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For presents to Indians, as authorized by, fifteen thousand dollars.

For houses for sub-agents, interpreters, and blacksmiths, at Peoria and Iowa sub-agencies; expenses of emigrating Indians; claims of Delawares, for horses taken by white men; holding councils for settlement of differences among Indian tribes, &c. within the superintendency of General Clark, as estimated for by him, fourteen thousand three hundred and twenty-four dollars.

For additional expense arising out of the recently extended intercourse with the Indians within the Michigan territory, and the establishment of a new sub-agency therein, for the Chippewas, high up Lake Superior, at La Point, or Michael’s Island, as recommended by Governor Cass, five thousand dollars.

For additional expense at the Red river agency, on account of the removal of the Quapaws, and attaching them to that agency, agreeably to the late treaty with them, one thousand three hundred dollars.

For expenses attending Indian agency established under the late treaty with the Creek nation, and an, four thousand five hundred dollars.

For aiding the emigration of the Creek Indians, providing for them for the period of twelve months after their emigration, and for rendering them such assistance as the President of the United States may think proper, in their agricultural operations, for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of the existing treaty with the Creek nation of Indians, having relation to the aforesaid objects, fifty thousand dollars.

And the sum of fifty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to enable the President of the United States to carry into effect the articles of agreement and cession, entered into on the twenty-fourth of April, one thousand eight hundred and two, between the United States and the state of Georgia, which sum of money, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be applied under the direction of the President of the United States, to the extinguishment of the claims of the Cherokee Indians, to all the lands which they occupy within the limits of said state.

For contingencies in the Indian department, ninety-five thousand dollars.

For refunding to the state of North Carolina the amount expended by her in extinguishing the title of certain Indians of the Cherokee tribe, to reservations of land within the limits of said state, granted to them in fee simple, by treaties with the United States, in the years one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, and one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, the sum of twenty-two thousand dollars.

. And be it further enacted, That the several sums hereby appropriated, be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

, April 28, 1828.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the assent of Congress to the constructing a railroad by a company incorporated by the legislature of Maryland, from Baltimore to the city of Washington, be and the same is hereby given to the extend that Congress has jurisdiction of the soil over which it may pass; conceding to said company to exact such tolls, and to enjoy such benefits and privileges, as the act of incorporation of the state of Maryland gives to said corporation within the limits of the state of Maryland: Provided, In the location of the road it shall not