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THE ( AHI)E\ JOIHVll. [OT SER1ES1 VOL 1 CAMPEW' SOTO" ^lAOLUVA, SAXURPAY, AtCEST ?g, 1840. ' ^ LAND FOE SALE.I OFFER for sale nil that lot of enclosed Land, containing33 acres, more or less, extending northward from the Magazine to the Slaughter Pen, and eastward from Mill Street to Pine Tree Creek. ALSO?Two lots on King Street, Nos. 319 and 330 ALSO?1,000 acres, more or less, of -excellent Black Jack Woodland, lying on the waters of Saunders' creek, about seven miles above Camden, bounded on the north and east by lands of John M. DeSaussure, and on the 6outh and west by - -C forcliaw. Jands belonging to the estate " Conditions made to suit purchasers. HARRIET C. BREVARD. Camden, July 11. 6l33 | ^ ^ 11 ^ By Authority, Laws of the United States, Passed at the first Session of the twenty sixth Congresss. [Public?No. 24] AN ACT to annex a certaih tract of land tn tlip Coosa land district, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That such part of township twenty-two, of range two, east, northern survey, State of Alabama, as lies east of the Coosa river, & was ceded to the U. States by the Creek nation of Indians, by a treaty concluded on the ninth day of August, eighteen hundred and fourteen, be. and the same is hereby annexed to the Coosa land district; and all surveys, sales, and other proceed-ings heretofore had in reference to said tract hereby annexed as aforesaid, shall be as valid as they would have been had the same, at the time such proceedings were had, formed a part of said district, and no further. R. M. T. HUNTER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Jill. ill. JUl1i\SUi>, Vice President of the United Stales, and President of the Senate. Approved, July 20th, 1840. M. VAN BUREN. JPoblic?No. 25.] Aft ACT making appropriations for the^ current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfiling treaty stipulations with the various Indian tribes, for the year one thousand eight .hundred and forty. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Con gi ess assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty, for the purpose of paying the current expenses of the Indian Department, fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian tribes, and vcontingent expenses; to be paid out of any money m ine ireasuiy nox umerwisu appropriated. For the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, viz: For the pay of the, superintendent of Indian affairs at St. Louis, and the several Indian agents, as provided by the acts of June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, and of March third, eighteen hundred and thirty-seV?n, sixteen thousand five hundred dollars; For pay of sub-agents, authorized by the act of June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, thirteen thousand dollars; For the pay of interpreters, as authorized by the same act, eleven thousand three 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 mi u hneiness. eleven thousand eioht hun jJUUHV wv?wu.v?y ? , dred dollars; For the necessary buildings required at the. several agencies, and repairs thereof, two thousand dollars. For postages, rents, stationery, fuel for offices, and other contingencies of the Indian Department, and for transportation and incidental expenses, thirty-six thousand five hundred dollars; For the salary of one clerk in the office of the superintendent of Indian affairs, south of the Missouri river, one thousand dollars; For carrying into effect the stipulations of certain Indian treaties, and the laws connected therewith, viz: For the Christian Indians, four hundred dollars; n .i xr: : ror inu V/iiipp^""*0 ui mc -Mississippi, hiiiy-five thousand dollars; For expenses incurred by the Commissioner in examination of claims under the third and fourth articles of the treaty of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, with said Chippevyas of the Mississippi, three hundred dollars; For the Chippewasof Saganaw, five thousand eight hundred dollars; For expenses attending the examination of claims against said Chippewas of Saganaw under the fourth article of the: treaty of January, eighteen hundred and j * *' ?I./Mi5<infl fivo hnnrlrarl I uiiriy-seveu, uueu iuuuacu?? and fifty dollars; For the Chippcwas, Menomonies, Winneftagoes, and New York Indians, one thousand five hundred dollars; For the Chippewas, Ottowas, and Pottawatomies, thirty-four thousand two hundred and ninety dollars. For the Choctaws, fifty-five thousand four hundred and seventy-five dollars For the Creeks, sixty-three thousand nine hundred and forty dollars; For payment of the claim presented-by the Alabama emigrating company, and allowed by the accounting officers, thirtyeight thousand six hundred and forty-six dollars; For the Chickasaws, six thousand dollars; For the Cherokees, seven thousand six hundred and forty dollars; For the Delawares, ten thousand three hundred and forty-four dollars; For the Caddoes, ten thousand dollars; For the Florida Indians, nine thousand oi*- kunrlrprt nnrl ten dollars: For'the Iowas, seven thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; For the Kickapoos, five thousand five hundred dollars; For the Kaskaskias and Peorias, three thousand dollars; For the Kanzas, six thousand and forty dollars; For the Miamies, fifty-two thousand six hundred and seventy-eight dollars; For expenses of the commission to examine claims under the fifth and sixth articles of the Miami treaty of eighteen hun- j dred and thirty-eight, in addition to the ( appropriation of last year, fifteen hundred dollars; For assistance in agriculture, stipulated in the fifteeifth article of the treaty of October sixth, eighteen hundred and eighteen, two hundred dollars; For the Eel Rivers, one thousand one hundred dollars; For the Mertomonies, thirty-one thousand eight hundred and thirty dollars; Omntina fnnr thousand seven A'Ul 111V> V/iliUilU0) v.. hundred and forty dollars. For the Ottowas and Chippewas, sixtytwo thousand four hundred and sixty-five dollars; For the Ottoes and Missourias, five thousand six hundred and fortydollars; For the Osages, thirty-four thousand four hundred and six dollars-, For the erection of houses for smiths, under the second article of the treaty with the Osages, of eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, eight hundred dollars; For expenses attending the examination of claims under the second article of the treaty with the Osages, in addition to the appropriation of eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, eleven hundred dollars;' For the Ottowas, four thousand three 1 r?o? ] I1UIIU1CU uuimio, For the Pottawatomies, twenty thousand two hundred dollars; 1 For the Pottawatomies of Huron, four hundred dollars; For the Pottawatomies of the Prairie, 1 sixteen thousand dollars; 1 I For the Pottawatomies of the Wabash, < twenty thousand dollars; For the Pottawatomies of Indiana, se- 1 venteen thousand dollars; I For the Piankeshaws, eight hundred dollars; For the Pawnees, nine thousand six hundred doutirs; # 1 For the QuaptiWS, four thousand six ' l?nJivii; onrt civtv dnlinrs: I lilillUlCiU UUU OIAVJ / j For the Six Nations of New York, four | thousand five hundred dollars; For the Scnecas of New York, six thousand dollars; For the Sioux of the Mississippi, fortytwo thousand five hundred and ten dollars; For the Yancton and Santic Sioux, four thousand three hundred and forty dollars; For the Sacs and Foxes of the Missouri, seven thousand eight hundred and seventy ^nllnrc* # VIVilUI C) For the Sacs and Foxes of the Mississippi, fifty-four thousand five hundred and forty dollars; For the Sacs, Foxes, Iowas, Sioux, Omahaws, and Ottocs, and Missourias, three thousand dollars; For the Shawnees, seven thousand one hundred and eighty dollars; For the Scnccas and Shawnees, two thousand and sixty dollars; , j For the Senecas, two thousand six nun-1 'dred and sixty dollars; For the Wyandots, six thousand eight hundred and forty dollars; For the Weas, three thousand dollars; For the Wyandots, Munsees, and Delawares, one thousand dollars; For the Winnebagoes, ninety-two thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars; For the expenses of the Commission appointed to examine claims under treaty with the Winnebagoes, in lieu of the same sum appropriated last year for the Sioux erroneously, five thousand five .hundred dollars; For expenses attending the removal of the Winnebago Indians from their present residence^ in Wisconsin, to the neutral ground across the Mississippi river, estimating the number at four thousand five hundred, to cost ten dollars each, forty-five thousand dollars; For the erection of a gristmill for the Winnebagocs, as stipulated in the sixth clause of the fourth article of the treaty with them of November first, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, three thousand dollars; For expenses of breaking up and fencing in ground after the removal of the Winncbagoes, as per seventh clause of fourth article of the same treaty, ten thousand dollars; To carry into effect the treaty of the 4 -1 D ?ni/wlif Imnrl r*o/4 n nrl IIJII a OUpiCIIIUCI ) t'IglllCUli uuuutvui thirly-niiie, with the Stockbridge and Munsee tribes of Indians, ratified sixteenth May, eighteen hundred and forty, tliirtysix thousand two hundred and sixty-five dollars and forty cents. Approved, July 20th, 1840. _ *. [Public?No 26,] AN ACT making appropriations for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Lnited States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be appropriated in addition to the unexpended balances of former appropriations, out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty, viz: Tor the pay of commissioned, warrant, and petty officers and seamen, two millions two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; For 4he pay of superintendents, naval - ?i _n constructors, anu an uie uivu caiauumr mcnts at the several yards, seventy-four thousand six hundred and twenty dollars; For provisions, six hundred and twenty thousand dollars; For repairs of vessels in ordinary, and the repairs and wear and tear of vessels in commission, one million of dollars; For medicines and surgical instruments, hospital stores, and other expenses on account of the sick, seventy-five thousand dollars; For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, twenty thousand dollars; PV?r imnmvompni and nencssarv reoairs of the navy yard at Charlestown, Massachusetts, seventeen thousand dollars; For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Brooklyn, New York, eighteen thousand dollars; For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, five thousand dollars; For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Washington, twenty thousand dollars; For improvement and necessary repairs i of the navy yard at Gosporty Virginia, >, seventeen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard, near Pensacola, tliirtoon Virmecinr! rlnllnfC IvUlf lilUUOUUU UV1IIUWJ Provided, That no more of the several appropriations last mentioned for the improvement and repair of the navy yards, shall be expended previous to the fourth < day of March next, than shall be found by the Secretary of the Navy, upon inquiries made for the purpose to be absolutely necessry for the preservation of the public works, the security of the public property, and the prosecution of public business at the respective yards; For ordnance and ordnance stores sixtyfive thousand dollars; JFor defraying the expenses that .may <"??? ftrn fnllnwinor nnrnoses. viz: For UWiUb 1V1 e , t , 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 for pursers, when duly authorized; for funeral expenses; for commissions, clerk-hire, office-rent, stationary, and fuel to navy agents; for premiums, and incidental expenses of recruiting; for apprehending deserters; for compensation to judges-advoA ^ 1 ?ll/%t?ror?/*n *a r?rtro/\no C3.1C} lor per CIIU1II dui/u anv/U tu pvi ovua attending courts-martial and courts of inquiry, or other services authorized by law; for printing and stationery of cVcrv * i ' ' ' ' . y * description, and for working the lithographic press; for books, maps, charts, mathematical and nautical instruments, chrpnometers, models and* drawings}* for the purchase and repair of fire engines and machinery; for the repair of steam-engines in navy yards; for the purchase and maintenance of oxen and horses, and for carts, timber-wheels, and workmen's tools of every description; for postage of letters on public service; for pilotage and toeing ships of war; for taxes and assessments on public property; for assistance rQpdered to vessels in distress; for incidental labor at navy yards, not applicable to any other appropriation; for coal and other fuel, and for candles and oil for the use of navy yards and shore stations, and for no other object or purpose whatever, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars; For contingent expenses for objects not herein before enumerated, three thousand dollars; For pay of the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, and subsistence of the officers of the marine rnrns. one hundred and seventv-five thousand and fifty dollars and forty cents; For provisions for the non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates serving on shore, servants and washerwomen, forty-five thousand and fifty-four dollars and ninety-nine cents; For clothing, forty-three thousand six hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty cents; For fuel, sixteen thousand two hundred and seventy-four dollars and twelve cents: For keeping barracks in repair, until new ones shall be erected, and for rent of temporary barracks at New York, six thousand dollars; For transportation of officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, and expenses of recruiting, eight thousand dollars. ; For medicines, hospital stores, surgical instruments and pay of matron and hospital stewards, four thousand one hundred, and forty dollars; For military stores, pay of armorers,' keeping arms in repair, accoutrements!. 1 1 ? ? am/1 florlnimo ana orundiic^ siujcsj cum uiuiu^ and fifes, two thousand three hundred dollars; For contingent expenses of said , corps, viz: for freight, ferriage, toll, wharfage and cartage; for per diem allowance for attending courts-martial and courts of inquiry, compensation to judges-advocate, house-rent where there are ro public quarters assigned, per diem allowance to enlisted men on constant l&bor, expenses of burying deceased mariners, printing, stationery, forage, postage on public fetters, expenses in pursuit of deserters, candles and oil, straw, barrackforniture, bed sacks, spades, axes, shovels, picks, carpenters' tools, and for the purchase of" a horse for j thfi messenger and keening the same, se-1 venteen thousand nine hundred and eigh- j ty dollars; j For coppering the roof of the hospital 1 buildingat New York, and for other neces- j sary expenses upon the same, and its de- J pendencies, nine thousand five hundred dollars; For necessary repairs of the hospital ' building at Norfolk, and its dependencies, ( three thousand five hundred dollars; ' For furnishing hospital number three, , at Pensacola, and for building a stable, and other necessary appendages, and for J current repairs on tne other buildings, ' ssven thousand dollars; - - For the necessary repairs to the asylum; j at Philadelphia, and its dependencies, four ' thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, j \ Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, Th*t in addition to the sum of three hundre and thirty thousand dollars, which wa. placed subject to the disposition of the } Navy Department by the second section 1 of the act of Congress making appropria- 1 tions for the naval service lor year one ' thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, * the further sum of three hundred and for- c ty thousand dollars of the amount hereto- 3 fore appropriated for the gradual improve- f ment of the navy, is hereby directed to ( be placed subject to the disposition of the * department aforesaid, for the purpose or completing the two steam-Vessels which ^ have been commenced, in case that amount can be diverted from that appropriation 1 without impairing the ability of thej Navy 1 Department to make payments under exis- < ting contracts prior to the fourth day of ? March, eighteen hundred and forty-one, | and if that cannot be done consistently ' with the rights of contractors and the pub- I lie interests, then so much of the said * sum of three hundred and forty thousand i dollars as can be so diverted to this ob- i ject, from the appropriation referred to, 1 shall be subject to the disposition of the Secretary of the Navy for this purpose, and the said sum of three hupdred and forty thousand dollars, to bs expended in i the manner in this section prescribed, shall r * - " * ; ? be in addition to any materialsnow o?r hand applicable Jo the construction of th& fs~ l said steam-vessels of war. . ?v vr .. >* * Sue. 3. And be it further enacted. That ' . all appropriations and all reraaing balances J ' of appropriations heretofore made for building, rebuilding, replacing^' purchasing, or repairing vessehs of war, or other. ' vessels, for the use of the navy, or- for the purchase of timber, ordnance, aMgjfc'? other articles for building, arming, equip- ; 1 ping, or repairing vessels of the..navy, or for the repairs of vessels in onrosuy, and . repair, wear aitu ic?u ui? vcbsc<? m cwo^ mission, together with any materials which * > have been, or may be, collected under any of the said appropriations, asd-v the same are hereby, transferred to ooe head of appropriation^ to be-called i"the. appropriation for the increase,, repair, armament and equipment of the navy* and wear and tear of vessels i& com mission;* , and the amount of said* appropriation, and of such other, as may be made here- ? after for like purposes, and the materials which have been, or may be hereafter collected for the same, may be exepended and used by the Secretary of the Na#yT" in hnilHincr. reolacing. arming, rahairmg. equipping, and employing any vessels which Congress may have authorized, or may hereafter authorize to be built, rebuilt;5 purchased' or replaced, in such manner as the interest or necessities of the service may require. . . ' :Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That i it shall be the duty of the Secretary of v j the Navy to cause to be laid before Con?; * * gress, annually, as soon after the beginr ning of eachyear as practicable, a state-*, ment of the amounts expended during ' the preceding fiscal year for wages of mechanics and laborers employe in building. repairing, or equipping vessels of the navy, or Tn receiving and securing stores and materials for those purposes; and for the purchase of materials and stores for the same purposes; a statement of the /* cost or estimated value of the stores on hand, under this appropriation, in the navy yards at the commencement of-the next preceding fiscal year; the cost, or estimated value, of articles received and expended during the year, and the cos*, or estimated valued of the articles belonging to this appropriation which' may be on hand in the navy yards at the close of the next preceding fiscal year. 1 A Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That whenever in the opinion of the Secretary of the Navy it shall be conducive to the public interest to use any article of provisions, materials, or other stores, for a different appropriation from that under which they may have been purchased for the naval service, it shall be lawful for him to * ?J IvA kttf Jtiai authorize sucn use, auu n duou w mo Mu to certify to the Secretary of the Treaty, the value or cost of the articled thus used; and the Secretary of the TreaMwy hereby authorized and required to quae . the proper officers of the Treasury, to -w transfer the amount of such cost or value upon the books of the Treasury, from the appropriation for which the articles may have been used,. to the appropriation from which they may have been or may be taken, so that the actual expenditure on- v ' der each may be accurately shown. '? Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the following sum, being the unexpended balance of a former appropriation which I 1 tkfl rrp/lii of fchft Rlir fills UCCII UUl 1 1UU iV VUV VM ?. _ ? ? plus fund, be, and the same is hereby reappropriated, viz: For distribution as prize money among :he officers and crew of the private armed arig General Armstrong, per act of thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and thirty* our, two thousand nine hundred and se- > nty-five dollars and twenty cents, * Sec. 7. Andcbe it further enacted, That here be appropriated, from any money n the Treasury not otherwise appropriaed,v for the immediate survey of the coast rom Apalachicola Bay, to the mouth of he Mississippi river, for the ascertainment )f the practicability of establishing a reavy fard and naval station which shall Jbest subserve the protection of the commerce >f the Gulf of Mexico, the sum of ten to be cxDended under .IlUUSdllU uviiimw) ? fe ;he direction of the Commissioners of' the LVavy Board. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That whenever the President of the United States shall have authorized the transfer * }f any money from any head of the p.aval appropriations to other heads of naval appropriations as authorized by the act of Congress approved thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, immediately after the naval appropriations for the year shall have been made, to cause all such transfers to be repaid, by rctransfers on the books of the Treasury, so as to preserve for each appropriation the amounts which were granted by Con <rrcss. Atpb'Jvcd July 20ih, 1S10. i : *% i.f , \