Indian service Indian service in the district of country leased from the Choc- in country leased taws for the Indians lately residing in Texas. For the expenses from Choctaws for of colonizing, supporting, and furnishing agricultural implements Indians lately in and stock, pay of necessary employees, purchase of clothing, medicine, iron, and steel, establishment and maintenance of schools, and building houses for the Indians lately residing in Texas, in lieu of those abandoned in that State, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, twenty-two thousand eight hundred and twenty-five dollars. Wichitas and For the Wichitas and other affiliated bands. For the expenses other affiliated of colonizing, supporting, and furnishing said bands with agricul- bands. tural implements and stock, pay of necessary employees, purchase of clothing, medicines, iron, and steel, and maintenance of schools, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, thirty-seven thousand eight hundred dollars. Indian service in California.-For the general incidental expenses of the Indian service in California, including_travelling expenses of the superintending agents, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For the removal of Indians, transportation of goods, purchase of cattle for beef and milk, together with clothing and food, teams and farming tools for Indians for the northern district of California, thirty-five thousand dollars. For two blacksmiths for the northern district of California, fifteen hundred dollars. For two physicians for the northern district of California, two thousand dollars. For the purchase of cattle for beef and milk, together with clothing and food, teams and farming tools for Indians for the southern district of of California, fifteen thousand dollars. For the salaries of clerks to superintendents of Indian affairs for the northern and southern districts of California, three thousand dollars. Indian service in California. Indian office. For the compensation of five extra clerks employed in the In- Extra clerks in dian office, under acts of fifth August, eighteen hundred and fifty-1854, ch. 267; four, and third March, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, and under vol. x, p. 576. appropriations made from year to year, seven thousand dollars. For compensation of one clerk in the Indian office, to enable the Secretary of the Interior to carry out the regulations prescribed to give effect to the seventh section of the act of March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, granting bounty lands to Indians, fourteen hundred dollars. For compensation of two extra clerks in the Indian office, employed to carry out the treaty with the Chickasaws in the adjustment of their claims, two thousand eight hundred dollars. 1855, ch. 175; vol. x, p. 643. Clerk for bounty lands to Indians. Extra clerks. of annuities to For insurance, transportation, and necessary expenses of the Delivery, &c., delivery of annuities and provisions to the Indian tribes in Minne- tribes in Minnesosota and Michigan, twenty thousand three hundred and fifty ta and Michigan. dollars and sixty-two cents. Ponca, and Yanc For insurance, transportation, and necessary expenses of the To the Pawnee, delivery of Pawnee, Ponca, and Yancton Sioux annuity goods ton Sioux. and provisions, ten thousand dollars. dians. For expenses of transportation and delivery of annuity goods To Blackfeet Into the Blackfeet Indians for the year, seventeen thousand dollars. To Chippewas of Lake Superior. To Chippewas of the Mississippi. Vaccination. Indian service in Oregon and Washington. Indian service in For insurance, transportation, and necessary expenses of the delivery of annuities and provisions to the Chippewas of Lake Superior, five thousand seven hundred and sixty-two dollars and sixty-three cents. For insurance, transportation, and necessary expenses of the delivery of annuities and provisions to the Chippewas of the Mississippi, three thousand eight hundred and eighty-six dollars and seventy-five cents. For expenses attending the vaccination of Indians, two thousand five hundred dollars. For the general incidental expenses of the Indian service in Oregon and Washington Territory, including insurance and transportation of annuity goods and presents, (where no special provision therefor is made by treaties,) and office [and] travelling expenses of the superintendent and sub-agents, thirty-five thousand dollars. For defraying the expenses of the removal and subsistence of Indians in Oregon and Washington Territory, (not parties to any treaty,) and for pay of necessary employees, fifty thousand dollars. Indian service in Nevada Territory. For the general incidental Nevada Territory. expenses of the Indian service in Nevada Territory, presents of goods, agricultural implements, and other useful articles, and to assist them to locate in permanent abodes, and sustain themselves by the pursuits of civilized life, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, twenty-five thousand dollars. Indian service in Utah Territory. Indian service in Colorado Territo ry. Omahas. Tah-sah. S. C. Webber and J. J. Miller. To replace goods lost in the burn ing of the steamer "Chippewa." Indian service in Utah Territory.-For the general incidental expenses of the Indian service in Utah Territory, presents of goods, agricultural implements, and other useful articles, and to assist them to locate in permanent abodes and sustain themselves by the pursuits of civilized life, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, twenty-five thousand dollars. For three interpreters for Indian service in Utah Territory, one thousand five hundred dollars. Indian service in Colorado Territory.-For the general incidental expenses of the Indian service in Colorado Territory, presents of goods, agricultural implements, and other useful articles, and to assist them to locate in permanent abodes and sustain themselves by the pursuits of civilized life, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, twenty-five thousand dollars. Omahas. For assistant engineer for mill, six hundred dollars. For payment to Tah-sah, or White Cow, an Omaha chief, for horses killed by white settlers, six hundred and thirty dollars. For payment of admitted claims of S. C. Webber and J. J. Miller for labor in erection of mill on the Omaha reservation, six hundred and fifty-eight dollars and fifty cents. For amount required to reimburse the Blackfeet and other Indians in dry goods, clothing, hardware, and guns, which were lost in shipment in the burning of the steamer Chippewa, fourteen thousand four hundred and four dollars and seventy-seven cents. Arapahoes and Arapahoes and Cheyenne Indians of the Upper Arkansas river.— Cheyenne Indians of the Upper Ar- For third of fifteen instalments of annuity of thirty thousand dollars to be expended for their benefit, that is to say: fifteen thousand dollars per annum for each tribe, commencing with the kansas river. year in which they shall remove to and settle upon their reservations, thirty thousand dollars. For first of five instalments to provide the same Indians with a mill suitable for sawing timber and grinding grain, one or more mechanics' shops, with the necessary tools for the same, and dwelling-houses for an interpreter, miller, engineer for the mill, (if one be necessary,) farmers, and the mechanics that may be employed for their benefit, five thousand dollars. For transportation and necessary expenses of delivering of annuities, goods, and provisions, five thousand dollars. For survey and allotment of lands for the Arapahoe and Cheyenne Indians, ten thousand dollars. Survey and allotment of lands. For the expenses of colonizing, supporting, and furnishing agricultural implements, teams, seeds, pay of necessary employees, purchase of medicines, iron and steel for the establishment of blacksmith and tin shops for those Indians with whom treaties have been made, but not ratified, in Oregon, ten thousand dollars. Ottawa Indians of Blanchard's Fork and Roche de Bauf- of For payment of annuity in money, eighteen thousand dollars. Ottawa Indians Blanchard's Fork and Roche de Bœuf. Post, Treaties, For the first of four instalments in money, per fourth article of treaty June twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, eight p. 316. thousand five hundred dollars. For interest on thirty-four thousand dollars at five per centum per annum, per fourth article treaty June twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, one thousand seven hundred dollars. For payment for ponies, cattle, and timber stolen from the Ottawas, reported and approved by Secretary of the Interior, thir'teen thousand and five dollars and ninety-five cents. For payment of damages sustained in compliance with the provisionary clause of the tenth article of treaty of June twenty-four, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, three thousand five hundred dollars. For the salaries of two agents on the Up[p]er Missouri and the country adjacent thereto, to be located under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, three thousand dollars. Agents in Upper Missouri. Losses to Yaneton Sioux by the the steamer J. G. To reimburse the loss sustained by the Yancton Sioux Indians on the twenty-ninth of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, sinking of by the sinking of the steamer "J. G. Morrow," four thousand three Morrow." hundred and twenty dollars and thirty-eight cents. For clothing, food, and other necessary expenses of the Indian service, in Utah Territory, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, twenty thousand dollars. For incidental expenses of the Indian department growing out of the extraordinary Indian troubles during the present fiscal year in the northwestern States and Territories, twenty thousand dollars. For the salary of an agent for the Ottawas, Chippewas of Swan creek and Black river, and Christian Indians in the State of Kansas, fifteen hundred dollars: Provided, That said agency shall continue for one year only. For carrying into effect the sixth section of the "Act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations," approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, to satisfy the claims of the half-breeds to the proceeds of the lands in the Nemaha reserve, excluded from such reservations by the Mc Indian service in Utah. Incidentals of Indian depart ment. Agent for Otta was. Proviso. Claims of halfbreeds to proceeds Nemaha reserve. of lands in the 1859, ch. 66, §6; vol. xi, p. 401. Intercourse with Indian tribes with whom are no treaties. Coy survey of eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, nineteen thousand six hundred and twenty-one dollars and twenty-seven cents. For intercourse with the various Indian tribes between whom and the United States there exist no treaty stipulations, including purchase and transportation of provisions and presents, and to meet any other expenses requisite to effect treaties with such tribes, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, and to enable the Secretary of the Interior, under the direction of the President of the United States, to enter into Negotiations for negotiations with Indian tribes for the exchange of lands, to proexchange of lands, vide for their removal, to arrange questions of boundaries between the respective tribes, and for measures generally for preserving peace with them, fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That the said Secretary of the Interior shall report to Congress, at the commencement of its next session, a statement indicating the disposition made of the money hereby appropriated: And provided, furAppointment of ther, That hereafter all special agents and commissioners not appointed by the President, shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior. &c. Proviso.. special agents and commissioners. Relief of the Weas, Peorias, &c. Sale of bonds. Certain bonds to be sold. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Interior be authorized to dispose of, at the best price they will bring in the market, twenty-five thousand dollars of the bonds of the State of Pennsylvania, purchased with the proceeds of the sales of the lands of the united bands of the Weas, Peorias, Kaskaskias, and Piankeshaw Indians of Kansas, now in the custody of the United States belonging to said Indians, or so many thereof as he may deem necessary for the purchase of such clothing, food, seed, grain, agricultural implements or domestic animals, as may be necessary for the immediate relief of said Indians, and to enable them to plant a crop, and appropriate the proceeds of the sales of said bonds or so much thereof as he may deem necessary Notice of sale for said purpose: Provided, That said sale shall be made after three weeks' public notice at the Merchants' Exchange in the city of Philadelphia, to the highest bidder, and at not less than the market price of said bonds in the cities of New York and Philadelphia: And provided further, That no special agent or agents shall be employed, nor shall any such sale be made until after the assent and approval of said Indians for the sale of their bonds shall first be obtained through their regular authorized representatives. and minimum price. Sale not to be made until after assent and appro val of Indians. Amounts heretofore appropria stipulations with expended. SEC. 3 And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the ted under treaty Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to expend such part of tribes now in hos- the amount heretofore appropriated to carry into effect any treaty tility, how to be stipulation with any tribe or tribes of Indians, all, or any portion of whom shall be in a state of actual hostility to the government of the United States, including the Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Seminoles, Wichitas, and other affiliated tribes, as may be found necessary to enable such individual members of said tribes as have been driven from their homes, and reduced to want on account of their friendship to the United States, to subsist until they can be removed to their homes, and to assist them in Account to be such removal: Provided, That an account shall be kept of the sums so paid for the benefit of the said members of said tribes, which account shall be rendered to Congress at the commencePurchases, how ment of the next session thereof. And all purchases of articles for the purposes above set forth shall be made of the lowest re kept. made. sponsible bidder, after sufficient public notice by advertisement in appropriate newspapers: Provided, also, That the said Secretary shall not be required to accept any bid which is in his judgment unreasonable in his character. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and is hereby, authorized to enter into treaties with the several tribes of Indians, respectively, now residing in the State of Kansas, providing for the extinction of their titles to lands held in common within said State, and for the removal of such Indians of said tribes as hold their lands in common to suitable localities, elsewhere within the territorial limits of the United States, and outside the limits of any State. President may make treaty with Indians in Kansas to extinguish their titles to land. And with loyal tribes in the In SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and is hereby, authorized to enter into negotia- dian country. tions, by treaty or otherwise, with such loyal tribes, or the loyal portions of such tribes, now residing in the country south of Kansas and west of Arkansas, commonly known as the " Indian Country," as may be necessary, in order to secure for the Indians of Kansas who shall be removed to said Indian country under the provisions of the preceding section of this act, the title to the lands to which they may be so removed. Unexpended balances for Inservice in ington. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to direct so much of the unexpended dian balances of appropriation for the Indian service in Oregon and Oregon and WashWashington as may be necessary to meet the outstanding liabilities of the Indian Department in said State and Territory during the fiscal years ending eighteen hundred and sixty, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and eighteen hundred and sixty-two, a sum not exceeding sixty-eight thousand dollars: Provided, however, That no money shall be paid except in discharge of liabilities incurred in carrying into effect the objects provided for by law for the Indian service. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the salaries of the Indian agents in Nevada and Utah shall hereafter be at the rate of fifteen hundred dollars per annum. Approved March 3, 1863. Salaries of agents in Utah and Ne vada. CHAPTER C. AN ACT to provide circuit courts for the districts of California and Oregon, and for other purposes. March 3, 1863. to consist of a Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Supreme Court Supreme Court of the United States shall hereafter consist of a chief justice and chief justice and nine associate justices, any six of whom shall nine associates. constitute a quorum; and for this purpose there shall be ap- Quorum. pointed one additional associate justice of said court, with the like One additional powers, and to take the same oaths, perform the same duties, and justice. be entitled to the same salary, as the other associate justices. California and The districts of California and Oregon shall constitute the tenth Oregon to form circuit, and the other circuits shall remain as now constituted by 10th circuit. law. |