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For expenses incurred by the marshal of the Michigan territory, and authorized by the War Department, in conducting the prosecution against the Winnebago Indians at Prairie du Chien, in one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, one thousand eight hundred dollars.

For contingencies of Indian department, twenty-two thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.

For expenses incurred by the exploring party of Indians under the control of Captain Kennerly, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, in addition to the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, heretofore appropriated, the sum of seven thousand one hundred and sixty-eight dollars and thirteen cents.

For the purpose of purchasing such reservations of land as are yet claimed by Indians, or Indian countrymen, within the limits of the state of North Carolina, by virtue of treaties made by the United States with the Cherokee Indians, the sum of twenty thousand dollars, which sum, or such part thereof as may be found necessary, shall be applied, under the directions of the President of the United States, to the purpose aforesaid, and to no other purpose whatever.

To enable the President of the United States to extinguish the title of the Delaware Indians to their reservations in Ohio, and to aid them in their removal west of the Mississippi, under the provisions of the treaty of St. Mary’s in eighteen hundred and eighteen, six thousand dollars.

For compensation to the Indians in Ohio, for depredations committed upon their property by white citizens, under the intercourse law, one thousand five hundred and thirty-nine dollars and twenty-five cents.

, March 2, 1829.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to subscribe for or purchase, in the name and for the use of the United States, any stock which may have been forfeited to the company, and which shall be undisposed of on the fourth day of March next, not exceeding thirteen hundred and fifty shares of the capital stock of the Louisville and Portland Canal Company; and to pay for the same, when called upon by said company, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, Said shares can be had for a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars each.

. And be it further enacted, That the said Secretary of the Treasury shall vote for president and directors of said company, according to such number of shares, and shall receive upon the said stock, the proportion of the tolls which shall, from time to time, be due to the United States for the stock aforesaid.

, March 2, 1829.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for defraying the expenses of the navy for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively