ACTS OF THE TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS Jan. 27, 1835. [Obsolete.] Appropriation for the Indian department. Superintendent and agents. 1834, ch. 162. Sub-agents. Interpreters. Presents. Provisions. Buildings. Postage, &c. 1834, ch. 162. Contingencies. STATUTE II. Jan. 27, 1835. [Obsolete.] Appropriation. OF THE UNITED STATES, Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the first day of December, 1834, and ended on the third day of March, 1835. ANDREW JACKSON, President; MArtin Van Buren, Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate; JOHN BELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STATUTE II. CHAP. II.-An Act making appropriations for the current expenses of the Indian department for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the current expenses of the Indian department for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, viz: For the pay of the superintendent of Indian affairs, and the several Indian agents, as provided for by the act of thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, fifteen thousand dollars. For the pay of sub-agents, allowed by the same act, ten thousand five hundred dollars. For the pay of interpreters allowed by the same act, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For presents to Indians, authorized by the same act, five thousand dollars. For the purchase of provisions for Indians, at the distribution of annuities, while on visits of business with the superintendents and agents, and when assembled on public business, eleven thousand eight hundred dollars. For the necessary buildings required at the several agencies and repairs thereof, two thousand dollars. For postage, stationery, and rent and fuel for offices, as authorized by the act of June thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, three thousand dollars. For contingencies of the Indian department, four thousand dollars. CHAP. III.—An Act making an appropriation for the completion of the military barracks at New Orleans. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the sum of one hundred and seven thousand five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby appro priated and made payable out of any money in the treasury not otherwise CHAP. IV.—An Act making appropriations for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five-that is to say: For the pay of the army, nine hundred and eighty-seven thousand and forty-five dollars. STATUTE II. Jan. 27, 1835. [Obsolete.] Appropriation for support of the army. Pay. For subsistence of officers, three hundred and fourteen thousand eight Subsistence of hundred and ninety-nine dollars. For forage of officers, sixty thousand three hundred and thirty-one dollars. For clothing for officers' servants, twenty-four thousand eight hundred and ten dollars. For subsistence, exclusive of that of officers, in addition to an unexpended balance of seventy-five thousand dollars, the sum of three hundred and forty-one thousand seven hundred dollars. For clothing of the army, camp and garrison equipage, cooking utensils, hospital furniture, &c., &c., one hundred and fifty-four thousand three hundred and eighty-seven dollars. For the medical and hospital department, thirty-one thousand five hundred dollars. For various expenses in the quartermaster's department, viz: fuel, forage, straw, stationery, blanks, and printing; repairing and enlarging barracks, quarters, storehouses, and hospitals at the various posts; erecting temporary cantonments at such posts as shall be occupied during the year, including huts for the dragoons, and gun-houses at the Atlantic posts, and those on the Gulf of Mexico, with the necessary tools and materials; providing materials for the authorized furniture of the rooms of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; rent of quarters, barracks and storehouses, and of grounds for summer cantonments and encampments, including a farm at fort Monroe for military practice; postage on public letters and packets; expenses of courts martial and courts of inquiry, including the compensation of judge advocates, members and witnesses; extra pay to soldiers, under an act of Congress of the second March, eighteen hundred and nineteen; expenses of expresses from the frontier posts, of escorts to paymasters, hire of labourers, compensation to extra clerks in the office of the quartermaster general, and in the offices of the quartermasters and assistants at posts where their duties cannot be performed without such aid, and to temporary agents in charge of dismantled works and in the performance of other duties, coffins and other articles necessary at the interment of non-commissioned officers and soldiers, and purchase of horses, and various other expenditures necessary to keep the regiment of dragoons complete, in addition to an unexpended balance of twenty thousand dollars, the sum of three hundred and twelve thousand dollars. officers. Forage. Clothing. Subsistence. Clothing, &c. Medical department. Department of quartermaster. For the allowance made to the officers for the transportation of their Transportation baggage, when travelling on duty without troops, and allowances to of baggage, &c. officers on topographical duty and superintending working parties, fifty three thousand dollars. For transportation of clothing from the depôt at Philadelphia to the Transportation stations of the troops, of subsistence from the places of purchase and of clothing, &c. points of delivery, under contracts, to the posts where they are required to be used, of ordnance from the founderies and arsenals, to the frontier posts and the fortifications, and lead from the western mines to the several arsenals, transportation of the army, including officers, when removing with troops either by land or water, freight and ferriages, purchase or hire of horses, oxen, mules, carts, wagons and boats for transportation of troops and supplies, and for garrison purposes, drayage and cartageat the several posts, hire of teamsters, transportation of funds for the pay department, the expense of sailing a public transport between the several posts on the Gulf of Mexico, and procuring water at such posts as from their situation require it, the sum of one hundred and thirty-eight thousand dollars. Contingencies. Ordnance. Arrearages. Discharged soldiers. Appropriation of unexpended balance. For contingencies of the army, ten thousand dollars. For the national armories, three hundred and thirty thousand dollars. For armament of new fortifications, one hundred thousand dollars. For arsenals, ninety-four thousand three hundred and thirty-four dol lars. For the current expenses of the ordnance service, sixty-eight thousand four hundred dollars. For arrearages prior to the first of July, eighteen hundred and fifteen, payable through the office of the third auditor, in addition to an unexpended balance of three thousand two hundred and seventy-nine dollars and seventy-four cents, the sum of two thousand dollars. For arrearages between the first of July, eighteen hundred and fifteen, and the first of January, eighteen hundred and seventeen, payable through the office of the second auditor, one thousand five hundred dollars. For payments in lieu of clothing to discharged soldiers, thirty thousand dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That of the balance of thirty-eight thousand three hundred and seventy-nine dollars and fifty-two cents, which now stands to the credit of "bounties and premiums,” on the books of the treasury, appropriated for the service of eighteen hundred and thirtythree, and which is not wanted for that object, in consequence of the 1833, ch. 68. change made in the mode, of enlisting, by the act of second March eighteen hundred and thirty-three, the sum of fifty-four dollars be, and the same is hereby directed to be transferred to the credit of "two months' extra pay, per act second March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three;" and the sum of seventeen thousand six hundred and sixty dollars to the credit of "expenses of recruiting," to be used for the recruiting service of one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five. APPROVED, January 27, 1835. STATUTE II. Jan. 27, 1835. [Obsolete.] Appropriations for pensioners. Revolutionary pensioners. 1832, ch. 126. CHAP. V.-An Act making appropriations for the payment of the revolutionary and other pensioners of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the pensioners of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five: For the revolutionary pensioners, under the several acts prior to that of the seventh of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, in addition to an unexpended balance of two hundred and seventy-three thousand and five dollars and fifty-three cents, the sum of four hundred and fifty-eight thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine dollars and forty seven cents. For the invalid pensioners, under various laws, in addition to an unexpended balance of sixty-nine thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars, the sum of two hundred and forty-one thousand two hundred and nineteen dollars. Invalid pen sioners. Widows and For pensions to widows and orphans, in addition to an unexpended balance of three thousand five hundred and eighty-four dollars and forty- orphans. nine cents, the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars. APPROVED, January 27, 1835. STATUTE II. CHAP. VI.-An Act to allow further time to complete the issuing and locating of Jan. 27, 1835. military land warrants during the late war. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the act entitled "An act to allow further time to complete the issuing and locating of military land warrants," approved the twenty-sixth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, and also the operations of the act approved the twenty-fourth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, which, by said act of one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, is revived, be, and the said acts are hereby, extended and continued in force for the term of five years from and after the twenty-sixth day of May last. APPROVED, January 27, 1835. Acts of May 26,1824, ch.177, 24, 1819, ch. 41, and of February revived. CHAP. VII.-An Act to extend the time of issuing military land warrants to the officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army. STATUTE II. Jan. 27, 1835. Time extend 1840. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the time allowed for issuing ed to January 1, military land warrants to the officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army shall be extended to the first day of January, eighteen hundred and forty. APPROVED, January 27, 1835. STATUTE II. CHAP. XVII.—An Act for the final adjustment of claims to lands in the state of Louisiana. (a) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That any person or persons having claims to lands in the state of Louisiana, whose claims have been recognised by former laws as valid, but which have not heretofore been confirmed to the grantees or their legal representatives, be, and they are hereby, authorized to present their claims to the register and receiver of the land office in which the land may lie, within two years from the passage of this act, together with the written and other testimony in support of the same, and it shall be the duty of the register and receiver to record in a book to be kept by them for that purpose, the notice of every claim so preferred, together with the evidence in support of the same; and the said register and receiver are hereby further authorized to receive any evidence for and on behalf of other individuals who may resist the confirmation of any such claim either on their own behalf, or that of the United States, and cause to be taken any evidence which shall be deemed necessary and proper by them to have such claim properly and justly settled, and to have the same likewise recorded in said book, for Feb. 6, 1835. Valid claims to be presented to register and receiver within two years. (a) Notes of the acts relating to the adjustment of land claims in Louisiana, vol. iii. p. 528. Report of the claims, with tes timony and opinions on validity of each, to be made, and laid beforeCongress. STATUTE II. Feb. 13, 1835. [Obsolete.] Appropriations service. which service, in recording the applicant's title-papers and evidence, they shall be entitled to receive from said applicant at the rate of twentyfive cents for every hundred words. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the registers and receivers of the land offices, at or before the beginning of each session of Congress thereafter, to make to the Secretary of the Treasury a report of the claims which may have been presented before them, together with the testimony, accompanied by their opinions of the validity of each claim, and such other information respecting them as may be in their possession, which said report shall, by the Secretary of the Treasury, be laid before Congress as soon as practicable, with the opinion of the commissioner of the general land office, touching the validity of the respective claims. APPROVED, February 6, 1835. CHAP. XIX.-An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United for the naval States of America, in Congress assembled, That the following sums be appropriated for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, in addition to the unexpended balances of former appropriations, viz: Pay and subsistence. Pay of superintendents, &c. Provisions. Medicines, &c. Repairs, &c. For pay and subsistence of the officers of the navy and pay of seamen, one million five hundred and one thousand eight hundred and twentyfour dollars and forty-two cents. For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishment at the several yards, sixty-one thousand one hundred and eighty dollars. For provisions, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For repairs of vessels in ordinary, and the repairs and wear and tear of vessels in commission, nine hundred and seventy-four thousand dollars. For medicines and surgical instruments, hospital stores, and other expenses on account of the sick, forty thousand dollars. For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Portsmouth, of navy yards at New Hampshire, thirty-nine thousand nine hundred and twenty-five Portsmouth; Charlestown; Brooklyn ; Philadelphia; Washington; Pensacola. Repairs, &c. at Sackett's har bour. Ordnance, &c. Miscellaneous. dollars. For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Charlestown, Massachusetts, ninety-nine thousand five hundred dollars. For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Brooklyn, New York, forty-six thousand one hundred and twenty dollars. For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Philadelphia, three thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Washington, ten thousand dollars. For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Gosport, Virginia, one hundred thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Pensacola, forty-four thousand six hundred dollars. For repairs of building and preservation of a vessel at Sackett's Harbour, five hundred dollars. For ordnance, and ordnance stores, fifteen thousand dollars. For defraying the expenses that may accrue for the following purposes, viz: For the freight and transportation of materials and stores of every description, for wharfage and dockage, storage and rent, travelling expenses of officers, and transportation of seamen, house-rent, chamber |