawnees of the resi-
due of seven hundred thousand dollars, to be
paid after the termination of the seven years
stipulated for in the third article of the treaty OF
tenth May, eighteen hundred and ftty-four,
eighty nine thousand dollars.
Umpquas and Calapooias of Umpqua Valley
For the first and second instalments of the sec
>Ond series of annuities of two thousand three
hundred dollars each, not heretofore asked for,
for beneficial objects, to be expended as directed
by the President, four thousand six hundred dol
lars.
For medallons of the President of the United
States for distribution to Indian tribes, five thou
sand dollars.
dian service in Oregon and Washington Territory,
including insurance and transportation OF annul-
ty goods and presents, [where no special provis-
ion therefor is made by treaties,l and office and
travelling expenses of the superintendent and
sub-agenIs, thirty five thousand dollars.
For defraying the expenses of the removal and
subsistence OF indians in Oregon and " ashing-
ton Territory mot parties to any treaty. and for
pay of necessary employees, fifty thousand dol
lars Provided, That all appropriations hereto
fore or hereafter made to carry into effect treaty
stipulatons, or otherwise, in behalf OF any tribe
or tribes of Indians, all or any portion of whom
shall be in state of actual hostility to the gov
ernment of the United States, including the
Cherokees, Greeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Semi
noes, .Wichitas, ard other affiliated tribes, may
and shall be suspended and postponed wholly or
in part at and during the discretion and pleasure
of the President: Provided, further, That the
President is authorized to expend such part of
the amount heretofore appropriated and not
pended and hereinbefore appropriated for the
benefit OF the tribes named in the preceding pro-
vlSO rs he may deem necessary, for the relief and
support of such individual members of said tribes
as have been driven from their homes and reduced
to want on account of their friendship to the gov
ernment. And an account shall be kept of the
sums, so paid for the benefit of such tribe which
account shall be rendered to Congress at the
commencement CT tne next session thereof AND
all purchases of articles for the purposes above
set forth, shall be made advertisement
provided in other cases. and an account shall be
rendered OF all such purchases, with statement
of the prices paid therefor: And provided, fur
ther, That in cases where the tribal organization
of any Indian tribe shall be in actual hostility to
the United States, the President is hereby au-
thorized by proclamation, to declare all treaties
with such tribe to be abrogated by such tribe if,
with good faith and legal and national obligations.
To carry into effect the treaty of February
eighteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, with
Arapahoes and Cheyenne Indians OF the Upper
Arkansas River, viz:
For surveying the exterior of the reservation,
and dividing the same between the two tribes,
estimated to be three hundred and fifty miles, at
an expense of ten dollars per mile for surveying,
three thousand five hundred dollars.
For the first of fifteen instalments of annuity of
thirty thousand dollars, to be expended for their
benefit, fifteen thousand dollars
per annum for each tribe, commencing with the
year in which they shall remove to and settle on
their reservations, for the fiscal year ending June
thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, thirty
thousand dollars.
For transportation and necessary expenses of
delivering of annuities, goods, and provisions to
the Arapahoes and Cheyenne Indians of the Up
per Arkansas River for the fiscal year ending
June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-two five
thousand dollars
Also for the same object for the fiscal year end
ing June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty
three, five thousand dollars.
+ For the purpose of negotiating treaty with
the Chippewas of northern Minnesota, and the
extinguishing of their title to the lands in that
vicinity, SO much thereof as may be needed
for that purpose, to be expended under the di-
rection of the Secretary of the Interior, fifteen
thousand dollars.
For defraying expenses of negotiating treaty
with the Shoshonees Snake Indians, or SO
much thereof as may be needed, to be expended
under the direction of the Secretary of the Inte-
rior, twenty thousand dollars.
For amount IN the hands OF late agent w. w.
Denpison, unaccounted for, belonging to the Ot-
toes and Missourias eighteen thousand nine hum
dred and seventy dollars and seven cents.
For deficiency in the contingent fund of the
Indian department. for the balance of the half
year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and
sixty-two, ten thousand dollars
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That after
the end of the present fiscal year the salary of
the superintendent of Indian affairs for the north
ern and for the southern districts of California
shall be three thousand dollars.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted That the
sum of forty Thousand collars, or so much there
of as may be necessary, be, and the same is here
by appropriated fo enable the President to nego-
tiate a treaty with the Nez Perce Indians of Ore
gon and Washington Territory, for the relin-
quishment of portion or all of their present re-
servation, or its exchange for other lands.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That under
any of the appropriations contained in this act
for the purpose ofnegotiating treaties there shall
be new engagements entered into to pay mon
eys to any Indian tribe; that all payments to be
made under such treaties shall be made in specific
articles of clothing and agricultural implements.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That here
after goods shall be purchased by the Indian
Department or its agents, for any tribe, except