United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/21st Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 26
Chap. XXVI.—An Act to provide hereafter for the payment of six thousand dollars annually to the Seneca Indians, and for other purposes.
Secretary of War authorized to pay 6,000 dollars annually, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proceeds of the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, being the amount placed in the hands of the President of the United States, in trust, for the Seneca tribe of Indians, situated in the state of New York, be hereafter passed to the credit of the Indian appropriation fund; and that the Secretary of War be authorized to receive and pay over to the Seneca tribe of Indians, the sum of six thousand dollars, annually, in the way and manner as heretofore practised, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be authorized to receive and pay over to the Seneca tribe of Indians, the sum of two thousand six hundred and fourteen dollars and forty cents, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, on account of the deficiency, by that amount, in the sum paid over to said Indians the last year.
Approved, February 19, 1831.