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closing accounts, under the authority contained in the, eight hundred dollars.

For carrying into effect the Cherokee treaty of one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, being the amount of the fund appropriated in one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, lost in transportation by the explosion of the steamer Black Hawk, in December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, eight thousand six hundred and ten dollars.

For the removal of the Choctaws west of the Mississippi, and for their subsistence for one year, including contingent expenses connected therewith, one hundred and thirteen thousand five hundred and forty dollars.

To make good the interest on investments in State stocks and bonds, for various Indian tribes, not yet paid by the States, to be reimbursed out of the interest when collected, sixty-eight thousand four hundred and thirty-nine dollars and ninety-three cents.

For payment of the Bank of Michigan, or its assigns, for moneys advanced under authority of the Secretary of War, and Secretary of the Treasury, in fulfilment of a treaty with the Chippewas of Saginaw, of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, together with interest on the principal sum due said bank from the first day of February one thousand eight hundred and forty, at six per cent. per annum, twelve thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: Provided, That of the scrip which has been awarded, or which shall be awarded, to Choctaw Indians under the provisions of the, that portion thereof, not deliverable East, by the third section of said law, in these words “not more than one half of which shall be delivered to said Indian until after his removal to the Choctaw territory, west of the Mississippi river,” shall not be issued or delivered in the West, but the amounts awarded for land on which they resided, but which it is impossible for the United States now to give them, shall carry an interest of five per cent., which the United States will pay annually to the reservees under the treaty of one thousand eight hundred and thirty, respectively, or to their heirs and legal representatives, forever, estimating the land to which they may be entitled, at one dollars and twenty-five cents per acre: Provided, further, That so much of the law of twenty-third August, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, as is inconsistent herewith, is hereby repealed.

. And be it further enacted, That the sum of five thousand dollars, appropriated under the act entitled “,” and approved seventeenth June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, for payment to the Senecas of a permanent annuity, stipulated in the fourth article of the treaty of twenty-ninth September, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, four thousand five hundred dollars be carried to the surplus fund, being that amount appropriated more than was necessary to the fulfilment of the said treaty stipulation.

. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be directed to settle and pay the expenses incurred in the partition of the lands of the Stockbridge Indians under the, upon the same principle that the expenses of the partition of the lands of the Brotherton Indians were made under the , to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

, March 3, 1845.