Laws of the United States.

AN ACT to provide for the payment of claims, for property lost, captured, or destroyed, by the enemy, while in the military service of the United States, during the late war with the Indians on the frontiers of Illinois and Michigan Territory.

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SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That any sum of money, to any amount not exceeding two hundred dollars, so allowed by said Third Auditor, shall be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, June 30, 1834.

AN ACT authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Potomac, and repealing all acts already passed in relation thereto.

Be it enacted, &c., That any officer, field or staff, volunteer, ranger, cavalry, or other persons engaged in the service of the United States in the late campaigns against the Indians, on the frontiers of Illinois and Michigan Territory, who have sustained damage without any fault or negligence on their part, respectively, by the loss of a horse, or necessary equipage, in battle, or by the loss viding for the purchase by the United States of the rights Be it enacted, &c., That the act entitled "An act proof a horse that was wounded in battle, and afterwards of the Washington Bridge Company, in the District of died of said wound while in the service, or who has sus- Columbia, and for the erection of a public bridge on the tained damage by the reason of the loss of any horse site thereof," which passed the fourteenth day of July, which, in consequence of the United States failing to sup- eighteen hundred and thirty-two, and the act entitled ply sufficient forage, while engaged in said service, died, or was unavoidably abandoned and lost, or who has sus-ed the second day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty"An act in relation to the Potomac bridge," which pass'tained damage by reason of the loss of any horse, because three, be, and the same are hereby, repealed, except so the rider was dismounted and seperated from his horse, much of the former as authorized the purchase of the and ordered to do military duty on foot at a station de- rights of the Washington Bridge Company. tached from his horse, or for the loss of necessary equipage, in consequence of the loss of his horse as aforesaid, of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and reSEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary shall be allowed and paid the value thereof: Provided, quired to contract for the reconstruction on the site of the That if any payment shall have been made to any officer, present bridge across the river Potomac, of a bridge on soldier, or other person, as aforesaid, for the use and risk, the plan of that originally constructed there by the Washor for forage after the death or abandonment of said ington Bridge Company: Provided, That the draw at the horse, said amount shall be deducted from the value there- southern channel of the river be not less than sixty-six of, unless said officer or soldier or other person shall have feet, and at the northern channel than thirty-five feet; that satisfied the paymaster at the time he made the payment, a space or spaces not exceeding in all, one thousand six or shall hereafter show by proof, that he was remounted, hundred and sixty feet of the shoal or shoals, over which in which case the deduction shall only extend to the time such officer, soldier, or other person, served on foot. And provided, also, That if any payment shall have been made to any officer or soldier on account of clothing, such pay; ment shall be deducted from the value of his horse and accoutrements. And provided, further, That no claim shall be allowed under the provisions of this section until the best evidence which the nature of the case will admit of shall be produced before the accounting officer, showing the number of horses lost in manner aforesaid, the time when lost, and the name of the owner.

the present bridge passes, may be filled up by a solid embankment, in part, if convenient, of earth obtained by dredging the river channel: And provided, also, That the entire cost of the said embankment, and such reconstruc. tion shall not, on the whole, exceed one hundred and thirty thousand dollars; which sum is hereby appropri ated thereto, out of any money in the Treasury not hitherto appropriated.

Orange H. Dibble, for labor, materials, or any other exSEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the claims of SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That any person who, tary of the Treasury, as nearly as the same can be done, penses upon the said bridge, be ascertained by the Secre in the Indian wars aforesaid, has acted in the military and be laid before Congres at its next session, for its exservice of the United States as a volunteer or draughted amination. militiaman, and who has furnished himself with arms directed to pay him in the mean time such sum as will And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby and military accoutrements, and has sustained damage by reimburse to him the actual loss incurred by him in mathe capture or destruction of the same, without any fault king preparation for the construction of the said bridge: or negligence on his part, or who has lost the same by Provided, The amount paid shall not exceed twenty thou reason of his being wounded in the service, shall be allow-sand dollars; said payment to be made out of any money ed and paid the value thereof. in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, June 30, 1834.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That in all instances where any minor has been engaged in the military service as aforesaid, during the Indian wars as aforesaid, and was provided with a horse or equipments, or with military accoutrements, by his parents or guardian, and has since deceased, without paying for said property, and the same was lost, captured, destroyed, or abandoned, in the manner before mentioned, said parent or guardian shall be allowed pay therefor on making satisfactory proof as in other cases, and the further proof that he is entitled thereto by having furnished the same.

AN ACT to authorize the sale of lots in the town of St.
Mark's, in Florida.

Be it enacted, &c., That the President of the United States
be, and he is hereby, authorized to direct the register
and receiver of the Tallahassee land district to make sale
at public auction of one-fourth of the lots in the town of
St. Mark's, in the Territory of Florida, according to the
plan of the surveyor general of said Territory, as soon as
practicable after the passage of this act, upon giving two
months' public notice of the said sale.
Approved, June 30, 1834.

acts respecting copyrights.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Third Auditor of the Treasury shall adjudicate and decide such claims as may be presented against the United States, under the provisions of this act: Provided, That every claim which exceeds the sum of two hundred dollars, AN ACT supplementary to the act to amend the several instead of deciding the same, the said Third Auditor shall report the whole of the proof to Congress at its next session, after taking and closing such proof; and he shall have power, by constituting a commission or otherwise, to take testimony in any case where he shall think the interests of the United States require further testimony to be taken.

Be it enacted, &c., That all deeds or instruments in writing for the transfer or assignment of copyrights, being proved or acknowledged in such manner as deeds for the conveyance of land are required by law to be proved or acknowledged in the same State or district, shall and

may be recorded in the office where the original copy right is deposited and recorded; and every such deed or instrument that shall in any time hereafter be made and executed, and which shall not be proved or acknowledged and recorded as aforesaid, within sixty days after its execution, shall be judged fraudulent and void against any subsequent purchaser or mortgagee for valuable consideration without notice.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the clerk of the district court shall be entitled to such fees for performing the services herein authorized and required, as he is entitled to for performing like services under existing laws of the United States.

Approved, June 30, 1834.

AN ACT to provide for rebuilding the frigate Congress. Be it enacted, &c., That the sum of one hundred eighty. one thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to rebuild the frigate Congress; and no part of said sum shall be carried to the surplus fund, notwithstanding any general provision in any other act to the contrary.

Approved, June 30, 1834.

have transgressed any of the laws or regulations provided for the government of trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, or that it would be improper to permit him to remain in the Indian country. And no trade with the said tribes shall be carried on within their boundary, except at certain suitable and convenient places, to be designated from time to time by the superintendents, agents, and sub-agents, and to be inserted in the license. And it shall be the duty of the persons granting or revoking such licenses, forthwith to report the same to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, for his approval or disapproval.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That any superintendent, or agent, may refuse an application for a license to trade, if he is satisfied that the applicant is a person of bad character, or that it would be improper to permit him to reside in the Indian country, or if a license previously granted to such applicant has been revoked, or a forfeiture of his bond decreed. But an appeal may be had from the agent or the superintendent to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs; and the President of the United States shall be authorized, whenever in his opinion the public interest may require the same, to prohibit the in. troduction of goods, or of any particular article, into the country belonging to any Indian tribe, and to direct all licenses to trade with such tribe to be revoked, and all applications therefor to be rejected; and no trader to any other tribe shall, so long as such prohibition may continue, trade with any Indians of or for the tribe against which such prohibition is issued.

AN ACT authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to make experiments for the safety of the steam engine. Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to examine and test the steam engine devised by Benjamin Phillips, of Philadelphia, and to [employ] said Phillips, and such other than an Indian who shall attempt to reside in the InSEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That any person other persons as he may deem proper, to make the ex-dian country as a trader, or to introduce goods, or to periment.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That a discretionary power be vested in the Secretary of the Navy to examine and test such other improvements, in the same line, as may hereafter be presented, and for that purpose to employ such person or persons as he may deem proper; and that he report to Congress, as soon as may be, the result of any experiment made in pursuance of this act.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That, for the purpose of carrying this act into execution, the sum of five thou sand dollars, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, be, and is hereby, appropriated, and placed at the disposal of the Secretary of the Navy. Approved, June 30, 1834.

chandise offered for sale to the Indians, or found in his trade therein without such license, shall forfeit all merpossession, and shall moreover forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars.

trade with the Indians shall be granted to any persons SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That no license to except citizens of the United States: Provided, That the President shall be authorized to allow the employment of foreign boatmen and interpreters, under such regulations as he may prescribe.

shall go into the Indian country without a passport from SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That if a foreigner the War Department, the superintendent, agent, or subagent, of Indian affairs, or from the officer of the United tiers, or shall remain intentionally therein after the expiStates commanding the nearest military post on the fronration of such passport, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of one thousand dollars; and such passport shall express the object of such person, the time he is allowed to remain, and the route he is to travel.

AN ACT to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers. Be it enacted, &c., That all that part of the United States west of the Mississippi, and not within the States of Missouri and Louisiana, or the Territory of Arkansas, and, also, that part of the United States east of the Mississippi river, and not within any State to which the Indian title has not been extinguished, for the purposes of this act, be taken and deemed to be the Indian country. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That no person shall be permitted to trade with any of the Indians (in the Indian country) without a license therefor from a superintendent of Indian affairs, or Indian agent, or sub-agent; which license shall be issued for a term not exceeding two years for the tribes east of the Mississippi, and not SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That if any person, exceeding three years for the tribes west of that river. other than an Indian, shall, within the limits of any tribe And the person applying for such license shall give bond with whom the United States shall have existing treaties, in a penal sum not exceeding five thousand dollars, with hunt, or trap, or take and destroy, any peltries or game, one or more sureties, to be approved by the person issu- except for subsistence in the Indian country, such person ing the same, conditioned that such person will faithfully shall forfeit the sum of five hundred dollars, and forfeit observe all the laws and regulations made for the govern- all the traps, guns, and ammunition, in his possession, ment of trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and used or procured to be used for that purpose, and pelin no respect violate the same. And the superintendent tries so taken. of the district shall have power to revoke and cancel the same, whenever the person licensed shall, in his opinion,

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That if any person, other than an Indian, shall, within the Indian country, purchase or receive of any Indian, in the way of barter, trade, or pledge, a gun, trap, or other article commonly used in hunting, any instrument of husbandry or cooking utensils of the kind commonly obtained by the Indians in their intercourse with the white people, or any other article of clothing, except skins or furs, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of fifty dollars.

SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall drive, or otherwise convey any stock of horses,

mules, or cattle, to range and feed on any land belonging conviction is had for such crime, offence, or misdemeanor, to any Indian or Indian tribe, without the consent of such the person so convicted shall be sentenced to pay to such tribe, such person shall forfeit the sum of one dollar for friendly Indian to whom the property may belong, or each animal of such stock. whose person may be injured, a sum equal to twice the

SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That the Superin- just value of the property so taken, injured, or destroytendent of Indian Affairs, and Indian agents, and sub-ed. And if such offender shall be unable to pay a sum agents, shall have authority to remove from the Indian at least equal to the just value or amount, whatever such country all persons found therein contrary to law; and the payment shall fall short of the same, shall be paid out of President of the United States is authorized to direct the the Treasury of the United States: Provided, That no military force to be employed in such removal. such Indian shall be entitled to any payment out of the Treasury of the United States, for any such property, if he, or any of the nation to which he belongs, shall have sought private revenge, or attempted to obtain satisfaction by any force or violence: And provided, also, That if such offender cannot be apprehended and brought to trial, the amount of such property shall be paid out of the Treasury, as aforesaid.

SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall make a settlement on any lands belonging, secured, or granted by treaty with the United States, to any Indian tribe, or shall survey or shall attempt to survey such lands, or designate any of the boundaries by marking trees, or otherwise, such offender shall forfeit and pay the sum of one thousand dollars. And it shall, moreover, be lawful for the President of the United States to take such measures, and to employ such military force, as he may judge necessary to remove from the lands as aforesaid any such persons as aforesaid.

SEC. 17. And be it further enacted, That if any Indian or Indians, belonging to any tribe in amity with the United States, shall, within the Indian country, take or destroy the property of any person lawfully within such country, SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That no purchase, or shall pass from the Indian country into any State or grant, lease, or other conveyance of lands, or of any title Territory inhabited by citizens of the United States, and or claim thereto, from any Indian nation or tribe of In- there take, steal, or destroy, any horses, or other prodians, shall be of any validity in law or equity, unless the perty, belonging to any citizen or inhabitant of the United same be made by treaty or convention entered into pur- States, such citizen or inhabitant, his representative, atsuant to the constitution. And if any person, not employ- torney, or agent, may make application to the proper ed under the authority of the United States, shall attempt superintendent, agent, or sub-agent, who, upon being to negotiate such treaty or convention, directly or indi- furnished with the necessary documents and proofs, shall, rectly, to treat with any such nation or tribe of Indians, under the direction of the President, make application to for the title or purchase of any lands by them held or the nation or tribe to which said Indian or Indians shall claimed, such person shall forfeit and pay one thousand belong, for satisfaction; and if such nation or tribe shall dollars: Provided, nevertheless, That it shall be lawful for neglect or refuse to make satisfaction, in a reasonable the agent or agents of any State who may be present at time, not exceeding twelve months, it shall be the duty any treaty held with Indians under the authority of the of such superintendent, agent, or sub-agent, to make United States, in the presence and with the approbation return of his doings to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, of the commissioner or commissioners of the United that such further steps may be taken as shall be proper, States appointed to hold the same, to propose to, and ad- in the opinion of the President, to obtain satisfaction for just with, the Indians, the compensation to be made for the injury; and in the mean time, in respect to the protheir claim to lands within such State which shall be ex-perty so taken, stolen, or destroyed, and the United tinguished by treaty. States guaranty, to the party so injured, an eventual inSEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That if any citizen demnification: Provided, That if such injured party, his or other person residing within the United States or the representative, attorney, or agent, shall, in any way, territory thereof, shall send any talk, speech, message, violate any of the provisions of this act, by seeking or or letter, to any Indian nation, tribe, chief, or individual, attempting to obtain private satisfaction or revenge, he with an intent to produce a contravention or infraction of shall forfeit all claim upon the United States for such any treaty or other law of the United States, or to disturb indemnification: And provided, also, That unless such the peace and tranquillity of the United States, he shall claim shall be presented within three years after the comforfeit and pay the sum of two thousand dollars. mission of the injury, the same shall be barred. And if SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That if any citizen the nation or tribe to which such Indian may belong, or other person shall carry or deliver any such talk, mes-receive an annuity from the United States, such claim sage, speech, or letter, to or from any Indian nation, shall, at the next payment of the annuity, be deducted tribe, chief, or individual, from or to any person or per- therefrom, and paid to the party injured; and, if no sons whatsoever, residing within the United States, or annuity is payable to such nation or tribe, then the amount from or to any subject, citizen, or agent of any foreign of the claim shall be paid from the Treasury of the United Power or State, knowing the contents thereof, he shall States: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall forfeit and pay the sum of one thousand dollars. prevent the legal apprehension and punishment of any Indians having so offended.

SEC. 15. And be it further enacted, That if any citizen or other person, residing or living among the Indians, or SEC. 18. And be it further enacted, That the superinelsewhere within the territory of the United States, shall tendents, agents, and sub-agents, within their respective carry on a correspondence, by letter or otherwise, with districts, be, and are hereby, authorized and empowered any foreign nation or Power, with an intent to induce to take depositions of witnesses touching any depredations such foreign nation or Power to excite any Indian nation, within the purview of the two preceding sections of this tribe, chief, or individual, to war against the United act, and to administer an oath to the deponents. States, or to the violation of any existing treaty; or in SEC. 19. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the case any citizen or other person shall alienate, or attempt to alienate, the confidence of any Indian or Indians from the Government of the United States, he shall forfeit the sum of one thousand dollars.

SEC. 16. And be it further enacted, That where, in the commission, by a white person, of any crime, offence, or misdemeanor, within the Indian country, the property of any friendly Indian is taken, injured, or destroyed, and a VOL. X.-T t

duty of the superintendents, agents, and sub-agents, to endeavor to procure the arrest and trial of all Indians accused of committing any crime, offence, or misdemeanor, and all other persons who may have committed crimes or offences within any State or Territory, and have fled into the Indian country, either by demanding the same of the chiefs of the proper tribe, or by such other means as the President may authorize; and the

President may direct the military force of the United cumstances will possibly permit; and every officer or solStates to be employed in the apprehension of such dier who shall be guilty of maltreating any such person Indians, and also in preventing or terminating hostilities while in custody, shall suffer such punishment as a courtbetween any of the Indian tribes. martial shall direct.

SEC. 20. And be it further enacted, That if any person SEC. 24. And be it further enacted, That, for the sole shall sell, exchange, or give, barter, or dispose of, any purpose of carrying this act into effect, all that part of the spirituous liquor or wine to an Indian, (in the Indian Indian country west of the Mississippi river, that is boundcountry,) such person shall forfeit and pay the sum of five ed north by the north line of lands assigned to the Osage hundred dollars; and if any person shall introduce, or tribe of Indians, produced east to the State of Missouri, attempt to introduce, any spirituous liquor or wine into west, by the Mexican possessions; south, by Red river; the Indian country, except such supplies as shall be and east, by the west line of the Territory of Arkansas necessary for the officers of the United States and troops and the State of Missouri, shall be, and hereby is, annexed of the service, under the direction of the War Depart- to the Territory of Arkansas; and that, for the purpose ment, such person shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceed- aforesaid, the residue of the Indian country west of the ing three hundred dollars; and if any superintendent of said Mississippi river shall be, and hereby is, annexed to Indian affairs, Indian agent, or sub-agent, or commanding the judicial district of Missouri; and, for the purpose aforeofficer of a military post, has reason to suspect, or is in- said, the several portions of Indian country east of the formed, that any white person or Indian is about to said Mississippi river, shall be, and are hereby, severally introduce, or has introduced, any spirituous liquor or annexed to the Territory in which they are situate. wine into the Indian country, in violation of the provisions SEC. 25. And be it further enacted, That so much of the of this section, it shall be lawful for such superintendent, laws of the United States as provides for the punishment Indian agent, or sub-agent, or military officer, agreeably of crimes committed within any place within the sole and to such regulations as may be established by the Presi- exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, shall be in force dent of the United States, to cause the boats, stores, in the Indian country: Provided, The same shall not expackages, and places of deposite of such person to be tend to crimes committed by one Indian against the person searched, and if any such spirituous liquor or wine is or property of another Indian. found, the goods, boats, packages, and peltries of such persons shall be seized and delivered to the proper officer, and shall be proceeded against by libel in the proper court, and forfeited, one-half to the use of the informer, and the other half to the use of the United States; and if such person is a trader, his license shall be revoked and his bond put in suit. And it shall moreover be lawful for any person in the service of the United States, or for any Indian, to take and destroy any ardent spirits or wine found in the Indian country, excepting military supplies as mentioned in this section.

SEC. 26. And be it further enacted, That if any person who shall be charged with a violation of any of the provisions or regulations of this act, shall be found within any of the United States, or either of the Territories, such offenders may be there apprehended, and transported to the Territory or judicial district having jurisdiction of the same.

SEC. 27. And be it further enacted, That all penalties which shall accrue under this act, shall be sued for and recovered in action of debt, in the name of the United States, before any court having jurisdiction of the same, SEC. 21. And be it further enacted, That if any person (in any State or Territory in which the defendant shall be whatever shall, within the limits of the Indian country, arrested or found,) the one-half to the use of the informer, set up or continue any distillery for manufacturing ardent and the other half to the use of the United States, except spirits, he shail forfeit and pay a penalty of one thousand when the prosecution shall be first instituted on behalf of dollars; and it shall be the duty of the Superintendent of the United States, in which case the whole shall be to their Indian Affairs, Indian agent, or sub-agent, within the limits use. of whose agency the same shall be set up or continued, SEC. 28. And be it further enacted, That when goods forthwith to destroy and break up the same; and it shall or other property shall be seized for any violation of this be lawful to employ the military force of the United act, it shall be lawful for the person prosecuting on behalf States in executing that duty. of the United States to proceed against such goods, or SEC. 22. And be it further enacted, That in all trials other property, in the manner directed to be observed in about the right of property, in which an Indian may be a the case of goods, wares, or merchandise brought into party on one side, and a white person on the other, the the United States in violation of the revenue laws. burden of proof shall rest upon the white person, when- SEC. 29. And be it further enacted, That the following ever the Indian shall make out a presumption of title in acts and parts of acts shall be, and the same are hereby, himself from the fact of previous possession or ownership. repealed, namely: An act to make provision relative to SEC. 23. And be it further enacted, That it shall be law-rations for Indians, and to their visits to the seat of Govful for the military force of the United States to be em- ernment, approved May thirteen, eighteen hundred; an ployed in such manner, and under such regulations as the act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian President may direct, in the apprehension of every per- tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers, approved son who shall or may be found in the Indian country, in March thirty, eighteen hundred and two; an act suppleviolation of any of the provisions of this act, and him im- mentary to the act passed thirtieth March, eighteen hunmediately to convey from said Indian country, in the near-dred and two, to regulate trade and intercourse with the est convenient and safe route, to the civil authority of the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers, apTerritory or judicial district in which said person shall be proved April twenty-nine, eighteen hundred and sixteen, found, to be proceeded against in due course of law; and, an act for the punishment of crimes and offences commit. also, in the examination and seizure of stores, packages, ted within the Indian boundaries, approved March three, and boats, authorized by the twentieth section of this act, eighteen hundred and seventeen; the first and second and in preventing the introduction of persons and prop-sections of the act directing the manner of appointing Inerty into the Indian country contrary to law; which per- dian agents, and continuing the "Act establishing tradingsons and property shall be proceeded against according to houses with the Indian tribes," approved April sixteen, law: Provided, That no person apprehended by military eighteen hundred and eighteen; an act fixing the compen. force, as aforesaid, shall be detained longer than five days sation of Indian agents and factors, approved April twenty, after the arrest, and before removal. And all officers and eighteen hundred and eighteen; an act supplementary to soldiers who may have any such person or persons in cus- the act entitled "An act to provide for the prompt settody shall treat them with all the humanity which the cir-tlement of public accounts," approved February twenty.

four, eighteen hundred and nineteen; the eighth section cies, exercise a general supervision and control over the of the act making appropriations to carry into effect trea- official conduct and accounts of all officers and persons ties concluded with several Indian tribes therein men- employed by the Government in the Indian department, tioned, approved March three, eighteen hundred and under such regulations as shall be established by the Presinineteen; the second section of the act to continue in dent of the United States; and may suspend such officers force for a further time the act entitled "An act for es- and persons from their office or employments for reasons tablishing trading-houses with the Indian tribes, and for forthwith to be communicated to the Secretary of War. other purposes," approved March three, eighteen hun- SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the following dred and nineteen; an act to amend an act entitled "An Indian agents shall be appointed by the President of the act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian United States, by and with the advice and consent of the tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers," approved Senate, who shall hold their offices for the term of four thirtieth of March, eighteen hundred and two, approved years, and who shall give bond, with two or more securiMay six, eighteen hundred and twenty-two; an act provi- ties, in the penal sum of two thousand dollars, for the ding for the appointment of an agent for the Osage Indians faithful execution of the same, and shall receive the anwest of the State of Missouri and Territory of Arkansas, nual compensation of fifteen hundred dollars. and for other purposes, approved May eighteen, eighteen Two agents for the Western Territory. hundred and twenty-four; the third, fourth, and fifth sec- An agent for the Chickasaws. tions of "An act to enable the President to hold treaties with certain Indian tribes, and for. other purposes," approved May twenty-five, eighteen hundred and twentyfour; the second section of the "Act to aid certain Indians of the Creek nation in their removal to the west of the Mississippi, approved May twenty, eighteen hundred and twenty-six; and act to authorize the appointment of a sub-agent to the Winnebago Indians on Rock river, ap. proved February twenty-five, eighteen hundred and thirtyone: Provided, however, That such repeal shall not effect [affect] any rights acquired, or punishments, penalties, or forfeitures incurred under either of the acts or parts of acts, nor impair or affect the intercourse act of eighteen hundred and two, so far as the same relates to or concerns Indian tribes residing east of the Mississippi: And provided, also, That such repeal shall not be construed to revive any acts or parts of acts repealed by either of the acts or sections herein described.

An agent for the Eastern Cherokees.
An agent for the Florida Indians.

An agent for the Indians in the State of Indiana.
An agent at Chicago.

An agent at Rock island.

An agent at Prairie du Chien.

An agent for Michilimackinac and the Sault Sainte Marie.

An agent for the Saint Peter's.

An agent for the Upper Missouri.

And the following agencies shall be discontinued at the periods herein mentioned, that is to say:

The Florida agency, from and after the thirty-first day of December next.

The Cherokee agency, from and after the thirty-first day of December next.

The Indiana agency, from and after the thirty-first day of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-six. The Chicago agency, from and after the thirty-first day of December next.

The Rock island agency, from and after the thirty-first day of December, eighteen hundred and thirty six.

SEC. 30. And be it further enacted, That, until a Western Territory shall be established, the two agents for the Western Territory, as provided in the act for the organization of the Indian department, this day approved by the President, shall execute the duties of agents for such And all other agencies, not provided for in this act, tribes as may be directed by the President of the United from and after the passing thereof Provided, That the States. And it shall be competent for the President to limitation of the said agencies shall not be construed to assign to one of the said agents, in addition to his proper prevent the President of the United States from disconduties, the duties of superintendent for such district of tinuing the same at an earlier period. And the Presi country or for such tribes as the President may think fit. dent shall be, and he is hereby, authorized, whenever he And the powers of the superintendent at St. Louis over may judge it expedient, to discontinue any Indian agency, such district or tribes as may be assigned to such acting or to transfer the same, from the place or tribe designasuperintendent shall cease: Provided, That no additional ted by law, to such other place or tribe as the public sercompensation shall be allowed for such services. Approved, June 30, 1834.

AN ACT to provide for the organization of the Department of Indian Affairs.

vice may require. And every Indian agent shall reside and keep his agency within or near the territory of the tribe for which he may be agent, and at such place as the President may designate, and shall not depart from the limits of his agency without permission. And it shall be competent for the President to require any military officer of the United States to execute the duties of Indian agent.

Be it enacted, &c., That the duties of the Governors of the Territories of Florida and Arkansas, as Superintendents of Indian Affairs, shall hereafter cease, and the duties of the Governor of the Territory of Michigan, as SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That a competent Superintendent of Indian Affairs, shall cease from and number of sub-agents shall be appointed by the President, after the establishment of a new Territory, embracing the with an annual salary of seven hundred and fifty dollars country west of Lake Michigan, should such a Territory each, to be employed and to reside wherever the Presibe established. And while the Governor of the said Ter-dent may direct, and who shall give bonds, with one or ritory of Michigan continues to act as Superintendent more sureties, in the penal sum of one thousand dollars, of Indian Affairs, he shall receive therefor the annual sum for the faithful execution of the same. But no sub-agent of one thousand dollars, in full of all allowances, emolu- shall be appointed who shall reside within the limits of any ments, or compensation for services in said capacity. agency where there is an agent appointed. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That there shall be a superintendency of Indian affairs for all the Indian country not within the bounds of any State or Territory west of the Mississippi river, the superintendent of which shall reside at St. Louis, and shall annually receive a salary of fifteen hundred dollars.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to require the reappointment of persons now in office, until the expiration of their present term of service; but the commissions of all Indian agents and sub-agents, now in office, shall expire on the fourth day of March next, unless sooner terminated.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That Superintendents SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the limits of of Indian Affairs shall, within their several superintenden-leach agency and sub-agency shall be established by the