United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/22nd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 231
[Expired.]
Chap. CCXXXI.—An Act to provide for the appointment of three commissioners to treat with the Indians, and for other purposes.
Commissioners to be appointed to examine the country set apart for emigrating Indians, &c. and to report proper locations, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President shall nominate, and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint three commissioners, who shall visit and examine the country set apart for the emigrating Indians, west of the Mississippi river; and shall, when it is necessary, enter into negotiations with them for the adjustment of any difficulties which may exist in the location of the lands of the emigrating Indians, in the boundaries thereof. Such commissioners shall also ascertain and report the proper places of location for such of the tribes and portions of tribes as may yet wish to remove to that country, and shall transmit to the War Department all the information they can procure respecting its climate, soil, and capacity to support the number of Indians who will probably remove to and reside in it.
Commissioners to convene hostile tribes, and endeavour to arrange their difficulties.
Act of May 28, 1830, ch. 148.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners shall be authorized to convene together such of the tribes as may be in a state of hostility, or as may be apparently disposed to commit, or may have committed, depredations or aggressions against others, and to endeavour to arrange the difficulties between them, so that the protection promised to the emigrating Indians by the sixth section of the act of May twenty-eight, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, may be secured to them.
To report a plan for the improvement of Indians.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners shall also report to the War Department a plan for the improvement, government, and security of the Indians.
To report relative to mode of emigrating.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners shall inquire into the mode in which the business of emigration has been conducted, and report any changes which would render the same more economical, or better adapted to the comfort and condition of the Indians.
To receive instructions from the War Department.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That in the discharge of their duties, the said commissioners shall be regulated by such instructions as they may receive from the War Department.
Appropriation.Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That twenty thousand dollars, for the purpose of carrying the provisions of this act into effect, be, and the same is appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Act limited to two years.Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be in force for the term of two years, and no longer.
Approved, July 14, 1832.