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TOL. ra.
jfltooltfr lo ^grictilarc, laiscdianji, Ciicratarg, General 3nformation an¡> % Jtotemts of lije State.
TERMS $3 PER ANNUM.
Hewitt 8c Newton,
Attorneys and Voiitoselots at Law,
San Akto.xio. Texas,
WILL practice So the Texas Courts of the
Fourth and Second Judicial Districts,
and in the Supi-crtie Court at Austin.
Business entrnSfd to their care, will be
promptly and faithfully attended to.
Tfcejr TV HI also give their prompt attention to
the cólico lion of all claims entrusted to their
bare, and will act as General Land Agents.
Octol<er 9, 1851. 20-tf
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1852.
NO. 15.
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INVARIABLY
▼ANnr.bi.ip.
ira p. jones.
b. c vj
Van Derlip & Jones,
-fittbriieys ¿end Counselors at Law,
SAN ÁN+bNiO, TEXAS,
VviLL ATtÉNp PROMPTLY To ALL BUSINESS
ENTRUSTED TO THEIR CAftE.
QcloberjtJ83fc — - -- QO-tf
B. EC Edwards,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
AND GENERAL LAND AGENT.
-SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.— l::I
A. Settle,
Receiving, forwarding awocom-
mission Merchant,
bidianola, Texas.
Keeps constantly on hand a general assortment
of Groceries, Liquors, Provisions, Ship
Chandlery, Crockery, Saddlery,
48 ly] and Western Produce.
Angel Navarro,
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.
H. M. Lewis,
Attorney & couinselor-at-law.
Olfice : Jones New Bidding, (upstairs.)
Main Plaza. San Antunio. Texas. 52
General Auction and Com-
mission Business.
O ALE of property of all descriptions at Public
O Auction, or at private sale. Sales for ac-
count ol Administrator's. Will make purchases
and sales on private account. Strict attention
given to all business entrusted to him.
Oct. 2, '51. tf TRO WARD.
liefer enees:
Major James Belger, A U.. M., U. S. A.,
Captain L. B. Wood. A. C. S., U. S. A.
Maj. G. T. Howard, F. Guilbeau,
Messrs. Jas. R. Sweet & C . revine & Bro.
" Paschal & Richardson, Dr. J. H. Lyons,
" Lewis & Groesbeeck, J. D. McLeod.
Thos. H. O'S. A«ldieks,
Notary public and licensed
Real Estate Broker and Conveyancer,
G-Iy SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.
K. J. Jones,
DEPUTY SHERIFF AND
GEN Ell AL COLLECTING AGENT,
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS,
WILL attend promptly to the collection ol
ail claims entrusted to his care.
Office in the brick building of A. A. Lock-
wood, in Main street.
October. 1851. 20-ly
Thomas 11. Stribling,
Attorney and Counselor at JLaw,
SAN ANTONIO.
WILL attend promptly to all businessentrust-
ed to his care. May be found at all times
in Judge Pa^chal's office, in the brick building,
on the East side of the Plaza—up stairs—door
No. tí. Oct. 30-23-tf
Dr. jrl. P. Howard,
RESPECTFULLY tenders his professional
services to the citizens of San Antonio and
vicinity. Office ou Flores street, opposite Don
Casia pno's.
EL DOCTOR H. P. HOWARD tiene el
honor de ofrecer su> servicios profccionales
a los ciudadanos de San Antonio y vecindad.—
Su oficino se hallara en la calle de Flores en
renta la Casa de Don Casianno. 24-ly
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Dr. Lucían 8. Duval,
Graduate of Jfjftrson College, Philadelphia,
OFFERS his professional services to the
citizens of San Antonio. Olfice on Main
street, a few doors above Rose and McCarthy's
Store. 7-tf
VANCE & BROTHER,
merchants, etc.,
8-1 v SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.
VANCE & BROTHER,
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.
Emphlehlen sicli den deuteben Bewohnern
dieses Lindes zur Ueberiuachung von
Geldsummen,ober Wechseln nach alien Theilen
Deutschlands, ohne Kosten dafurzu berechnen.
8-1 v
j. r. atwatkr
J. M. DKVINR.
Drugs and Medicines.
I'MIE subscribers have formed a copan-
nership under the name and firm W
of J. M. DEVINE & CO., and will keep
a full and complete assortment of
DRUGS, MEDICINES, PAINTS, OIL, VAR-
NISHES, brushes, patent medicines,
nERTLMKRY, KaSCY ARTICLES, BOOKS,
STATIONKRV, &C .
At the sign of the Golden Mortar, corner of
Main Plaza and Solidad street.
J. M. DEVINE.
J. C. AT WATER.
San Antonio, May 1, 1852. 50-tf
Dr. W. G. Kingsbury
Surgeon Dentist.
WOULD respectfully inform the citizens of
San Antonio and vicinity, that he has per-
manently located in this place, for the purpose
or practicing his profession. All pains spared.
Prices moderate and work warranted.
San Antonio, Dec. 11th, 1851. tf
J. W. Ford,
JEWELLER,
Next door to Hewitt ¿fewton's Late Office, on
the Main Plaza, San Antonio, Texas,
RESPECTFULLY tenders his services
to the citizens of San Antonio and
vicinity, in all the various branches of his oc-
cupation. His long experience and thorough
^knowledge of his business, will recommend him
►to a liberal patronage. He keeps constantly on
fchand, and lor sale, Watches, Glasses, jieys,
Ipinger Ring , and a general assortment of orna-
taenial-Jewelry. 2?-ly
t3T Watches, Clocks and Je*velry repaired.
Fink & Miller, _
^Confectionery and •Family Groceries,
Commerce street,San Aotoaio,
Thankful for past fawrs,"respectfully
announce to the citizens Of; the city and
_ surrounding country that theykeepcon-
stantly on hand the best assortment of candy,
paste, lozenges, nuts, etc., ever brought to this
cit j, and that they are prepared to furnish cakes,
candy and syrups of every description, by order,
rat the lowest prices; also, that their well-known
SQDA FOUNTAIN will be continued for all
. those who may favor them with their, pátronage.
Tihey keep on hand, a good assortment of
family groceries and country produce. 38Iy
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A. J. hamilton.
KSLRH HKNDRKE.
TOOISEYV&COUNSELOHS AT LAW,
Sl Hendree,
A TTORNEYS St COUNSEL
A AUSTIN, Texas
Will practice in the District and Stfprem*
Courts ol the State, arid the United States Ois-
¿riet Oeurt nSÜrí-ty.
Geo. S. Menefee,
RECEIVING. FORWARDINC ano COM-
mission Merchants,
Indi ano I a, Tex as,
Kefer to Messrs. Lewis & Groesbeck, Enoch
Jones Sl Co., Paschal & Richardson, A. A.
Lock wood, Messrs. J Y. Dashiel, Pay Master,
U. S. A., L. G. Capers, San Antonio; Maj. E.
B. Babbitt, Quartermaster, U. S. A, Jacob
Maas, Aug. Fromme, Indianola; Hamilton &
Hancoek. Austin : Messrs. J. B. Groves dc. Son,
Oswald. Wickham, New Orleans. 32-ly
¿^"Austin State Gazette an¿ Si Tf- '
t^, at Au&jih", please insert one ye^r, aúa for-
ward account to Indianola.
John Henry Brown,
INDIANOLA, TEXAS,
NOTARY PUBLIC FOR Calhoun County,
and COMMISSIONER of DEEDS
For New York. Pennsylvania,Ohio, Con-
necticut, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa,
Tennessee. Indiana, Alabama,Lou-
isiana, South Carolina, Miss-
issippi, Virginia and Maine.
DOCUMENTS ol all kinds acknowledged
before him can be recorded or used as evi-
dence in the above States; or if acknowledged
before a Chief Justice, County Clerk, Notary
Public, District or Supreme Judge, and the offi-
cial character of sueh officer certified toby the
undersigned, it will be equally good. Bonds,
Deeds, Mortgages, Wills, Protests, Agreement:,
and all legal instruments drawn and authentica-
ted at the shortest notice.
Fee for Commissioner's certificate in all cases
Two Dollars. Letters must be postpaid.
Indianola, Jul v 1851- v2n8yl.
Fulton & Hensley,
I ¡FORWARDING AND COMMSSION
MERCHANTS,
Corner of Austin & Commerce Streets,
—PORT LAVACA, TEXAS.—
May 23. 1850. l—tf
J. T. Lytic,
Attorney at Lata, and Commissioner of
Deeds for the State of Louisiana.
PORT LAVACA. TEXAS: 18-1 v
Wm. H. Ker,
Commission and Forivurding Merchant,
tort lavaca, texas.
WILL attend promptly to the purchase, sale,
receiving and forwarding ol goods. 28-Iy
R. M. Forbes & Co.,
Commission Foncarding Merchants,
PORT LAVACA, TEXAS.
Wholesale and retail dealers in staple and fancy
Dry Goods, Shoes, Hats. Clothing, Groceries,
II rines and Liquors. 28-1 y
D
It. J. Clow, Merchant,
Port Lavaca. Texas,
EALER IN DRY GOODS, GROCERIES,
Hardware, Wooden Ware, Willow Ware
BY AUTHORITY.
Laws of the United States
Passed during the First Session of the Thirty-first
Congress.
[Public Act—No. 33.J
AN ACT to supply deficiencies in the ap-
propriations fur the services of the fiscal
year ending the thirtieth of Jane, one
thousand eight Lundred and fifty-two.
Be ü enacted, by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
of America in Congress assembled, That
the following sums be, and the Batne are
heroby, appropriated to supply deficiencies
in the appropriations for the service of the
fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June,
eighteen hundred and fifty-Jtwo, out of any
money in the XrR:l*w-ry not*Vthorwiso ap- Trom the poiui
and Fanoy a«-*;
v;asn Advances made on Cotton.
32
1.. SUERWOOD.
WM. H. GODDAUD
Sherwood & Goddard,
Attorneys and Counselors at Law,
Galvcstou, Texas.
WILL do business in the District Courts and
Supreme Court ol" this State, and in the
United Slates District Cour; of Texas, and in
the Supreme Court of the United Stntes. 43
R. D. Johnson,
COMMISSIONER OF DEEDS for every
State in the Union,
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
DEEDS. MORTGAGES, POWERS OF
A TTORNEY, and other Instruments of Writ-
ing drawn and authenticated for use or record
in any part of the United States.
^Instruments acknowledged before a Nota-
ry or other competent officer, in any County in
the Stale of Texas, and certified to by me as
Commissioner, can be used or recorded in any
State of the Union. Documents forwarded to
me through the mails, will meet with prompt
attention. 32-ly
II. N. & M. N, Potter,
Attorneys and Counselors at Law,
GALVESTON,
WILL practice in the Supreme Court « nd
Federal Courts of Texas, and a'^o in the
First and adjoiuing Judicial Districts of the
Slate. 32-ly
J. P. Davie,
Importer of Building and Plantation
Hardtrare, Cooking and Parlor Stoves,
And Manufacturer ot all kinds of
COPPER, TIN AND SHEET IRON WARE,
at Wholesale,
Tremont Street, Galveston.
New Steam, Copper and Sheet Iron
Work and Repairing, done to order. 32
C. L. Creigh,
Attorney & counselor at law,
segu1n, Tex%s.
Will attend promptly to all business entrusted to
his care in the 2d Judicial District. 42-ly
Trevanion T. Teel,
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
LOCKHART—Caldwell co., Texas.
Will give his prompt allention to all business
entrusted to his care in the second Judicial Dis-
írict. n241y
Richard M. Shinn,
Attorey & counselor-at-law,
LOCHART,
51-Iy Caldwell Co., Texas.
C. C. McGinn is,
A TTORNEY & COUNSELOR AT LAW,
J\ BASTROP, Texas,
will attend to all business entrusted to his
charge in the Courts of the Second Judicial
District, and in the Supreme Court at Austin.
June 24, 1852. 5-ly
J. A. Foage,
TTORNEY & COUNSELOR AT LAW,
BASTROP, Texas,
will attend to all business entrusted to bis charge
in the courts of the Second Judicial District, and
jn the Supreme Court at Austin. 5-1 v
A
C. Y. HUTCHINSON,
Attorney and Counselor at Laif,
columbus, colorado co., texas.
32-ly .
A. O. Cooley,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
and
dGNERAL LAND AGENT,
Fredericksburg, Texas.
. references:
Son. E, Jones, Seguin,
Maj. M. trsfcme, " .
Jao. Twdirtg,,£sq., San Antonio,
fi. M. Lewis, E"
£ £>. fcane & Co., Fredericksburg. 14 Iv
propriated, namely:
For the amount required to pay reserv-
ed per centage under the contract for the
floating dock at Philadelphia, five thous-
and nine hundred and thirty-three dollars
and sixty-eight cents.
For the amount required to pay for
dredging the river in front ot the dock
basin at the Philadelphia navy yard,
twelve thousand dollars.
For the amount required to pay out-
standing liabilities for labor and materials
expended on dry dock, iron gates, pumps,
engine house, etc., at Brooklyn, eighty-
eight thousand three hundred and six dol-
lars and ninety-five cents.
For the ¿mount required to pay for re-
servations under the contract for engine,
etc., for the dry dock at Brooklyn, seven
thousand dollars.
For completing the floating dry dock at
San Francisco, California, authorized by
act of third of March, eighteen hundred
and fifty-one, three huudred and sixty
thousand dollars; and said dock may be
used for the purpose of repairing merchant
ships, when not in use by the Government,
in such manner, for such compensation,
and upon such terms and conditions as
shall be prescribed by the Secretary of
the Navy.
For compensation to temporary clerks
in the office of the Third Auditor of the
Treasury employed in making out certifi
cates of service from the muster rolls of
one thousand eight hundred and twelve,
and the several Indian wars, eleven thous-
and eight hundred dollars; which sum
shitil be distributed among the clerks ac-
cording to the discretion of the Secretary
of the Treasury: Provided, That no sala-
ry from this fund shall exeebd one thous-
and dollars per annum, except two, who
shall receive twelve hundred dollars per
annum.
For the contingent expenses of the office
of the Third Auditor, to nay f«->r p p-*
ing books of transfers* from the Quarter-
master General's office,two hundred doHars.
For compensation to extra clerks em-
ployed temporarily in the office o( the Au-
ditor of the Postoffice Department, four
thousand dollars.
For pasting in books prepared for the
purpose, canceled certificates of the regis-
try arid enrolments of vessels returned by
the several collectors of the customs, five
hundred dollars.
For annuities and grants, seven hundred
and fifty dollars.
For the rugular supply of the Quarter-
master's Department, consisting of forage
in kind for the horses, mules and oxen of
the Quartermaster's .Department, at the
several military pests and stations and
with the armies i-* the field; for the horses
of the first an¿ second regiments of dra-
goons, the companies of light artillery, the
regiment oi mounted riflemen, and such
compapíes of infantry as may be mounted,
and also for the authorized number of offi-
cers' horses when serving in the field and
at the outposts, seven hundred and ninety-
five thousand dollars.
For transportation of the army, includ-
ing the baggage of the troops, when mov-
ing either by land or water; of clothing,
camp and garrison equipage, and horse
equipment, from the depots at Philadel-
phia, St. Louis, and New Orleans, to the
several posts and army depots ; of subsis-
tence, from the places of purchase, from
the places of delivery under contract to
such places as the circumstances of the
service may require it to be sent; of ord-
dance, ordnance stores, and small arms,
from the foundries and armories to the
arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and
army depots, freights, tolls and ferriage;
for the purchase and hire of horses, mules,
oxen, wagons, carts, drays, ships and other
sea-going vessels and boats, for the trans-
portation of supplies, and foi garrison pui-
poses; for drayage and cartage at the sev-
eral posts; hire of teamsters, transporta-
tion of funds for the pay and other disbud
sing departments; the expense of sailing
public transports on the various rivers,
the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and
Pacific; and for procuring water from such*
posts as, from their situation, réquire that
it be brought from a distance, eight hund-
red and ninety thousand dollars.
For the purchase of horses required for
the first and second regiments of dragoons,
the companies of light artillery, the regi-
ment of mounted riflemen, and such com
panies of infantry as may be mounted,
forty thousand dollars.
For constructing, repairing and enlarg-
ing barracks, quarters, hospitals, store-
houses, stables, wharves, and ways, at the
several posts and army depots ; for tem-
porary cantonments, and the authorized
furniture for barrack room of non-com-
missioned officers and soldi^t3, gun-houses
for the protection of cannon, including the
necessary tools and materials for the ob-
jects enumerated, and for rent of quarters
and offices for officers, and barracks and
hospitals for troops, where there are no
public buildings for their accommodation ;
for store houses for the safe keeping of
military stores, and Of grounds for sum
mer cantonments and encampments, two
hundred and nineteen thousand dollars
for clothing, camp and garrison equip-
age, and horse equipaénts, for engineer
troops, ordnance cbpgrtment, dragoons,
riflemen, light artillero and infantry,
seventy-five thousand-debars.
For subsistence in kiFi, two hundred
and seventy-nine tbou'asJ& five hundred
and seventeen dollars.^^
F<mt pay of five colóle Ues of Texas
mounted volunteers, {igl P>housand seven
hundred and forty-one^*16 ts.
For running and mar 0 * ¡the boundary
line betwecnatíthe Uuite^. ^ ítés-and Mexi-
co nccordiójfro the treSec'
Hidalgo, eighty thousjyt^
ed, That nothing Ji^fbN q
so constructed -«¿Respectfully
iP
rs: Provxd-
ined shall be
a oeparttfffc
;t]i AoiQ*^rande north
¡?ítVo,'designated in the
of the town called
said treaty.
For surveying eight hundred and sevetf-
ty-five miles of meridian base and standard
lines meandering and survey of irregular
or river lots, etc , in California, at a rate
not exceeding fifteen dollars per mile,
thirteen thousand one hundred and twenty-
five dollars.
For subdividing land in California into
townships, equal to nine huudred miles of
survey, at a rate net exceeding fourteen
dollars per mile, twelve thousand dollars.
For subdividing fifty townships in Cali-
fornia into sectious. at a rate not exceed-
ing twelve dollars per mile, thirty-six
thousand dollars.
For surveying private claims in Cali-
fornia, seven thousand five hundred dollars
For compensation of the surveyor gen-
eral of Arkansas, per act of August eighth,
eighteen hundred and forty-six, two thous-
and dollars.
For clerks in the office of the surveyor
general of Arkansas, per act of August
eighth, eighteen hundred and forty six,
six thousand three hundred dollars.
For surveys in tho mineral region of
Michigan, at a rate not exceeding six dol-
lars per mile, twenty-four thousand seven
hundred and eighty dollars.
For completing the survey ef the salea-
ble lands in the Menomonee cession, and
the survey of the Lake Superior region,
Wisconsin, at a rite not exceeding five
dollars per mile, twenty thousand dollars.
For the completion of the township lines,
and the subdivisions of such of the town-
ships as bear valuable pine timber, west of
the fourth principal meridian, and between
the third and fourth connexion parallels,
afc a rate not exceeding five dollars per
mile, thirty-three thousand dollars.
For annual repairs of the President's
house, six hundred dollars.
For filling up and grading etc., Franklin
<v->.« «j u uerred' — j - - —
ninety-nine cents.
To make the roads and walks, and to
plant Lafayette square, two thousand dol-
lars.
To complete the improvements on the
square south of the President's house,
twelve thousand dollars: Provided, That
the grounds can be filled up and the sur-
face completed for the sum herein appro-
priated, and a contract for the completion
of the work, with good security, be tender-
ed and accepted at a sum not exceeding
this amount.
To supply the deficiency in the appro-
priation for the casual repairs of tho Capi-
tol, one thousand five hundred dollars
For completing the improvements of
New Jersry Avenue north of the Capitol,
nine thousand dollars
For planting iinu finishing the roads and
walk; through that portion of the public
mall surrounding the Smithsonian Institu-
tion, seven thousand dollars.
For payment to Augustus Humbert of
balance of his salary as United States as-
sayer of gold in California, under the act
of thirteenth of,September, eighteen bund-
red and fifty, twelve hundred and fifty
dollars.
For compensation of extra clerks em-
ployed in the office of the Commissioner
of Pensions, twenty thousand dollars:
Provided, That no clerk shall receive
more than at the rate of one thousand dol-
lars per aunum, except two, whose salary
shall not exceed twelve hundred dollars
per annum, under this act.
For expenses of establishing the super-
intendency of Indian Affairs in California,
authorized by the act of third March,
eighteen hundred and fifty-two, viz :
For salary of superintendent, one thous-
and three hundred and eighteen dollars
and sixty-eight cents.
For presents afod provisions for Indiana
¡siting oupci iuieudeut on official business,
one thousand dollars.
For traveling expenses of sfuperinten
dent and the necessary attendants, two
thousand five hundred dollars.
For payment to the American party of
St. Regis Indians, (less the sum of one
thousand dollars appropriated by the act
of twenty-seventh of June, eighteen hund-
red ané forty-six, in pursuance of the stipu-
lation contained in the supplemental arti-
cle.) as a remuneration for moneys laid
out by said tribe, and for services render-
ed bp their chiefs and agents, in securing
the title to the Green Bay lands, and in re ,
moval to the same, agreeably to the pro-
visions of the ninth article of the treaty
with the Six Nations of New York, of fif-
teenth of January, eighteen hundred aiyl
thirty-eight, four thousand dollars.
For payment to the Seneca Indians, of
New York, for moneys wrongfully with-
holden from then by an agent appointed
by the Government for the management
of their affairs, as per report of Thos. B.
Stoddard, commissioner selected by the
Secretary of War to make ihe requisite
investigation pursuant to the direction con-
tained in the fourth section of the act of
twenty-seventh June, eighteen hundred
and forty-six, making appropriations for
the Indian Department, twenty-eight
thousand five hundred and five dollars and
fifty cents: Provided, 'That the Secretary
of the Interior is hereby required, upon
payment o£ tlte money herein specified, to
take Such further steps, if any may be ne-
cessary, as shall enable the United States
to recover the amount due from said agent
For the re-appropriation of the follow-
ing sums carried to the surplus fund per
warrants numbered twelve and thirteen,
and dated respectively, thirtieth of June,
eighteen hundred and forty-six, and thir-
tieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-
eight, under the following heads, viz:
" For carrying into effect the Choctaw
treaty," aet eleventh of June, eighteen
hundred and forty-two. ninety-five dollars
and eighty-three cents.
t -F or cárryinginto ene ct caioexaw treaty,
on account of lands relinquished," act se
cond of March,eighteen hundred and thirty-
one, eight hundred and twenty-six dollars
and twenty-six cents.
" For payment to Pottawatomies for corn
crop abandoned," act third of March, eigh-
teen hundred and thirty-nine, seven huud-
red and forty-two dollars and fifty cents.
"For payment to Pottawatomies for
twelve log houses destroyed," act third of
March, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine,
six hundred dollars.
For interest on the amounts awarded Choctaw
claimants, under the fourteenth article ot the
treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, of twenty-
seventh of September, eighteen hundred and
thirty, for lands on which they resided, but
which it is impossible to give them, and in lieu
of the scrip that has been awarded under the act
-of twenty-third of August, eighteen hundred and
forty-two, not deliverable east, by the third sec-
tion of said law. per act of third March, eigh-
teen hundred and iorty-five, for the half year end-
ing thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and
fifty-two, twenty-one thousand eight hundred
dollars: Provided, That after the thirtieth day
of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, all pay-
ments of interest on said awards shall cease,
and that the Secretary of the Interior be, and he
is hereby directed to pay said claimants the
amount of principal awarded in each case res-
pectively, and that the amount necessary for this
purpose be and the same is hereby appropriated,
not exceeding eight hundred and seventy-two
thousand dollars: Provided, further, That the
final payment and satisfaction of said awards
shall be first ratified and approved as a final re-
lease of all claims of such parties, under the
fourteenth article of said treaty, by the proper
national authority of the Choctaws, in such
form as shall be prescribed by the Secretary ol
the Interior.
For the purchase of presents, and to negotiate
under instructions from the Secretary of the In-
dians in Texas who have intruded themselves
into that State from the territories of the United
States, for their removal from that State, twenty-
five thousand dollars.
For continuing the collection and for publish-
ing the statistics and other information authoriz-
ed by the act of third of March, eighteen hund-
red and forty-seven, and subsequent acts, seven-
teen thousand dollars: Provided, That the work
shall be completed in five volumes, and that at
least one vohime shall be published ill each year
until ik~ «f atc volumes snallEe
fiiaichod.
For arrearages in the cost of the preparation
of the volume, tor the year eighteen hundred
and fifty-one, of statistics and other information
authorized by the act of the third of March,
eighteen hundred and iorty seven, and subse-
quent acts, five thousand three hundred dollars.
For printing, binding, etc., six hundred copies
of the first, volume of the foregoing work, for
distribution among new members, six thousand
five hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For this sum, to enable the Secretary of the
Interior to satisfy the claims of the Creek In-
dians for mills stipulated to be furnished under
the filth article of the treaty of the fourteenth oí
February .eighteen hundred and thirty-three,four
thousand dollars.
For expenses of removal and subbtetence of
Pottawatomies of Indiana, ($-22,500,) twenty-
two thousand five hundred dollars.
For expenses oí removal and subsistence of
Choctaws, ($50,000,) fifty thousand dollars.
For expenses of removal and subsistence of
Winnebagoes, three thousand five hundred and
thirteen dollars and two cents.
For this sum to cover arrearages for and on
account of contingencies of the Indian Depart-
ment, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars.
For indemnity lor losses sustained by the Me-
nomonee Indians in the delivery of goods to
them, as a part of their annuity, in the year
eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, per seventh
article of the treaty with that tribe of the eigh-
teenth of October, eighteen hundred and forty-
eight.three thousand six hundredandtwenty-four
dollars and forty-eight cents.
For payment of services of blacksmiths and
for the use of tools for the Seneca tribes of In-
dians, from the first of July to the eighth of No-
vember, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, ttro
hundred and thirteen dollars and thirty-three
cents.
Fer clerk hire, office rent, fuel, stationery, etc.,
for the Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Ore-
gon, two thousand four hundred dollars.
For expenses of continuing negotiations with
the Indian tribes of Oregon lying west of the
Cascade Mountains, twelve thousand dollars.
For the completion of buildings for the use of
the Superintendent and Indian agents in Oregon,
tniee thousand dollars.
For traveling eipensesTSTt^e Superintendent
of Indian Affairs ia Oregda, and agen* I t n ;
thousand dollars.
For there-appropriation of this sum,(carried
to the surplus fund per warrant number thirteen,
dated thirtieth of June', eighteen hundred and
ítjrtv-six,) uemg^vue oaianceffue me Ottawa and
Chippewa Indians, under the fifth article of the
treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty-six, for
payment of their debts, appropriated the second
of July7"eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and
re-appropriated the second of March, eighteen
hundred and thirty-nine, six hundred and twenty-
four dollar and twenty-two cents.
For the purchase oi two sections of land re-
served by the treaty with the Pottawatomies of
October twentieth, eighteen hundred and thirty-
two, for "Shobonier," one thousand six hundred
dpllars: Provided, That said sum shall not be
paid until all the rights of "Shobonier," or his
heirs, to said land shall be relinquished to the
United States.
For the redemption of outstanding loan office
and final settlement certificate, dated September
ninth, seventeen hundred and seventy-nine,
countersigned by Nathaniel Appleton, Commis-
sioner of Massachusetts Bay, issued for two
hundred dollars, specie value, ten dollars and
sixty-eight ninetieths, fifty-seven dollars and
seventy-two cents.
For the contingent expenses of the Legislative
Assembly of the Territory of Minnesota, Viz :
ing tneir publication
red dollars.
For necessary extra clerks during the latter
part of the session of the Legislative Assembly,
binding the Revised Statutes, and other neces-
sary incidental expenses, two thousand dollars.
For payment of Messrs- Bibcock, Wilkinson,
and Holcombe, for reyising the laws, five hundr
red dollars each, one thousand five hundred
dollars. , f
For the contingent expenses of the House ol
Representatives, seventy-five thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses of the Senate, one
hundred and thirty-seven thousand seven hand
red and seventy-five dollars.
To enablethe Secretary of the Senate to pay
Ibr the copies of the report of Doctor Davtd Dale
Owen, United States Geologist, on the Geology
of Iowa and Wisconsin, and Minnesota Terri-
tory, heretofore ordered to be executed for the use
of tne Senate, under the special direction of the
Commissioner of the General Land Office,
thirty-one thousand two hundred and eighteen
dollars and seventy-five cents: Provided, That
no more than fiftv cents a copv shall be oaid lor
the binding of the book.
To enable the Clerk of the House of Repre-
sentatives to pay for three thousand five hund-
red copies of the report of Doctor David Dale
Owen, on the geology of Iowa and Wisconsin,
and Minnesota Territory, ordered by a resolu-
tion of the House of Representatives, to be ex-
ecuted under the special direction of the Com-
missioner of the General Land Office, sixteen
íWifire'Ei.'Hta
fifty cents a copy shall be paid for the binding of
the book.
For contingent expenses of the library of
Congress, eight hundred dollars.
To enablethe Secretary of State to purchase
one hundred complete sets of Little St Brown's
edition of the Statutes at Large, from volume
one to volume nine, inclusive, for distribution to
such new officers as would have been entitled to
receive them under the act of the eighth of Au-
gust, eighteen hundred and forty-six, and joint
resolution of the eighth of August, eighteen
hundred and forty-eight, three thousand one
hundred and fifty dollars.
For payment of the second and third volumes
of the fifth series of the Documentary History,
under contract with the Secretary of State, in ad-
dition to the balance of the appropriation of thir-
ty-five thousand dollars, per act of the thirtieth
of September, eighteen hundredand fifty, eleven
thousand two hundred and ninety-four "dollars.
For the payment of James W. Hale, ot the
city of New York, in full for discharging the
duties of dispatch agent from September, eigh-
teen hundred and forty-nine, to June, eighteen
hundred and fifty, inclusive, the sum of six
hundred dollars.
To cover the balance of compensation due to
the United States Geologists for the Lake Supe- <
rior region, and for Wisconsin, Iowa, and Min-
nesota, and to their respective assistants, inclu-
ding.the cost ol superintending the printing of
their final geological reports, five thousand nine
hundred and fiity-two dollars: Provided, That
there shall be no further geological survey Dy
the Government, unless hereafter authorized by
law.
For compensation of superintendent and four
watchmen for that portion of the Patent Office
building which will be occupied by the Secreta-
ry of the interior, five hundred and sixty-two
dollars and fifty cents.
For outfits of Charges d'Affaires to Denmark
and Bolivia, nine thousand dollars.
To enablethe Secretary of State to pay Wil-
liam E. Anderson for the loss of time and expense
incurred in coming from Rio de Janeiro to New
York, under the direction of the American Min-
ister at the Brazilian court, to testify against
certain persons alleged to have been engaged
in the slave trade, two hundred and fifty dollars.
To supply the deficiency in the appropriation
for the relief of American citizens lately impri-
soned and pardoned by the Queeu of Spain,three
thousand dollars.
For compiling, printing and binding the Bien-
nal Register for eighteen hundred and fifty-one,
in addition to the amount appropriated peMct of
lUiTd or i Iarci>, eighteen hundred aud fifty-one.
two thousand two hunUrcü and fifty-three dol-
lars.
For the trial and maintenance of the light at
Waugasham, Michigan, one thousand dollars.
For expenses incurred in bringing gas pipes
and fixtures into and around the northeast Exe-
cutive building, four hundred dollars.
For purchasing, walling, and ditching a piece
of land near the city of Mexico, lor a cemetery
or burial ground for such of the officers and
soldiers of our army, in our late war with Mexi-
co, as fell in battle, or died in and around said
city, and /or the interment of American citizens
who have died or may diein said city, one thous-
and four hundred and eighty dollars and thirty
four cents; and also a sum not exceeding ten
thousand seven hundred and thirty-four dollars
and six y-five cents, is hereby appropriated to
pay Adam Boyd Hamilton, according to con-
tract for printing twenty thousand and binding
eighteen thousand six hundred and ten copies, of
three hundred and ninety-six pages each, of the
Re gister's report of the commerce and naviga-
tion ol' the United States, for eighteen hundred
and fifty-one.
F'or additional compensation for increasing
the transportation of the United States mail be-
tween New York and Liverpool, in the Collin*
line of staamers, to twenty-six trips per annum,
at such time as shall be directed by the Postmas-
ter General, and in conformity to his last annual
report to Congress, and his letter of the fifteenth
of November last to the Secretary of the Navy,
commencing said increased service on the first
of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, at
the rate of thirty-three thousand dollars per trip,
in lieu of the present allowance, the sum of two
hundred and thirty-six thousand five hundred
dollars. Provided, That it shall be in the power
of Congress at any time after the thirty-first day
December, eighteen hundred and iiilty-ftur, to
terminate the arrangement for the additional al-
lowance herein provided for, upon giving six
months' notice.
For defraying the expenses of the Supreme,
Circuit and District Courts of the United States,
including the District of Columbia; also for
jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising
from fines, penalties and forfeitures incurred in
the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen
hundred aod fifty-two. and previous years, and
likewise for defraying the expenses of suits in
which the United States are concerned, and of
UniVe^Sta^^
keeping of prisoners, in addition to former ap-
propriations, ninety thousand dollars: Provided,
That no officer of the United States who is in
attendance upon any court of the United States,
in the discharge of the duties of said office,shall
receive any pay or compensation for his atten-
dance as a witness on behalf oí the Government
at the same time that he receives compensation
as such officer.
To enable the Secretary of the interior to pay
to the clerks employed in the Census Office on
extra duty, at thb rate of one hundred dollars
for full service, according to the office roll, the
sum often thousand five hundred dollars.
For determining, running and m.irking the
the northern boundary ot the State of Iowa, on
the parallel of forty-three degrees thirty minuie*
north latitude, in addition to the appropriation
heretofore made lor the same object,fifteen thous-
and dollars. .
For the reconstruction or repairs of the steam-
er Bibb, used in the survey of the Nantucket
shoals, eighteen thousand dollars.
Foi establishing a depot of coal for naval pur
poses at Key West, in the State of Florida,
twenty thousand dollars. _
For the purchase of a site on which to erect a
custom-house in Bangor, Maine, fifteen thouand
dollars. _ ....
For the purchase of a site on which to erect a
customhouse in Bath, Maine, eleven thousand
For the completion of the customhouse at
Mobile, Alabama, one hundred thousand dol-
lars ' and for the completion of the customhouse
at Louisville, Kentucky, the additional sum of
sixteen thousand dolíais.
For the completion of the customhouse at Cin-
cinnati, fifty thousand dollars,
For the completion of the customhouse and
other public offices connected therewith, at
Pittsburgh, thirty-five thousand dollars.
For the completion of the fire-proof building
in the city Of St. Louis, Missouri, for a custom-
house and indepenftnt treasury building and
offices of the United States, thirty-seven thous-
and dollars.
For completing the customhouse at Norfolk,
Virginia, fifty thousand dollars.
For arrears"of contingent expenses in the Post-
office Department, seven thousand five hundred
dollars.
For compensation to temporary clerks em-
ployed conditionally to bring up arrears of bnsi-
nesa in the dead-letter office, one thousand dol-
lars and sixty-seven cents.
For fuel for the General Postoffi«e building
from the twentieth of February, eighteen hund-
red and fifty-two, to the end of the season, seven
hundredand fifty dollars.
For the payment of salaries of the special
agents of the Postoffice Department to the end
of the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June,
eighteen hundrd and üfty-two, «deven thousand
fi^&"^rftíént1fótlié Iollotkii)g4i3me3 tribes of
Indians of the undermentioned sums due them,
retained by the late Sub-Indian Agent, William
H. Bruce, the same to be reimbursed to the
United States when recqpered from said sub-
agent or his sureties,, viz:
To Menomonces, nine thousand four hundred
and sixty-six dollars and tw my-seVen cents.
To Chippewas, Menoinouees, Winnebagoes,
and New Vorlc Indians,five hundred and twenty-
one dollars and fifty-niue cents.
To Six Nations of New York (Stockbridge),
twenty-two dollars arid fifty cents.
To Stockbridg , one thousand eight hundred
and six dollars.
For expenses of treaty with the Mississippi
and Saint Peter's Sioux for the extinguishment
of their litle to lands in Minnesota Territory,
¿ ing in addition to the appropriation for the
same object made thirtieth September, eighteen
hundred and fifty, four thousand two hundred
and seventy-two dollars and thirty-eight cents.
For expenses of treating with the Indians aud
half-breeds for the extinguishment ofthe title to
their lands on the Red River of the North, in
the Territory of Minnesota, being in addition
to the appropriation lor the same object, made
thirtieth September, eighteen hundred and fifty,
nine hundred aud one dollars and five cents.
For fulfilling treaties with the Winnebagoes,
viz: purchase of tobacco, per sccond article of
treaty of first August, eighteen hundred and
twenty-nine,and filth article of treaty of fifteenth,
September, eighteen hundred and thirty-two,
three hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For iulfilling treaties with Ottowas and Chip-
pewas, viz: purchase of tobacco, per fourth ar-
ticle of treaty of twenty-eighth March,eighteen
hundred and thirty-six, three hundred dollar:-.
For fulfilling treaties with the Sacs and Foxes
of the Mississippi, viz: purchase of tobacco,
per fourth articl^ of treaty of the twenty-first
September, eighteen hundred and tliirty-two,
two hundred dollars.
For fulfilling treaties with the Menomonees,
viz: purchase of tobacco, per second article ot
treaty ot third September, one thousand eight
hundredand thirty-six, one hundred dollars.
For the payment of annuities (and the trans-
portation of the same) to certain tribes of In-
dians, in accordance with the seventh article of
the treaty made at Fort Laramie, on the seven-
teenth day of September, Anno Domini, eigh-
teen hundred and fifty-one, sixty thousand dol-
lars:
And the Secretary of the Interior is hereby
authorized to purchase the provisions, merchan-
dise, domestic animals and agricultural imple-
ment, UH e delivered in pa^nttent of the annuity
first payablf tinder th« seventh article of said
treaty, without previous advertisement, if such
purchases can be so made on reasonable terms, -j
Skc. 2. And be it further enacted. That there l>e
appropriated, out of any money in the treasury
not. otherwise appropriated, a sum sufficient to
enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay for
printing lour hundred and fifty copies of the esti-
mates of appropriations for'the service of the
fiscal year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-
three. at the rate paid by him for the printing of
the Treasury Department by contract, under the
provisions of the seventeenth section of the act
oí the twenty-sixth August, one thousand eight
hunured and forty-two.
Sec. 3. And be it further enactcd, That no part
of the appropriations herein made for the bene-
fit of any tribe or part of a tribe of Indians,
shall be paid to any attorney or agent of such
tribe or part of a tribe; but shall, in every c?se,
be paid directly to the Indians themselves, to
whom it shall be due, or to the tribe or part of a
tribe, per capita, unless the imperious interest
of the Indians shall require the payment to be
made collectively. Nor shall the Executive
branch of the Government hereafter recognise
any contract between any tribe or part of a tribe
and any attorney or agent, for the prosecution
of any claim against the Government under this
act.
Skc. 4. Andbe it further cnactcd, That no esti-
mate or appropriation of money, in any bill
making appropriations, shall authorize the pay-
ment of any increased pay, allowance, or com-
pensation, in any lbiui whatever beyond the
amount prescribed by law, in any case, unless
there shall first te a specific direi tion for such
extra payment, designating the officers to whom
such extra payment shall be made.
Skc. 5. And be it Jurlher enaclcd, That the
Commissioner of Public Building be, and he i*
hereby authorized to apply any unexpended poi-
t ion of t he money appropriated by the act of
Congress entitled "An act making appropria-
tion to meet the expenses incurred inconse-
quence of the late fire at the Capitol," approved
January thirteenth eighteen hundred and f«<rty-
two to the payment of expenses necessarily in-
curred i j repairing the damage lately done by fire
in the office of the clerk of the Supreme Court,
and in making other repairs about the Capitol.
Sec. G. And be itfurtner enactcd, That the Se-
cretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby au-
thorized to purchase for the United States a suit-
able piece of ground at a central point in the
i lio fii-'^nciscíu Cali foriiia, as a site for
thorized to be built: Provide, That saifrsfur Oi
ground mav be obtained whhgood and sufficient
title to the United Slates in exchange for such
reasonable portion of the Government reserve
in that city as the said Secretary shall deem just
and equitable, or for a sum in lieu thereof nut
exceeding forty thousand dollars; and to enable
the Secretary of the Treasury to carry into effect
this provision, the sum of forty thou«and dollars
is hereby appropriated: Provided, That if tho
said Secretary shall fail to obtain such ground
on satisfactory terms, then the said sum,or such
portion thereof as may be neecssary, may be ex-
pended in providing the proper foundations for
said customhouse on the siv heretofore selcctci
for the purpose.
(Signed) LINN BOYD, *
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
(Signed) WILLIAM R. KING,
President of the Senate pro tempore.
Approved J une 15. 1852.
(Signed) MILLARD FILLMOP. E.
How to make Hens Lay.—Tie a stout
striDg round their body, and lay the bird
upon its side upon a board, and fasten the
string underneath, You can then put a
pillow under its head if you wish. Hens
secured in this manner will lay for any de-
sired length of time.
"A man can't help what is done behind
his back," as the loafer said when he was
kicked out of doors.
"Madame de Genlis," says somebody,
reproved her librarian for putting books
written by male and female authors upon
the same shelf. "Never éo il," said she,
«'without placing a prayer bopje between
them.".
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