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Statute Ⅰ.


April 18, 1806.

Chap. LII.An Act supplementary to the act intituled “An act to extend jurisdiction in certain cases to the territorial courts.”

Provisions of a former act extended to the territories of the United States.
Act of Feb. 28, 1799, ch. 19.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of the act, intituled “An act for providing compensation for the marshals, clerks, attornies, jurors and witnesses, in the courts of the United States, and to repeal certain parts of the acts therein mentioned, and for other purposes,” passed February the twenty-eighth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, be, and the same hereby are extended to the territories of the United States, so far as the said act may relate to the provisions of the act, intituled “An act to extend jurisdiction in certain cases to the territorial courts,” passed March the third, one thousand eight hundred and five, excepting that the clerks of the said territorial courts shall not receive the additional five dollars per day,1805, ch. 38. allowed to the clerks of the circuit and district courts by the third section of the act first above mentioned.

Approved, April 18, 1806.

Statute Ⅰ.



April 21, 1806.

Chap. LIII.An Act making appropriations for carrying into effect certain Indian treaties.

Specific appropriations.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of carrying into effect a treaty between the United States and the Delawares, Potawatimies, Miamies, Eel river and Weaws, holden at Grouseland, near Vincennes, on the twenty-first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and five, the sum of one thousand six hundred dollars is hereby appropriated, to be paid to the said tribes, annually, as follows: to the Miamies, six hundred dollars; to the Eel river tribe, two hundred and fifty dollars; to the Weaws, two hundred and fifty dollars; which several annuities shall be permanent: and to the Potawatimies, annually, for the term of ten years, and no longer, the sum of five hundred dollars, in addition to former annuities.

Specific appropriation.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose of carrying into effect a treaty between the United States and the Wyandot, Ottawa, Munsee and Delaware, Shawanee, and Potawatimie nations, holden at Fort Industry, on the fourth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and five, the annual sum of eight hundred and twenty-five dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated.

Specific appropriations.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose of carrying into effect two treaties between the United States and the Cherokee Indians, holden at Tellico, on the twenty-fifth and twenty-seventh days of October, one thousand eight hundred and five, a sum of fifteen thousand six hundred dollars, and the further annual sum of three thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated.

Specific appropriations.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose of carrying into effect a convention between the United States and the Creek nation of Indians, concluded at the city of Washington, on the fourteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and five, a sum of twelve thousand dollars, annually, for eight years, and the sum of eleven thousand dollars, annually, for the term of ten years, next thereafter succeeding, be, and the same are hereby appropriated.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the several sums appropriated by this act, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, April 21, 1806.