United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/18th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 151
Chap. CLI.—An Act making appropriations to carry into effect certain Indian treaties.
Specific appropriations for carrying into effect certain Indian treaties.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, that is to say:
For carrying into effect so much of the fourth article of the treaty of the eighth of January, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, between the United States and the Creek nation, as relates to the compensation due to the citizens of Georgia, by the Creek nation, the appropriation heretofore made for that object being exhausted, the sum of twenty-three thousand dollars.
For the payment of the annuity to the Creek nation, as provided for by the same article of said treaty, the sum of sixteen thousand dollars annually, for five years, and the sum of ten thousand dollars, annually, for six years thereafter.
For implements of husbandry and stock of cattle and hogs, agreeably to the stipulation contained in the third article of the treaty with the Florida Indians, of the eighteenth September, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, the sum of six thousand dollars.
For the payment of the annuity to the Florida Indians, as provided for by the third article of said treaty, the sum of five thousand dollars, annually, for twenty years.
For the expense of rations to be furnished to said Indians, agreeably to the fifth article of said treaty, the sum of sixty-five thousand seven hundred dollars.
For compensation for improvements that may be abandoned by said Indians, as provided for by the fifth article of said treaty, the sum of four thousand five hundred dollars.
For transportation of the different tribes to the land assigned them by the said treaty, as provided for by the fifth article of the same, the sum of two thousand dollars.
For the establishment of a school, and the support of a gunsmith for said Indians, as provided for by the sixth article of said treaty, the sum of two thousand dollars, annually, for twenty years.
For running the line of the land assigned to said Indians, as provided for [in] the seventh article of said treaty, the sum of five thousand dollars.
To be paid out of the treasury.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said sums be, and they are hereby, directed to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, May 26, 1824.