United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/22nd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 109
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Chap. CIX.—An Act making appropriations for the Indian department for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.
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 they are hereby, appropriated for the Indian department for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, viz:
Superintendent and agents.For the pay of the superintendent of Indian affairs at St. Louis, and the several Indian agents, as established by law, including an agent for the Kansas, agreeably to a treaty with that tribe of June third, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, thirty-two thousand dollars.
Sub-agents.For the pay of sub-agents, as established by law, nineteen thousand dollars.
Presents.For presents to Indians, as authorized by act of one thousand eight hundred and two, fifteen thousand dollars.
Interpreters.For the pay of Indian interpreters and translators, employed in the several superintendencies and agencies, twenty-one thousand five hundred and twenty-five dollars
Gunsmiths, &c.For the pay of gunsmiths and blacksmiths, and their assistants, employed within the several superintendencies and agencies, under treaty provisions and the orders of the War Department, eighteen thousand three hundred and forty dollars.
Iron, &c.For iron, steel, coal, and other expenses attending the gunsmiths and blacksmiths’ shops, five thousand four hundred and twenty-six dollars.
Transportation.For expense of transportation and distribution of Indian annuities, nine thousand nine hundred and fifty-nine dollars.
Provisions, &c.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 public business, eleven thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars.
Houses, &c.For expense of building houses for Indian agents, blacksmiths’ shops, and for repairs of the same, when required, in the several agencies, seven thousand dollars.
Contingencies.Proviso.For contingencies of the Indian department, twenty thousand dollars: Provided, in no case shall any money hereby appropriated be used for the purpose of rewarding Indians for settling disputes among them.
Expenses of Indian deputation.
Proviso.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there be appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, for defraying the expenses of conducting a deputation of Indians from the head waters of the Missouri to Washington city, and from thence to their own country: Provided, That no compensation beyond their actual expenses for extra services, shall be allowed any Indian agent or sub-agent for services when doing duty under the order of their government, detached from their agency and boundary of the tribe to which they are agents.
Corn, &c. for Seminoles.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be, and hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, in the purchase and delivery of corn, or other provisions, for the use of the Seminole Indians, who are likely to suffer on account of the failure of their crops from a severe drought last year.
Approved, May 31, 1832.