THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 66. 1852. 23 June, eighteen hundred and nfty-two, eleven thousand five hundred dollars. For payment to the following named tribes of Indians of the under- Indian Ausirs. mentioned sums due them, retained by the late Sub Indian-Agent, William H. Bruce, the same to be reimbursed to the United States when recovered from said sub-agent or his sureties, viz.:—· To Menomonees, nine thousand four hundred and sixty-six dollars and twenty-seven cents. To Chippewas, Menomonees, Winnebagoes, and New York Indians, tive hundred and twenty-one dollars and fifty-nine cents. To Six Nations of New York, (Stockbridge,) twenty-two dollars and fifty cents. To Stockbridge, one thousand eight hundred and six dollars. For expenses of treaty with the Mississippi and St. Peter’s Sioux, for the extinguishment of their title to lands in Minnesota. Territory, being in addition to the appropriation for the same object made thirtieth September, eighteen hundred and fifty, four thousand two hundred and 1850, ch. 91. seventy-two dollars and thirty-eight cents. For expenses of treating with the Indians and half breeds, for the extinguishment of the title to their lands on the Red River of the north, in the Territory of Minnesota, being in addition to the appropriation for the same object, made thirtieth September, eighteen hundred and fifty, 1850, cn. 91. nine hundred and one dollars and ive cents. For fulfilling treaties with the Winnebagoes, viz.: purchase of tobacco, Vol. vii, pp. 323, per second article of treaty of first August, eighteen hundred and twenty- BIL nine, and fifth article of treaty of fifteenth September, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, three hundred and seventy-tive dollars. For fulfilling treaties with Ottowas and Chippewas, viz.: purchase of V0, VH ,92 tobacco, per fourth article of treaty of twenty-eighth March, eighteen`P` ' hundred and thirty-six, three hundred dollars. For fulfilling treaties with the Sacs and Foxes of the Mississippi, viz.: V I i. 375 purchase of tobacco, per fourth article of treaty of the twenty-first Sep- °V L p` ` tember, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, two hundred dollars. For fulfilling treaties with the Menomonees, viz.: purchase of tobacco, VO, VH P 50,, per second article of treaty of third September, one thousand eight hun-'` dred and thirty-six, one hundred dollars. For the payment of annuities (and the transportation of the same) to certain tribes of Indians, in accordance with the seventh article of the treaty made at Fort Laramie, on the seventeenth day of September, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and fifty-one, sixty thousand dollars. And the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to purchase the provisions, merchandise, domestic animals, and agricultural implements, to be delivered in payment of the annuity first payable under the seventh article of said treaty, without previous advertisement, if such purchases can be so made on reasonable terms. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there be appropriated, out _Printing or of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum suiii- of “P‘ cient to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay for printing four · P ` hundred and fifty copies of the estimates of appropriations for the service of the fiscal year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, at the rate paid by him for the printing of the Treasury Department by contract, under the provisions of the seventeenth section of the act of the twenty- sixth August, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two. 1842, eh. 202. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That no part of the appropriations md-E:5Ym“£;5W*° herein made for the benefit of any tribe or part of a tribe of Indians, made_ shall be paid to any attorney or agent of such tribe or part of a tribe; but shall, in every case, be paid directly to the Indians themselves, to whom it shall be due, or to the tribe or part of a tribe, per capita, unless the imperious interest of the Indians shall require the payment to be
