United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 275

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4010152United States Statutes at Large, Volume 5 — Public Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress, Second Session, Chapter 275United States Congress


Aug. 31, 1842.

Chap. CCLXXV.An Act making appropriations to carry into effect a treaty with the Wyandott Indians, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Appropriation to carry treaty into effect. That there be, and hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for carrying into effect the treaty with the Wyandott Indians, dated March seventeen, eighteen hundred and forty-two, and ratified by the Senate on the seventeenth of August, eighteen hundred and forty-two, with amendments, the sum of fifty-five thousand six hundred and sixty dollars:Proviso.
Interest on State stocks, &c. to be made good.
Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended until the assent of said tribe is duly and formally given to said amendments. To make good the interest on investments and State stocks, and bonds for Indian tribes not yet paid by the States, to be reimbursed out of the interest when collected, fifteen thousand six hundred dollars and ninety-two cents.

Additional appropriation for expenses of the judiciary.For defraying expenses of the Supreme, Circuit and District Courts of the United States, including the District of Columbia, also for jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, penalties, and forfeitures incurred in eighteen hundred and forty-two and preceding years, and likewise for defraying the expenses of suits in which the United States are concerned, and of prosecutions for offences committed against the United States, and for the safe-keeping of prisoners, in addition to former appropriations, one hundred thousand dollars.

Approved, August 31, 1842.