Appropriation to the Delawares.To the Delawares for interest at five per cent. on forty-six thousand and eighty dollars, being the value of thirty-six sections of land set apart by the treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty-two, for education purposes, and for which they have agreed to accept two dollars per acre, as authorized by the Senate, in its resolution of the nineteenth January last, which resolution also provides for the investment of the amount, two thousand three hundred and four dollars;
Treaty with the Creeks.For holding a treaty with the Creeks for the purpose of adjusting their claims for property and improvements abandoned or lost on consequence of their emigration West of the Mississippi, two thousand dollars;
Depredations by the Osage and Camanche Indians.For payment of the amount of depredations committed by the Osage and Camanche Indians on the property of the Choctaw Indians, eight hundred and twenty-five dollars;
Treaty with the Wyandots of Ohio.For expenses of holding a treaty with the Wyandot Indians of the State of Ohio, one thousand five hundred dollars;
Visit of a delegation from the Seneca Indians.For payment of the expense of a delegation from the Seneca Indians who visited Washington, to protest against the ratification of a late treaty entered into with them by a commissioner acting under the authority of the United States, seven hundred and eighty-nine dollars and twenty-three cents;
Visit of a delegation of Senecas.For the expenses of the delegation of the Senecas, who visited Washington to urge the ratification of the late treaty with them and the other New York Indians, and the expenses of negotiating that Treaty with the Senecas and the other bands of New York Indians, including all the expenses incident thereto, nine thousand five hundred dollars.
Resubmitting to those Indians the treaty as amended.For the expenses of submitting again to those Indians the Treaty as amended and ratified by the Senate for the purpose of obtaining their assent to the amended Treaty, four thousand dollars.
Treaty with the Osages.For holding a treaty with the Osages for the extinguishment of their title to reservations in lands within other tribes and for other purposes, two thousand dollars.
Visit of Sac and Fox Indians to Washington.For defraying the expenses of fourteen Sac and Fox Indians, who were induced to visit Washington by the false representations of their conductor, two hundred and twenty-one dollars and fifty cents.
Negotiations with the Miamies.For the purposes of defraying expenses of negotiations with the Miami Indians, eight hundred and sixty dollars, to be paid to the following persons in the following proportions, to wit:
W. Marshall for service.To William Marshall for forty-two days’ service as Commissioner, three hundred and thirty-six dollars.
H. L. Ellsworth for service.To Henry L. Ellsworth for fifty-four days’ service as Commissioner, four hundred and thirty dollars, and to Allen Hamilton for seventeen days’ services as Secretary, one hundred and two dollars.
Exploring party of Miamies.To defray the expenses of an exploring party of Miamies Indians, the sum of nineteen hundred and ninety dollars.
Temporary subsistence to certain Indians west of the Mississippi.For affording temporary subsistence to such Indians west of the Mississippi, who, by reason of their recent emigration or the territorial arrangements incident to the policy of setting apart a portion of the public domain west of the Mississippi, for the residence of all the tribes residing east of that river, as are unable to subsist themselves, and for the expenses attending the distribution of the same, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War.
Approved, July 7, 1838.