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to be closed by transferring from the appropriation therein made for “defraying the expenses of treating with the Indians,” to the appropriation for “making the road from the western frontier of Missouri to the confined of New Mexico,” such amount, as may be necessary for this purpose.

. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby authorized to allow and pay to David Brearly, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the amount charged to his account and accounted for by him on a draft drawn by him on the War Department, on the twenty-sixth January, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, for the sum of two thousand three hundred and twenty-seven dollars and twelve cents, for provisions purchased for and applied to the use of certain emigrating Creek Indians.

. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be and he is hereby authorized and directed to invest, in a manner which shall be, in his judgment, most safe and beneficial for the fund, the sum of thirty-three thousand nine hundred and twelve dollars and forty cents, being money in the Treasury as the proceeds of lands purchased from the Seneca Indians of Sandusky by a treaty concluded on the twenty-eighth of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, from the Senecas and Shawanese by a treaty concluded on the twentieth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and from the Shawanese, by a treaty concluded on the eighth of August, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and upon which sum the United States are, by stipulations in the said treaties, bound to pay to the said Indians an annual interest at the rate of five per centum per annum; Provided, That the said Secretary shall make no investment of the said sum, or any portion of it, at a lower rate of interest than five per centum per annum.

. And be it further enacted, That it shall be competent for the President to assign to the Indian Agent at Michilimackinac, in addition to his proper duties, the duties of Superintendent of Indian Affairs for all that district of country heretofore constituting the Territory of Michigan and lying east of the line established as the eastern boundary of the Territory of Wisconsin, by the ; Provided, however, That no additional compensation or emoluments shall be granted on account of the said duties; and the President may require the said agent to reside at such place as he may think fit, within the said district.

, June 14, 1836.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of forty-five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, from any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, towards the purchase of a site and the building of an arsenal of deposite and general construction, near the town of Fayetteville, in the State of North Carolina.

, June 14, 1836.