THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sisss. I. Ch. 167. 1854. 331 For payment of balance found due the Creek Indians for losses sus- Weekstained during the war with Great Britain, by that portion of the tribe who were friendly to and cooperated with the United States, in addition to the appropriation of the thirtieth of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, two hundred and fifty-eight dollars and ten cents ; For payment to certain Creek Indians for their individual reserves, sold with the approbation of the Secretary of War, in the year eighteen . hundred and forty-one, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs having received the consideration for the use of said Indians, in certificates of deposit on the Planters and Mechanics Bank of Columbus, Georgia, which failing while said certificates were in the hands of the commissioner, became lost to said Indians, two thousand six hundred dollars. Texas Indians.- For compensation to three special agents and four Tum [mums, interpreters for the Indian tribes of Texas, and for the purchase of presents, fifteen thousand dollars ; For the expenses of making the necessary selections and surveys of land to accommodate the Indians residing within the State of Texas, agreeably to arrangements authorized by an act of the legislature of that State, allowing the requisite jurisdiction of the Government of the United States for such purposes, and for concentrating and subsisting them, and furnishing suitable stock cattle, agricultural implements, seeds, and other necessary articles incident thereto, eighty-six thousand four hundred and thirty dollars. ]l£sceZZane0us.—For the second and third of ten instalments of pro- Miscellaneous. visions and merchandise, in addition to former appropriations, for pay- ment of annuities and transportation of same to certain tribes of Indians, per seventh article of the treaty at Fort Laramie, of seventeenth of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, twenty-four thousand dollars; For the fourth of ten instalments in provisions and merchandise, for payment of annuities and transportation of the same to certain tribes of Indians, per seventh article of the treaty at Fort Laramie, of seventeenth of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, seventy-two thousand dollars ; For surveying and marking boundary lines of such tract or tracts of land as may be provided under the stipulations of the amendments of P0 { 949 954 the Senate to the treaties of twenty-third July and fifth August, eigh- S"PP' ’ ` teen hundred and fifty-one, with the Sioux Indians, one thousand two hundred dollars ; For expenses of negotiating treaties of the tenth of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, with the Rogue River Indians, Post, p. 1018. and of the nineteenth of September, eighteen hundred and fifty- P"”¤ P' 1°27· three, with the Cow-Creek band of Umpqua Indians, five thousand dollars. For continuing the collection and for publishing the statistics and Statistics, other information authorized by the act of third of March, eighteen hun- 1847, ch. 66. dred and forty-seven, and subsequent acts, twenty thousand nine hundred lg?} dollars- 1852: chi csi Sue. 2. And be it further enacteat That no existing provisions of law, 1853, ch. 104. prescribing the manner in which payment shall be made to Indians, shall Mode of mab be so construed as to repeal or contravene the seventeenth section of an aug payments to act entitled “An act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian l¤di¤¤¤· tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers," approved, June thirtieth, 1853* °h` 1O4_’§ B' eighteen hundred and thirty-four, or to prohibit the payment of any 1834*°h'1°1 claim or claims (other than those of agents or attorneys for claims) for bond jide services rendered within or upon any Indian territory, to any Indian tribe for medical or manual services, or in cases of humanity, where the President may adjudge such service necessary and the claim or claims therefore just and reasonable.
