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be, empowered to collect any other taxes; and to pay over said money, when so collected as aforesaid, to the treasury of the United States, in the manner, and within the times, prescribed by the acts to which this act is a supplement: and that, in default made by the said corporation, either in collecting or paying over as aforesaid, that then, and in such case, the President of the United States may proceed to exercise the powers reposed in, and conferred on, him, in and by the said fifth section.

. And be it further enacted, That the common council of Alexandria shall have power to appoint one or more inspectors of tobacco for the town of Alexandria; and the said inspectors shall take an oath before a justice of the peace of the county of Alexandria, or the mayor of the corporation, for the faithful discharge of the duties of office of inspector, a certificate of which he shall return to the clerk of the common council: And the said common council shall have power to pass all needful laws for the due and proper inspection of tobacco, and for regulating the conduct of the said inspectors; and the said common council shall have power to remove, for just cause, any inspector, and appoint another in his place.

. And be it further enacted, That this act shall commence and be in force from the passage thereof.

, May 25, 1832.

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 for the Indian department for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, viz:

For the pay of the superintendent of Indian affairs at St. Louis, and the several Indian agents, as established by law, including an agent for the Kansas, agreeably to a treaty with that tribe of June third, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, thirty-two thousand dollars.

For the pay of sub-agents, as established by law, nineteen thousand dollars.

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

For the pay of Indian interpreters and translators, employed in the several superintendencies and agencies, twenty-one thousand five hundred and twenty-five dollars

For the pay of gunsmiths and blacksmiths, and their assistants, employed within the several superintendencies and agencies, under treaty provisions and the orders of the War Department, eighteen thousand three hundred and forty dollars.

For iron, steel, coal, and other expenses attending the gunsmiths and blacksmiths’ shops, five thousand four hundred and twenty-six dollars.

For expense of transportation and distribution of Indian annuities, nine thousand nine hundred and fifty-nine dollars.

For expense of provisions for Indians at the distribution of annuities, while on visits of business, with the different superintendents and agents, and when assembled on public business, eleven thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars.

For expense of building houses for Indian agents, blacksmiths’ shops, and for repairs of the same, when required, in the several agencies, seven thousand dollars.

For contingencies of the Indian department, twenty thousand dollars: Provided, in no case shall any money hereby appropriated be used for the purpose of rewarding Indians for settling disputes among them.