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 204 TWENTY-N IN TH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 67. 1847. of money or goods shall be deemed and held to be null and void, and of no binding effect whatsoever. One clerkship Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That from and after the thi;-. d‘“°“' tieth day of June next, one of the clerkships of a thousand dollars in $,,,,,.,,,5 ,,,-,,,0 the office of Indian affairs shall be discontinued, and that to the salary clerkships in- of chief clerk of said office there shall be added the sum of one hun. °’°"°d· dred dollars, and to one of the salaries of a thousand dollars the sum of two hundred dollars. $5000 mM_ Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That in aid of the means now p,,,,,;,, ,-0,. St,- possessed by the Department of Indian Affairs through 1tS existing ortisticul and hi¤— ganization, there be, and hereby is, appropriated the sum of five thou. "°"°°* °l’J°°°s" sand dollars, to enable the said department, under the direction of the igggh    Secretary of War, to collect and digest such statistics and materials '' as may illustrate the history, the present condition, and future prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States. Sec. 6. And be itfurt/ner enacted, That for the purchase of presents for the Camanche and other Indians of Texas and the southwestern prairies, promised them in eighteen hundred and forty-six, and Prg?2é°(£r°P£;; for the same object the present year, the sum of twenty thousand dolsanr, rr, ga,.,,,,,. lars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the che wd wher treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, That so much of this wud mms' amount, not exceeding one half; as may be found necessary on a Terry and Brqth- proper settlement of the account of Messrs. Terry and Brothers, be $3,:3 b,*?0,,"’$: paid to them for presents which they advanced in the year eighteen vances. hundred and forty-six, the War Department not having the authority to furnish them. foriggcggysgzm Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That for compensation of a ,,,,,1 ,,,,,0 ,,,,8,, special agent and two interpreters for one year, to enable the War preters. Department to keep up such a communication with the said Indians as may be necessary towards the preservation of a good understanding with them, and securing peace on the frontier, the sum of three thou- ' l sand six hundred and fifty dollars be, and the same is hereby, approto ;RP’°§::¤;,{j printed out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, ,-ec, urgaty wm, and that the sum of ten thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, Camanches. appropriated to carry into effect the treaty with the Camanche and other tribes of Indians. COE;;};;;?; ue; Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That'the sum of six thousand de, me C,,,,,°k“ dollars bc, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money m treaty. the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and placed at the discretion of the President to defray the expenses of the commission now sitting under the treaty between the United States and the Cherokee Indians of eighteen hundred and thirty-five and six. Approved, March 3, 1847. M“`°h 3; 1847- CHAP. LXVIL -—·.d1i dot giving the Consent of Congress to an Act of the General ji Assembly of Virginia authorizing the Levy of Tolls on the James River. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the g,_;;‘g‘:e‘;,fg°;: United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent .,,r°rr,,,gr,,],m,, of Congress be, and the same is hereby, given to an act passed by the
 * {°nY;8¤¤3: M}- General Assembly of the State of Virginia, on the fifth day of M816h,

M,,;,, g,,,·°§,°f,,; eighteen hundred and forty-six, entitled "An Act to incorporate H on the James Company to remove the Bars in James River between the City of B""' Richmond and Bermuda Hundred," and that the authority 88 ¤0¤· ferred by the said act on the company thereby created, to demand and receive the tolls therein specified on vessels navigating the said rivers