B. STATEMENT exhibiting the names of the tribes south and west of the Missouri, and between the Puncah and Red rivers; the quantity of land held by each; the population of each; and the number of acres for each individual, and the tenure by which the land is held by them, respectively; also, the same particulars in relation to the tribes named in the resolution of the House of Representatives of December 23, 1836. 15,000,000 15,000 2 1,000 Guaranty Creeks and Seminoles 13,140,000 21,000 626 Do. Treaty of May 13, 1833. Weas, Piankeshaws, Pe orias, & Kaskaskias 259,840 516 503 Do. Treaty of September 27, 1830. Treaties of January 24, 1826, March 24, 1832, and February 14, 1833; Treaties of May 6, 1828, February 14, 1833, and December 29, 1835. Treaty of July 20, 1831. Treaties of 27th and 29th of October, 1832. Ottawas 34,000 200 173 Do. Treaty of August 30, 1831. Shawnees 100,000 1,272 1,336 Guaranty Treaty of August 8, 1831. Shawnees 1,600,000 A gift Treaty of November 7, 1825. Delawares 2,208,000 826 2,661 Guaranty Kickapoos Senecas 768,000 588 1,307 Do. 67,000 251 267 Do. Treaties of October 3, 1818, and September 24, 1829 Treaty of October 24, 1832. Treaty of February 28, 1831. Osages 7,564,800 5,120 1,466 Indian title Treaty of June 2, 1825. Kanzas 2,510,080 1,471 1,706 Do. Treaty of June 3, 1825. Otoes and Missourias 1,536,000 1,600 960 Do. Treaty of September 21, 1833. Omahas 4,990,720 1,400 3,564 Do. Pawnees 16,000,000 10,000 600 Do. Treaty of October 9, 1833. Ioways, Sacs, and Foxes 11,000,000 7,200 1,528 Do. Treaties of August 19, 1825, and July 15, 1830. Winnebagoes. 4,183,040 4,500 907 Do. Sioux *4,630,400 27,500 Do. Treaties of August 19, 1825, and September 21, 1832. + This is the estimated quantity of pine lands on the Mississippi which it is thought expedient to purchase. D. OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, In making an estimate of the sums that will be required to accomplish the objects contemplated in my report of this date, the particular items cannot now be stated. Negotiations will be necessary with fifteen tribes, most of them in remote parts of the country, distant from each other, and of different habits. It is almost impossible to say what numbers of them will be assembled, or to designate the points to which provisions and other articles for their subsistence and comfort, and for the negotiators on the part of the Government, will have to be transported. Desirous to avoid the delay that would attend the preparation of an approximate estimate, I have thought it best to assume the actual expenditures at the treaties held by Governor Dodge during the last year, as a basis. These amounted, at each treaty, to about four thousand dollars ($4,000); the amount required for the fifteen treaties contemplated, will be sixty thousand dollars, ($60,000.) For the expenses of the surveys, and examinations of exploring parties, I have, for the same reasons, assumed the actual expenditure for the exploring party under the treaty of Chicago, in 1833. These amounted to six thousand dollars, ($6,000.) Exploring parties will not probably be desired by any of the tribes but the Menomonees, Winnebagoes, Sacs, and Foxes; and for these, at the rate indicated, eighteen thousand dollars ($18,000) will be wanted. For the surveys I have assumed the appropriation for that of the lands given to the Cherokees by the treaty of December 29, 1835, embracing 1,250 square miles, which was seven thousand dollars, ($7,000.) The necessary surveys will require a much larger sum. Of the unappropriated lands, containing 25,877 square miles, it is presumed that four times the above sum, or twenty-eight thousand dollars, ($28,000,) will defray the expenses of all the surveys that can be made during the current year. I therefore respectfully suggest, that the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) be inserted in the blank in the third section of the bill. 2d Session. Executive. WESTERN BOUNDARY OF MISSOURI. MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, TRANSMITTING The copy of an act of the Legislature of the State of Missouri, declaring the assent of that State to the act of Congress, entitled "An act to extend the western boundary of the State of Missouri to the Missouri river." Approved June 7, 1836. To the House of Representatives of the United States: I transmit to Congress, herewith, the copy of an act of the State of Missouri, passed on the 16th ultimo, expressing the assent of that State to the several provisions of the act of Congress entitled "An act to extend the western boundary of the State of Missouri to the Missouri river," approved June 7th, 1836. A copy of the act, duly authenticated, has been deposited in the Department of State. WASHINGTON, January 17, 1837. ANDREW JACKSON. AN ACT to express the assent of the State of Missouri to the extension of the western boundary line of the State. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: 1. That the State of Missouri has, and by this act does declare her assent to the several provisions of the act of Congress, entitled "An act to extend the western boundary of the State of Missouri to the Missouri river," approved the 7th of June, 1836, and does hereby accept the same. 2. The Governor of this State is authorized to transmit to the proper authority of the United States a copy of this act, duly certified under the great s at seal of state. Approved: December 16, 1836. Blair & Rives, printers. JOHN JAMESON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President of the Senate. LILBURN W. BOGGS. I, Lilburn W. Boggs, Governor of the State of Missouri, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of " An act to express the assent of the State of Missouri to the extension of the western boundary line of the State," approved as set forth, December 16th, 1836. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the great seal of the State to be affixed. Done at the city of Jefferson, this [SEAL.] nineteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and of the independence of the United States the sixty-first, and of the State of Missouri the seventeenth. By the GOVERNOR: LILBURN W. BOGGS. HENRY SHURLDS, Secretary of State. 2d Session. MEMORIAL FOR IMPROVEMENT OF ALLEGANY RIVER, FROM PITTSBURG TO OLEAN. MEMORIAL OF INHABITANTS OF PENNSYLVANIA, PRAYING Congress to make an appropriation for the improvement of the Allegany river. JANUARY 16, 1837. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. To the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled: The undersigned, your memorialists, respectfully solicit the attention of your honorable bodies to the subject of the improvement of the Allegany ver, for steam navigation, between Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and Olean, New York. Frequently the attention of the public, and on different occasions that of Congress, for the last few years, has been called to the importance of the Allegany river, as opening a direct communication from the State of New York into the vast valley of the Mississippi; but its claims upon the favorable action of the General Government have hitherto been neglected or overlooked. Such is the geographical position of this river for local trade-extending into the State of New York, communicating with the Ohio; thence affording a water communication into twelve of the States of this republic-that, with the feasibility of the improvement once established, every impartial mind must concede its importance. But at no period has its importance been equal to the present. By the last Legislature of New York, a loan of three millions of dollars was granted to the New York and Erie Rail-road Company, (before incorporated with a capital of $10,000,000,) also an appropriation made for the immediate construction of the Genesee Valley canal, from Rochester to this river; both of which improvements are in a state of rapid progress, and are to unite with the Allegany at, or in the vicinity of, Olean: so that, with these completed, nothing will remain but the improvement of the Allegany, to effect the long desired object of an uninterrupted communication by water and railway, from the city of New York, and the other great commercial emporums of the Atlantic border, to the country bordering upon the Ohio, the Blair & Rives, printers. |