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Superintendent and agents.For pay of the superintendent of Indians affairs at St. Louis, and the several Indian agents, as authorized to law, twenty-six thousand dollars.

Clerk.For clerk in the office of superintendent of Indian affairs, one thousand dollars.

Sub-agents.For pay of sub-agents, as allowed by law, sixteen thousand five hundred dollars.

Interpreters, &c.For pay of interpreters and translators, employed at the several superintendencies and agencies, eighteen thousand eight hundred dollars.

Guns and blacksmiths, &c.For pay of gun and blacksmiths, and their assistants, employed within the several superintendencies and agencies under the orders of the War Department, six thousand four hundred and eighty dollars.

Presents.
Act of 1802, ch. 13, sec. 13.
For presents to Indians, as authorized by the act of eighteen hundred and two, fifteen thousand dollars.

Provisions.For provisions for Indians at the distribution of annuities while on visits of business with the different superintendents and agents, and when assembled on public business, eleven thousand eight hundred dollars.

Buildings.For the necessary buildings required at the several agencies, and repairs thereof, two thousand dollars.

Contingencies.For contingencies of the Indian department, twenty thousand dollars.

Holding treaty.For holding a treaty with the Wyandot tribe of Indians, one thousand dollars.

Approved, June 18, 1834.

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June 19, 1834.

Chap. LIV.An Act to revive the act entitled “An act to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on the public lands,” approved May twenty-nine, one thousand eight hundred and thirty.[1]

Act of May 29, 1830, ch. 208, revived, and extended to those who settled and cultivated land in 1833.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That every settler or occupant of the public lands, prior to the passage of this act, who is now in possession, and cultivated any part thereof, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, shall be entitled to all the benefits and privileges provided by the act entitled “An act to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on the public lands,” approved May twenty-nine, one thousand eight hundred and thirty; and the said act is hereby revived and shall continue in force two years from the passage of this act and no longer.

Choice of quarter sections allowed.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That where a person inhabits one quarter section and cultivates another, he shall be permitted to enter the one or the other at his discretion: Provided, Such occupant shall designate, within six months from the passage of this act, the quarter section of which he claims the pre-emption under the same.

Settlers on the public lands before 1829 may enter a quarter section at the minimum price.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all persons residing on the public lands, and cultivating the same, prior to the year eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, and who were deprived of the advantages of the law passed on the twenty-ninth May, eighteen hundred and thirty, by the constructions placed on said law by the Secretary of the Treasury, be, and they are hereby authorized to enter, at the minimum price of the government, one quarter section of the public lands, within said land district.

Approved, June 19, 1834.

  1. See notes of the acts relating to pre-emption of public lands, vol. iv. p. 420.