Provisions to neca and Shaw For cost of sundry articles of provisions furnished to the Seneca, the Seneca, Se- Seneca and Shawnee, and Osage Indians, while in a destitute condition, in eighteen hundred and thirty-four, by the commissioners west, &c., as per statement rendered and on file in the office of the Second Auditor, to reimburse the appropriation for Indian annuities out of which the same was paid, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; nee, and Osage Indians. Visit of delegations of Ioways, &c. Visit of dele gations of Paw- Visit of dele gations of Choctaws, Creeks, and Osages. Buildings and improvements on lands ceded by the Miamies. Treaties with the Chippewas of Saginaw. Treaty with the Chippewas of the Mississip pi. Treaty with the Sioux of the Mississippi. Treaty with the Sacs and Foxes of the Mississippi. Treaty with the Sacs and Foxes of the Missouri. Treaty with the Yancton and Santie Sioux. Treaty with the Winneba goes. Treaty with the Iowas. Treaty with the Oneidas at Green Bay. For expenses of delegations of Ioways, Yancton Sioux, and Sacs and Foxes of Missouri, who visited this and the Northern cities in eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, by invitation, including the usual presents and contingent expenditures, nine thousand dollars; For expenses of delegations of Pawnees, Ottoes and Missourias, and Omahas, who visited this and the Northern cities in eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, by invitation, including the usual presents and contingent expenditures, twelve thousand five hundred dollars; For expenses of delegations of not exceeding three Choctaws, three Creeks, and five Osages, who have obtained permission to visit this city, including the usual presents and contingent expenditures, five thousand dollars; For the value of the buildings and improvements of the Miamies on the lands ceded by them in the treaty of twenty-third October, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, per sixth article, as ratified by the Senate, five thousand six hundred and seven dollars; For carrying into effect the treaties with the Chippewas of Saganaw, of the fourteenth January, and twentieth December, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and twenty-third January, eighteen hundred and thirtyeight, eighty-one thousand dollars; For carrying into effect the treaty with the Chippewas of the Mississippi of the twenty-ninth July, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, two hundred and eight thousand five hundred dollars; For carrying into effect the Treaty with the Sioux of the Mississippi of the twenty-ninth September, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, as ratified by the Senate, two hundred and fifty-eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; For carrying into effect the treaty with the Sacs and Foxes of the Mississippi of the twenty-first October, eighteen hundred and thirtyseven, as ratified by the Senate, one hundred and eighty-four thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; For carrying into effect the treaty with the Sacs and Foxes of the Missouri of the twenty-first October, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, twelve thousand nine hundred and seventy dollars; For carrying into effect the treaty with the Yancton and Santie Sioux of the twenty-first October, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, seven thousand dollars; For carrying into effect the treaty with the Winnebagoes of the first November, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, four hundred and fortyfive thousand five hundred dollars; For carrying into effect the treaty with the lowas of the twenty-third November, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, five thousand dollars; For carrying into effect the treaty with the Oneidas at Green Bay of the third February, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, thirty-seven thousand and forty-seven dollars; Appropriation To the Osages for interest at five per cent. on sixty-nine thousand to the Osages. one hundred and twenty dollars, being the value of the fifty-four sections of land set apart by the treaty of eighteen hundred and twentyfive, 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, three thousand four hundred and fifty-six dollars; 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; For holding a treaty with the Creeks for the purpose of adjusting their claims for property and improvements abandoned or lost in consequence of their emigration West of the Mississippi, two thousand dollars; Appropriation to the Dela wares. Treaty with the Creeks. For payment of the amount of depredations committed by the Osage Depredations and Camanche Indians on the property of the Choctaw Indians, eight by the Osage hundred and twenty-five dollars; For expenses of holding a treaty with the Wyandot Indians of the State of Ohio, one thousand five hundred dollars; 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 eighty-nine dollars and twenty-three cents; 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. 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. 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. 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. 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: To William Marshall for forty-two days' service as Commissioner, three hundred and thirty-six dollars. 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. To defray the expenses of an exploring party of Miamies Indians, the sum of nineteen hundred and ninety dollars. 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. and Camanche gation from the Visit of a dele gation of the Senecas. Resubmitting to those Indians the treaty as amended. Treaty with the Osages. Visit of Sac and Fox Indians to Washington. Negotiations with the Mia mies. W. Marshall for service. H.L.Ellsworth for service. A. Hamilton for service. Exploring party of Miamies. Temporary subsistence to certain Indians west of the Mis sissippi. STATUTE II. July 7, 1838. So much of act Sept. 15, 1789, ch. 14, as requires the Sec. of State to have the laws recorded, repealed. STATUTE II. July 7, 1838. Preamble. Grant of land to H. Perrine. When to be located, &c. Proviso. When a patent shall issue. How and when it shall be forfeited to the U. S. CHAP. CLXXXVII.—An Act to repeal, in part, the act entitled "An act to provide for the safe keeping of the acts, records, and seal of the United States, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the act entitled "An act to provide for the safe keeping of the acts, records, and seal of the United States, and for other purposes," approved fif teenth of September, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, as directs the Secretary of State to cause to be recorded, in his office, the acts and resolutions of Congress, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. APPROVED, July 7, 1838. CHAP. CLXXXVIII.—An Act to encourage the introduction and promote the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a township of land is hereby granted to Doctor Henry Perrine and his associates, in the southern extremity of the peninsula of East Florida, to be located in one body of six miles square, upon any portion of the public lands below twenty-six degrees north latitude. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said tract of land shall be located within two years from this date, by said Henry Perrine, and shall be surveyed under his direction, by the surveyor of Florida, Provided, That it shall not embrace any land having sufficient quantities of naval timber to be reserved to the United States, nor any sites for maritime ports or cities. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That whenever any section of land in said tract, shall be really occupied by a bona fide settler, actually engaged in the propagation or cultivation of valuable tropical plants, and upon proof thereof being made to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, a patent shall issue to the said Henry Perrine and his associates. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That every section of land in the tract aforesaid, which shall not be occupied by an actual settler, positively engaged in the propagation or cultivation of useful tropical plants within eight years from the location of said tract, or when the adjacent territory shall be surveyed and offered for sale, shall be forfeited to the United States. APPROVED, July 7, 1838. HAP. CLXXXIX.—An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That if any person who served in the war of the Revolution, in the manner specified in the act passed the seventh day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, entitled "An act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," have died, leaving a widow, whose marriage took place after the expiration of the last period of his service, and before the first day of January, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, such widow shall be entitled to receive, for and during the term of five years from the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, the annuity or pension which might have been allowed to her husband in virtue of said act, if living at the time it was passed; Provided, That in the event of the marriage of such widow, said annuity or pension shall be discontinued. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That no pledge, mortgage, sale, assignment, or transfer of any right, claim, or interest, in any annuity, half pay, or pension, granted by this act, shall be valid, nor shall the half pay, annuity, or pension, granted by this act, or any former act of Congress, be liable to attachment, levy, or seizure, by any process in law, or equity, but shall enure wholly to the personal benefit of the pensioner or annuitant entitled to the same; and that before a warrant shall be delivered to any person acting for or in behalf of any one entitled to money under this act, such person shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation, to be administered by the proper accounting officer, and put on file, that he has no interest in said money, by any pledge, mortgage, transfer, agreement, understanding, or arrangement, and that he does not know or believe that the same has been so disposed of to any other person. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War shall adopt such regulations and forms of evidence, in relation to applications and payments under this act as the President of the United States may prescribe. APPROVED, July 7, 1838. CHAP. CXC.-An Act making appropriations for certain roads in the Territory of Wisconsin. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums of money be, and the same are hereby appropriated for the construction of roads in the Territory of Wisconsin, to wit: For the construction of a road from Fort Howard at Green Bay, by Milwaukee and Racine, to the Northern boundary line of the State of Illinois, in the direction of Chicago in that State, to be expended in the Territory of Wisconsin, fifteen thousand dollars. For the construction of a road from the town of Milwaukee on Lake Michigan, by way of Madison, the permanent seat of Government of the said Territory, to a point opposite the town of Dubuque on the Mississippi river, ten thousand dollars. For the construction of the necessary bridges and removing obstructions in the mail road from the northern line of Missouri, through the original counties of Des Moines and Dubuque, to some suitable point on the Mississippi river between Prairie du Chien and Dubuque, ten thousand dollars. For the completion of the military road from Fort Crawford, by Winnebago, to Fort Howard at Green Bay, five thousand dollars. The said roads shall be constructed under the direction of the Secretary of War, pursuant to contracts to be made by him: Proviso. Survey for im provement of navigation of Rock river. Survey of Des Moines and lo wa rivers. A railroad from Milwaukee to Dubuque. STATUTE II. July 7, 1838. Owners of steamboats to make a new enrolment and take out a new license. Shall not trans or passengers, without a new license. Provided always, That nothing contained in this act shall be so construed as to imply that the United States are pledged or in any manner bound to make any appropriation in future, to make, or construct, said roads, or any part or portion of them. For the survey, with the view to the improvement of the navigation of Rock river, from the Illinois line, as far up the same as the contemplated point of intersection with the Milwaukee and Rock river canal, and also of the Haven of the said river, next below Lake Kushkenong to Madison, the seat of Government of the Territory of Wisconsin, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars. For the survey of the Des Moines and Iowa rivers, with a view to the improvement of their navigation, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars. For a survey and estimate of the cost of a railroad from Milwaukee to Dubuque, a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars. APPROVED, July 7, 1838. CHAP. CXCI.-An Act to provide for the better security of the lives of passengers on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam. (a) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be the duty of all owners of steamboats, or vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam, on or before the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, to make a new enrolment of the same, under the existing laws of the United States, and take out from the collector or surveyor of the port, as the case may be, where such vessel is enrolled, a new license, under such conditions as are now imposed by law, and as shall be imposed by this act. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall not be lawful for the port goods, &c. owner, master, or captain of any steamboat or vessel propelled in whole or in part by steam, to transport any goods, wares, and merchandise, or passengers, in or upon the bays, lakes, rivers, or other navigable waters of the United States, from and after the said first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight; without having first obtained, from the proper officer, a license under the existing laws, and without having complied with the conditions imposed by this act; and for each and every violation of this section, the owner or owners of said vessel shall forfeit and pay to the United States the sum of five hundred dollars, one-half for the use of the informer; and for which sum or sums the steamboat or vessel so engaged shall be liable, and may be seized and proceeded against summarily, by way of libel, in any district court of the United States having jurisdiction of the offence. Penalty for violation of this section. How recoverable. District judge to appoint persons to inspect the boilers and machinery. Their qualifications and du ties. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the district judge of the United States, within whose district any ports of entry or delivery may be, on the navigable waters, bays, lakes, and rivers of the United States, upon the application of the master or owner of any steamboat or vessel propelled in whole or in part by steam, to appoint, from time to time, one or more persons skilled and competent to make inspections of such boats and vessels, and of the boilers and machinery employed in the same, who shall not be interested in the manufacture of steam engines, steamboat boilers, or other machinery belonging to steam vessels, whose duty it shall be to make such inspection when called upon for that purpose, and to give to the owner or master of such boat or vessel duplicate certificates of such inspection; (a) An act authorizing the appointment of persons to test the usefulness of inventions to improve and render safe the boilers of steam engines against explosions; June 28, 1838, chap. 147. An act to modify the act entitled, An act to provide for the better security of the lives of passengers on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam," approved July 7, 1838; March 3, 1843, chap. 94. |