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THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. C15:. 79. 1859. 409 _ .XXIX.—-An Ad makin A `ations ul llin SD nul rb S ‘ Mwlh 3, i859· Cll};PYd'ncton and Tonawanda Incianggdrpllhe Yw1cnTd;zfJungi}ziz;ilellz,€i%te(;rihitndgd Af"? and sixty, andjbr other Purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represematives of the United States of America in Congress assemtled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not other- Appropriation. wise appropriated, for the purpose of fulfilling treaty stipulations with the Yancton and Tonawanda Indians. Ymcton, Sioux, or Dacotah Bzd*ians.——For the first of ten instalments Y¤¤¤*¤0¤· Sioux to be paid to them or expended for their benefit, commencing with the §Qm1;°°°mh II" year in which they shall remove to and settle and reside upon their reser- Pm H4 vation, per fourth article treaty nineteenth April, eighteen hundred and 'p' ' fifty-eight, sixty-five thousand dollars. For maintaining and subsisting said Indians during the first year after their removal to and permanent settlement upon their said reservation; in the purchase of stock, agricultural implements, or other articles of a benencial character, and in breaking up and fencing land, in the erection of houses, storehouses, or other needful buildings; or in making such other improvements as may be necessary for their comfort and welfare, per fourth article treaty nineteenth April, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, twenty-five thousand dollars. For building a school-house, or school-houses, and to establish and maintain one or more normal labor schools (so far as said sum will go) for the education and training of the children of said Indians in letters, agriculture, the mechanic arts, and housewifery; which school or schools shall be managed and conducted in such manner as the Secretary of the Interior shall direct, per fourth article treaty nineteenth April, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, ten thousand dollars. For providing said Indians with a mill suitable for grinding grain and sawing lumber; one or more mechanic shops, with the necessary tools for the same, and dwelling-houses for an interpreter, miller, engineer for the mill, (if one be necessary,) a farmer, and the mechanics that may be employed for their benefit, per fourth article treaty nineteenth April, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, fifteen thousand dollars. For the expenses of making this agreement, and of surveying the said Yancton reservation, and of surveying and marking the pipe-stone quarry, per eighth and sixteenth articles treaty nineteenth April, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Tmawandm.—For payment and investment of this sum for the sur- Ton¤·w¤ndasrender and relinquishment of lands west of the State of Missouri, per second article treaty fifth November, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, two Post, p. 736. hundred and fifty-six thousand dollars. Cree/c Nation.-For payment of the remaining sum of two hundred Creek Nation. thousand dollars, retained by the United States until the removal of the Seminole Indians in Florida to the country west of the Mississippi, with interest at five per centum per annum, from twenty-eighth August, eighteen hundred and Efty-six, the date of the ratification of the treaty to the third March, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, per sixth article treaty of the seventh August, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, two hundred and twenty- Pm, p. 701. five thousand one hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents. Florida lhdians of [or] Seminoles.-—For interest on two hundred and Florida Indiana fifty thousand dollars, at five per centum, to be paid as annuity, per eighth ‘”` S°"“”°1°‘· article treaty seventh August, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, they having Pm 702 joined their brethren in the West, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. ’ P' ` For payments under existing contracts for carrying the mails as follows, viz: For the transportation of the mails from Panama to California and Transportation Oregon and back, from July first to September thirtieth, eighteen hundred °f;;‘ga”I:;l’bau_ and fifty-nine, eighty-seven thousand and sixty-two dollars and fifty fomia, and on, cents. 80*1- voL. xr. PUn.—52