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the treaty of twenty-ninth September, eighteen hundred and thirtyseven, ten thousand dollars:

For purchase of medicines, agricultural implements, and stock, support of farmers, physicians, blacksmith, and for other beneficial objects, for twenty years, stipulated in second article of treaty of twentyninth September, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; for purchase of provisions, for twenty years, stipulated in second article of treaty of twenty-ninth September, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, five thousand five hundred dollars; To the Yancton and Santee Sioux.-For blacksmith and assistant for ten years, and during the pleasure of the President, stipulated in the fourth article of treaty of fifteenth July, eighteen hundred and thirty, seven hundred and twenty dollars; for iron and steel, &c. for shop, two hundred and twenty dollars; for agricultural implements during the pleasure of the President, stipulated in the fourth article of treaty of fifteenth July, eighteen hundred and thirty, four hundred dollars;

To the Sacs and Foxes of Missouri.-For interest on investment in stock at five per centum, on one hundred and fifty-seven thousand four hundred dollars, stipulated in second article of treaty of twenty-first October, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, seven thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars;

To the Sacs and Foxes of Mississippi.-For permanent annuity stipulated in third article of treaty of third November, eighteen hundred and four, one thousand dollars;

For limited annuity, for thirty years, stipulated in third article of treaty of twenty-first September, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, twenty thousand dollars;

For blacksmith and assistant during the pleasure of the President, stipulated in fourth article of treaty of fourth August, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, eight hundred and forty dollars;

For iron and steel, &c. for shop, two hundred and twenty dollars; For blacksmith and assistant for thirty years, stipulated in fourth article of treaty of twenty-first September, eighteen hundred and thirtytwo, eight hundred and forty dollars;

For iron and steel, &c. for shop, two hundred and twenty dollars; For gunsmith, for thirty years, stipulated in fourth article of treaty of twenty-first September, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, six hundred dollars; for iron and steel, &c. for shop, two hundred and twenty dollars; For agricultural implements, during pleasure of the President, stipulated in fourth article of treaty of fourth August, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, eight hundred dollars;

For forty barrels of salt, for thirty years, stipulated in fourth article of treaty of twenty-first September, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, two hundred dollars; for forty kegs of tobacco, for thirty years, stipulated in fourth article of treaty of twenty-first September, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, six hundred dollars;

For limited annuity, for ten years, stipulated in second article of [treaty of] twenty-eighth September, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, ten thousand dollars;

For interest on investment in stock at five per centum on two hundred thousand dollars, stipulated in fourth article of treaty of twentyfirst October, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, ten thousand dollars; For interest on eight hundred thousand dollars at five per centum, stipulated in second article of treaty of eleventh October, eighteen hundred and forty-two, forty thousand dollars;

To the Shawnees. For permanent annuity, stipulated in fourth article of treaty of third August, seventeen hundred and ninety-five, one thousand dollars;

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Medicines, &c.

Provisions.

Yancton and Santee Sioux. Blacksmith.

Iron.
Agriculture.

Sacs and Foxes of Missouri. Interest.

Sacs and Foxes of Mississippi. Annuities.

Blacksmith.

Iron.
Blacksmith.

Iron.
Gunsmith.

Iron.
Agriculture.

Salt.

Tobacco.

Annuity.

Interest.

Shawnees.

Annuities.

1832, ch. 228.

Salt.

Blacksmith.

Iron.

Senecas and Shawnees. Annuity.

Blacksmith.

Iron.
Senecas.
Annuities.

Blacksmith.

Iron.
Miller.

Wyandotts.
Annuity.

Blacksmith.

Iron.

Blacksmith.

Iron.
Weas.

Annuity.

Winnebagoes.
Annuities.

Salt.

Tobacco.

Blacksmiths.

For permanent annuity, stipulated in fourth article of treaty of twenty-ninth September, eighteen hundred and seventeen, two thousand dollars;

For limited annuity, per act of fourteenth July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, two thousand dollars;

For purchase of salt, stipulated in third article of treaty of seventh June, eighteen hundred and three, sixty dollars;

For blacksmith and assistant, during pleasure of President, stipulated in fourth article of treaty of eighth August, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, eight hundred and forty dollars;

For iron and steel, &c. for shop, two hundred and twenty dollars; To the Senecas and Shawnees. For permanent annuity, stipulated in fourth article of treaty of seventeenth September, eighteen hundred and eighteen, one thousand dollars;

For blacksmith and assistant, during pleasure of the President, stipulated in fourth article of treaty of twentieth July, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, eight hundred and forty dollars;

For iron and steel, &c. for shop, two hundred and twenty dollars; To the Senecas. For permanent annuity, stipulated in fourth article of treaty of twenty-ninth September, eighteen hundred and seventeen, five thousand dollars;

For permanent annuity, stipulated in fourth article of treaty of seventeenth September, eighteen hundred and eighteen, five hundred dollars; For blacksmith and assistant, during pleasure of President, stipulated in fourth article of treaty of twenty-eighth February, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, eight hundred and forty dollars;

For iron and steel, &c. for shop, two hundred and twenty dollars; For pay of miller, during pleasure of the President, stipulated in fourth article of treaty of twenty-eighth February, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, six hundred dollars;

To the Wyandotts.-For permanent annuity, in lieu of all former annuities, stipulated in third article of the treaty with them of seventeenth March, eighteen hundred and forty-two, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars;

For the support of a blacksmith and assistant, stipulated in the tenth article of the treaty of twenty-ninth of September, eighteen hundred and seventeen, seven hundred and twenty dollars;

For the purchase of iron, steel, &c, for shop, two hundred and twenty dollars; for the support of a blacksmith and assistant, stipulated in the eighth article of the treaty of seventeenth of March, eighteen hundred and forty-two, seven hundred and twenty dollars; for the purchase of iron, steel, &c. for shop, two hundred and twenty dollars;

To the Weas.-For permanent annuity, stipulated in the fourth article of the treaty with them of the second October, eighteen hundred and eighteen, three thousand dollars;

To the Winnebagoes.-For limited annuity, stipulated in the second article of the treaty with them of the first of August, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, eighteen thousand dollars;

For limited annuity, stipulated in the third article of the treaty of the fifteenth of September, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, ten thousand dollars;

For the purchase of fifty barrels of salt, stipulated in the second article of the treaty of the first of August, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, two hundred and fifty dollars;

For the purchase of three thousand pounds of tobacco, stipulated in the same, three hundred and fifty dollars;

For the purchase of one thousand five hundred pounds of tobacco, stipulated in the fifth article of the treaty of fifteenth September, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, one hundred and seventy-five dollars; For the support of three blacksmiths and assistants, stipulated in the

third article of the treaty of the first of August, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars;

For the purchase of iron, steel, &c., for shops, six hundred and sixty dollars;

For pay of laborers and for oxen, stipulated in the same, three hundred and sixty-five dollars;

For the purpose of education, stipulated in the fourth article of the treaty of the fifteenth September, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, three thousand dollars;

Iron.

Laborers.

Education.

For the support of six agriculturists, purchase of oxen, ploughs, and Agriculture. other implements, stipulated in the fifth article of the same, two thousand five hundred dollars;

For the pay of two physicians, stipulated in the fifth article of the same, four hundred dollars;

For interest on investment in stock, at five per centum, on one million one hundred thousand dollars, stipulated in the fourth article of the treaty of first November, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, fifty-five thousand dollars.

To make good the interest on [the] investments in State stocks and bonds for Indian tribes, not yet paid by the States, to be reimbursed out of the interest when collected, twenty-seven thousand three hundred and sixty-six dollars and eighty-nine cents.

For ransoming a white boy, by the name of Frank Lee Witter, from the Camanches, two hundred dollars.

For expenses attending the holding of a Treaty with the Caddoes and other wandering tribes, under the act of March third, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, to be audited and settled by the proper accounting officers of the Department, in addition to former appropriations, two thousand one hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary. APPROVED, June 17, 1844.

Physicians.

Interest.

Ransom of boy from the Camanches.

Holding treaty

with Caddoes

and others. Act of March

3, 1835, ch. 50.

STATUTE I. June 17, 1844.

Allowed to en

in Louisiana.

CHAP. CXVII.-An Act to authorize the entry of certain lands, occupied by the branch pilots of the port of New Orleans, and others, in the State of Louisiana. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Andrew Anderson, James T. Allen, George Benson, John Bailey, John R. Brown, Ed- ter certain lands ward Bourguin, Jacob Baker, William Brownson, Robert Cooper, Edward Clarke, Thomas Cross, William C. Davis, Edward G. Davis, Ephraim Eldridge, William Ellis, Dennis Finn, Nathaniel J. France, John Fowler, Robert Holliday, John Holland, David Johnston, Henry Johnson, James J. Jarvis, George Linton, Cyrus Lamontt, Cyrus Morgan, James W. Morgan, John Miller, Hans Myers, Erasmus Newman, John Parker, John Perrin, Asa Payson, Peter Robinson, James B. Read, Francisco Reeper, David Shepherd, Joseph Shepherd, William T. Smith, Christopher Scheltz, William Stevens, James Scott, John Swiler, James Tyson, William D. Tolbortt, William Taylor, Thomas J. Vanderslice, James B. Williams, Hiram B. Webster, James Kelly, William Denford, Edward Hansbury, Joseph E. Dunham, Charles Linguist, Gilbert Leonard, and Joseph Lampade, all of the parish of Plaquemines in the State of Louisiana, or their legal representatives, be, and they are hereby, authorized to enter at the land office in the southeastern land district in said State, within six months after the passage of this act, section seventeen and lots one and two of section eighteen, in township twenty-three, of range thirty-three east, situated in said district, upon payment to the receiver of the said land office of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre: Provided, That at the time of making said entry, they shall file in the land office a survey and plat of the land entered, signed by them

Proviso.

To enure to verally. Proviso.

or their legal representatives, specifying thereon the extent of their several claims by occupancy; and that when the said entry shall be made, the same shall enure to the benefit of such persons, severally, in the proportions and according to the quantities specified on said plat: And provided further, That this act shall not invalidate any rights which any other person, not herein named, may be entitled to under any law heretofore passed.

APPROVED, June 17, 1844.

RESOLUTIONS.

March 4, 1844. No. 1. A Joint Resolution accepting the sword of Washington and staff of Franklin.

Preamble.

Sword and

staff accepted

to be deposited in State Dep't.

Whereas, by a joint resolution which passed both Houses of Congress during the third session of the twenty-seventh Congress, the sword of Washington and the staff of Franklin, presented to Congress by Samuel T. Washington, of Kenawha county, Virginia, were accepted in the name of the nation, and the thanks of Congress were presented therefor to the donor, and the President of the United States was directed to communicate to the said Samuel T. Washington a copy of said resolution. And whereas, said resolution did not reach the President of the United States before the adjournment of Congress, and did not therefore receive his approval and signature. And whereas, the President of the United States did communicate to the said Samuel T. Washington a copy of said resolution: Therefore, in order to vest the title to said relics in the United States,

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That said sword and staff are hereby accepted in the name of the Nation, and that they be deposited in the Department of State of the United States for safe-keeping. APPROVED, March 4, 1844.

April 30, 1844. No. 2. Joint Resolution of respect for the memory of the donor of the Camp Chest of General Washington.

Sense of the

value of the be quest testified to family of W. S. Winder by Congress.

the widow and

April 30, 1844.

Camp chest accepted, and to be deposited

as a precious relic in the Dep't

of State.

April 30, 1844.

Settlements for

supplies furnished militia under

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Senate and House of Representatives take pleasure in recognising to the widow and family of the late William Sydney Winder, their high sense of the value of the bequest contained in his will, and in expressing their respect for the memory of the donor.

APPROVED, April 30, 1844.

No. 3, Joint Resolution accepting the Camp Chest of General Washington. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Camp Chest of General George Washington, which he used during the revolutionary war, bequeathed, by the last will of the late William Sydney Winder, to the Congress of the United States, be and the same is hereby accepted, and that the same be deposited, as a precious relic, to be preserved in the Department of State.

APPROVED, April 30, 1844.

No. 4. Joint Resolution respecting the application of certain appropriations hereto fore made.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in settling for supplies furnished to militia in the service of the United States under the act

of twenty-third August, eighteen hundred and forty-two, the accounting officers be directed to discharge the claims for said supplies in the following order, to wit: First, the amounts due to individual claimants, and secondly, those due to the Territory of Florida: Provided, that the whole amount of supplies paid for shall not exceed the quantity of each description to which the said troops were entitled by existing laws. APPROVED, April 30, 1844.

act of Aug. 23, 1842, ch. 192, charged.

how to be dis

Proviso.

No. 5. Joint Resolution providing for the printing of additional copies of the jour- April 30, 1844. nals and public documents.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall hereafter be printed fifty copies of the public journals and documents of the Senate, and one hundred copies of the public journals and documents of the House of Representatives, in addition to the number now required by law to be printed; and that fifty copies of said journals and documents, in addition to the number now deposited with the Secretary of State, shall hereafter be annually delivered to that officer for distribution according to law; and the residue of said journals and documents shall be deposited in the Library of Congress. APPROVED, April 30, 1844.

Additional co

pies of journals and documents to be printed,

&c.

Post, p. 718.

No. 6. Joint Resolution in relation to certain property purchased for the use of the May 23, 1844. United States at the port of Bath, in the State of Maine.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall have charge of a certain lot, with the buildings thereon and appurtenances, late the property of the President, Directors and Company of the Bath Bank, in the town of Bath, in the State of Maine, taken in execution at the suit of the United States, sold and bought in by the United States, some years since; and he shall have power to set apart the said premises for the use of a custom-house and such other public uses as he may judge to be expedient and proper, until the further order of Congress in the matter. APPROVED, May 23, 1844.

Sec. Treas. to have charge of a lot sold as the

property of the Bath Bank, and United States. bought in by the

No. 9. Resolution authorizing the corporation of Baltimore to use a building of June 3, 1844. the United States at Lazaretto Point.

Corporate authorities of Baltimore may use the building at Lazaretto Point.

&c.

Proviso.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the mayor and city council of Baltimore be and they are hereby authorized to use, as often as may be found necessary, the public building at Lazaretto Point, near the harbor of the port of Baltimore, for the reception and accommodation of such passengers in ships or vessels arriving at that port as may from time to time be reported in an unhealthful state: Provided, That in such use of said building by the city of Baltimore, the same shall not interfere with or obstruct the occupation thereof in the manner and for the purposes required by the Government: And provided, further, Proviso. That the said occupation of said building by the city of Baltimore, shall be discontinued or suspended upon the requisition of the Secretary of the Treasury, whenever he shall deem it necessary for the use of the Government.

APPROVED, June 3, 1844.

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