Indian annuities, &c.lands, by the fifth article of the treaty of thirtieth August, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, two thousand dollars.
For the payment of claims of sundry individuals against the Ottaways, guarantied by the seventh article, and enumerated in the sixteenth of the same treaty, also to be reimbursed out of the sales of their lands, twenty-one thousand two hundred and ninety-two dollars and twenty-five cents.
For the services of a person to certify contracts for the sale of Creek lands, by the third article of the treaty of twenty-fourth March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, one thousand dollars.
For expenses of defending suits, and so forth, instituted by intruders against Creek Indians, and keeping off intruders, by the fifth article of the same treaty, three thousand dollars.
For incidental expenses attending the aforesaid treaties, not otherwise enumerated, five thousand dollars.
Approved, February 20, 1833.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
Chap. XLI.—An Act to authorize the laying out and constructing a road from Line Creek to the Chatahooche, and for repairing the road on which the mail is now transported.
Appropriation for post-road.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of twenty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury, for the purpose of laying out and making a post-road through the Creek nation of Indians, commencing at Line creek, in the state of Alabama, and terminating at the Chatahoochie, opposite Columbus, in the state of Georgia.
Superintendent to be appointed.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, for the early accomplishment of this object, the President shall appoint a superintendent of said road, whose duty it shall be, under the direction of the President, to divide the same into sections of not more than ten miles each, to contract for, and personally superintend the opening and making the said road, as well as to receive, disburse, and faithfully account with the treasury for all sums of moneys by him received by virtue of this act,Salary. and the said superintendent shall receive, during the time he is so employed, at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum.
Repairs.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That, for the repairs of the road through said Creek nation, on which the mail is now transported, until the road authorized by this act is completed, the further sum of two thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Postmaster General, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated.
Approved, February 20, 1833.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XLII.—An Act to authorize the legislature of the state of Ohio to sell the land reserved for the support of religion in the Ohio Company’s, and John Cleves Symmes’ purchases.
Vol. i. 251.
Act of April 21, 1792, ch. 25.
[Private act.]
Application of proceeds.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the legislature of the state of Ohio shall be, and is hereby, authorized to sell and convey, in fee simple, all or any part of the lands heretofore reserved and appropriated by Congress for the support of religion within the Ohio Company’s, and John Cleeves Symmes’ purchases, in the state of Ohio, and to invest the money arising from the sale thereof, in some productive fund; the proceeds of which shall be for ever annually applied, under the direction of said legislature, for the support of religion within the several town-
