mules, or cattle, to range and feed on any land belonging conviction is had for such crime, offence, or misdemeanor, to any Indian or Indian tribe, without the consent of such the person so convicted shall be sentenced to pay to such tribe, such person shall forfeit the sum of one dollar for friendly Indian to whom the property may belong, or each animal of such stock. whose person may be injured, a sum equal to twice the SEC. 10. And be it further enacled, That the Superin- just value of the property so taken, injured, or destroy. tendent of Indian Affairs, and Indian agents, and sub-ed. And if such offender shall be unable to pay a sum agents, shall have authority to remove from the Indian at least equal to the just value or amount, whatever such country all persons found therein contrary to law; and the payment shall fall short of the same, shall be paid out of President of the United States is authorized to direct the the Treasury of the United States: Provided, That no such Indian shall be entitled to any payment out of the military force to be employed in such removal. Treasury of the United States, for any such property, if he, or any of the nation to which he belongs, shall have sought private revenge, or attempted to obtain satisfaction by any force or violence: And provided, also, That if such offender cannot be apprehended and brought to trial, the amount of such property shall be paid out of the Treasury, as aforesaid. SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall make a settlement on any lands belonging, secured, or granted by treaty with the United States, to any Indian tribe, or shall survey or shall attempt to survey such lands, or designate any of the boundaries by marking trees, or otherwise, such offender shall forfeit and pay the sum of one thousand dollars. And it shall, moreover, be lawful for the President of the United States to take such measures, and to employ such military force, as he may judge necessary to remove from the lands as aforesaid any such persons as aforesaid. SEC. 17. And be it further enacted, That if any Indian or Indians, belonging to any tribe in amity with the United States, shall, within the Indian country, take or destroy the property of any person lawfully within such country, SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That no purchase, or shall pass from the Indian country into any State or grant, lease, or other conveyance of lands, or of any title Territory inhabited by citizens of the United States, and or claim thereto, from any Indian nation or tribe of In-there take, steal, or destroy, any horses, or other prodians, shall be of any validity in law or equity, unless the perty, belonging to any citizen or inhabitant of the United same be made by treaty or convention entered into pur- States, such citizen or inhabitant, his representative, atsuant to the constitution. And if any person, not employ- torney, or agent, may make application to the proper ed under the authority of the United States, shall attempt superintendent, agent, or sub-agent, who, upon being to negotiate such treaty or convention, directly or indi- furnished with the necessary documents and proofs, shall, rectly, to treat with any such nation or tribe of Indians, under the direction of the President, make application to for the title or purchase of any lands by them held or the nation or tribe to which said Indian or Indians shall claimed, such person shall forfeit and pay one thousand belong, for satisfaction; and if such nation or tribe shall dollars: Provided, nevertheless, That it shall be lawful for neglect or refuse to make satisfaction, in a reasonable the agent or agents of any State who may be present at time, not exceeding twelve months, it shall be the duty any treaty held with Indians under the authority of the of such superintendent, agent, or sub-agent, to make United States, in the presence and with the approbation return of his doings to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, of the commissioner or commissioners of the United that such further steps may be taken as shall be proper, States appointed to hold the same, to propose to, and ad- in the opinion of the President, to obtain satisfaction for just with, the Indians, the compensation to be made for the injury; and in the mean time, in respect to the protheir claim to lands within such State which shall be ex-perty so taken, stolen, or destroyed, and the United tinguished by treaty. States guaranty, to the party so injured, an eventual inSEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That if any citizen demnification: Provided, That if such injured party, his or other person residing within the United States or the representative, attorney, or agent, shall, in any way, territory thereof, shall send any talk, speech, message, violate any of the provisions of this act, by seeking or or letter, to any Indian nation, tribe, chief, or individual, attempting to obtain private satisfaction or revenge, he with an intent to produce a contravention or infraction of shall forfeit all claim upon the United States for such any treaty or other law of the United States, or to disturb indemnification: And provided, also, That unless such the peace and tranquillity of the United States, he shall claim shall be presented within three years after the comforfeit and pay the sum of two thousand dollars. mission of the injury, the same shall be barred. And if SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That if any citizen the nation or tribe to which such Indian may belong, or other person shall carry or deliver any such talk, mes-receive an annuity from the United States, such claim sage, speech, or letter, to or from any Indian nation, shall, at the next payment of the annuity, be deducted tribe, chief, or individual, from or to any person or per therefrom, and paid to the party injured; and, if no sons whatsoever, residing within the United States, or annuity is payable to such nation or tribe, then the amount from or to any subject, citizen, or agent of any foreign of the claim shall be paid from the Treasury of the United Power or State, knowing the contents thereof, he shall States: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall forfeit and pay the sum of one thousand dollars. prevent the legal apprehension and punishment of any Indians having so offended. SEC. 15. And be it further enacted, That if any citizen or other person, residing or living among the Indians, or SEC. 18. And be it further enacted, That the superinelsewhere within the territory of the United States, shall tendents, agents, and sub-agents, within their respective carry on a correspondence, by letter or otherwise, with districts, be, and are hereby, authorized and empowered any foreign nation or Power, with an intent to induce to take depositions of witnesses touching any depredations such foreign nation or Power to excite any Indian nation, within the purview of the two preceding sections of this tribe, chief, or individual, to war against the United act, and to administer an oath to the deponents. States, or to the violation of any existing treaty; or in case any citizen or other person shall alienate, or attempt to alienate, the confidence of any Indian or Indians from the Government of the United States, he shall forfeit the sum of one thousand dollars. SEC. 16. And be it further enacted, That where, in the commission, by a white person, of any crime, offence, or misdemeanor, within the Indian country, the property of any friendly Indian is taken, injured, or destroyed, and a VOL. X.-T t SEC. 19. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the superintendents, agents, and sub-agents, to endeavor to procure the arrest and trial of all Indians accused of committing any crime, offence, or misdemeanor, and all other persons who may have committed crimes or offences within any State or Territory, and have fled into the Indian country, either by demanding the same of the chiefs of the proper tribe, or by such other means as the President may authorize; and the President may direct the military force of the United cumstances will possibly permit; and every officer or solStates to be employed in the apprehension of such dier who shall be guilty of maltreating any such person Indians, and also in preventing or terminating hostilities while in custody, shall suffer such punishment as a courtbetween any of the Indian tribes. martial shall direct. SEC. 20. And be it further enacted, That if any person SEC. 24. And be it further enacted, That, for the sole shall sell, exchange, or give, barter, or dispose of, any purpose of carrying this act into effect, all that part of the spirituous liquor or wine to an Indian, (in the Indian Indian country west of the Mississippi river, that is boundcountry,) such person shall forfeit and pay the sum of five ed north by the north line of lands assigned to the Osage hundred dollars; and if any person shall introduce, or tribe of Indians, produced east to the State of Missouri; attempt to introduce, any spirituous liquor or wine into west, by the Mexican possessions; south, by Red river; the Indian country, except such supplies as shall be and east, by the west line of the Territory of Arkansas necessary for the officers of the United States and troops and the State of Missouri, shall be, and hereby is, annexed of the service, under the direction of the War Depart- to the Territory of Arkansas; and that, for the purpose ment, such person shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceed- aforesaid, the residue of the Indian country west of the ing three hundred dollars; and if any superintendent of said Mississippi river shall be, and hereby is, annexed to Indian affairs, Indian agent, or sub-agent, or commanding the judicial district of Missouri; and, for the purpose aforeofficer of a military post, has reason to suspect, or is in-said, the several portions of Indian country east of the formed, that any white person or Indian is about to said Mississippi river, shall be, and are hereby, severally introduce, or has introduced, any spirituous liquor or annexed to the Territory in which they are situate. wine into the Indian country, in violation of the provisions SEC. 25. And be it further enacted, That so much of the of this section, it shall be lawful for such superintendent, laws of the United States as provides for the punishment Indian agent, or sub-agent, or military officer, agreeably of crimes committed within any place within the sole and to such regulations as may be established by the Presi- exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, shall be in force dent of the United States, to cause the boats, stores, in the Indian country: Provided, The same shall not expackages, and places of deposite of such person to be tend to crimes committed by one Indian against the person searched, and if any such spirituous liquor or wine is or property of another Indian. found, the goods, boats, packages, and peltries of such persons shall be seized and delivered to the proper officer, and shall be proceeded against by libel in the proper court, and forfeited, one-half to the use of the informer, and the other half to the use of the United States; and if such person is a trader, his license shall be revoked and his bond put in suit. And it shall moreover be lawful for any person in the service of the United States, or for any Indian, to take and destroy any ardent spirits or wine found in the Indian country, excepting military supplies as mentioned in this section. SEC. 26. And be it further enacted, That if any person who shall be charged with a violation of any of the provi sions or regulations of this act, shall be found within any of the United States, or either of the Territories, such of fenders may be there apprehended, and transported to the Territory or judicial district having jurisdiction of the same. use. SEC. 27. And be it further enacted, That all penalties which shall accrue under this act, shall be sued for and recovered in action of debt, in the name of the United States, before any court having jurisdiction of the same, SEC. 21. And be it further enacted, That if any person (in any State or Territory in which the defendant shall be whatever shall, within the limits of the Indian country, arrested or found,) the one-half to the use of the informer, set up or continue any distillery for manufacturing ardent and the other half to the use of the United States, except spirits, he shall forfeit and pay a penalty of one thousand when the prosecution shall be first instituted on behalf of dollars; and it shall be the duty of the Superintendent of the United States, in which case the whole shall be to their Indian Affairs, Indian agent, or sub-agent, within the limits of whose agency the same shall be set up or continued, SEC. 28. And be it further enacted, That when goods forthwith to destroy and break up the same; and it shall or other property shall be seized for any violation of this be lawful to employ the military force of the United act, it shall be lawful for the person prosecuting on behalf States in executing that duty. of the United States to proceed against such goods, or SEC. 22. And be it further enacted, That in all trials other property, in the manner directed to be observed in about the right of property, in which an Indian may be a the case of goods, wares, or merchandise brought into party on one side, and a white person on the other, the the United States in violation of the revenue laws. burden of proof shall rest upon the white person, when- SEC. 29. And be it further enacted, That the following ever the Indian shall make out a presumption of title in acts and parts of acts shall be, and the same are hereby, himself from the fact of previous possession or ownership. repealed, namely: An act to make provision relative to SEC. 23. And be it further enacted, That it shall be law-rations for Indians, and to their visits to the seat of Govful for the military force of the United States to be em-ernment, approved May thirteen, eighteen hundred; an ployed in such manner, and under such regulations as the act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian President may direct, in the apprehension of every per- tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers, approved son who shall or may be found in the Indian country, in March thirty, eighteen hundred and two; an act suppleviolation of any of the provisions of this act, and him im-mentary to the act passed thirtieth March, eighteen hunmediately to convey from said Indian country, in the near-dred and two, to regulate trade and intercourse with the est convenient and safe route, to the civil authority of the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers, apTerritory or judicial district in which said person shall be proved April twenty-nine, eighteen hundred and sixteen; found, to be proceeded against in due course of law; and, an act for the punishment of crimes and offences commitalso, in the examination and seizure of stores, packages, ted within the Indian boundaries, approved March three, and boats, authorized by the twentieth section of this act, eighteen hundred and seventeen; the first and second and in preventing the introduction of persons and prop-sections of the act directing the manner of appointing Inerty into the Indian country contrary to law; which per- dian agents, and continuing the "Act establishing tradingsons and property shall be proceeded against according to houses with the Indian tribes," approved April sixteen, law: Provided, That no person apprehended by military eighteen hundred and eighteen; an act fixing the compen force, as aforesaid, shall be detained longer than five days sation of Indian agents and factors, approved April twenty, after the arrest, and before removal. And all officers and eighteen hundred and eighteen; an act supplementary to soldiers who may have any such person or persons in cus-the act entitled "An act to provide for the prompt settody shall treat them with all the humanity which the cir-tlement of public accounts," approved February twenty Two agents for the Western Territory. An agent for the Chickasaws. four, eighteen hundred and nineteen; the eighth section cies, exercise a general supervision and control over the of the act making appropriations to carry into effect trea- official conduct and accounts of all officers and persons ties concluded with several Indian tribes therein men- employed by the Government in the Indian department, tioned, approved March three, eighteen hundred and under such regulations as shall be established by the Presinineteen; the second section of the act to continue in dent of the United States; and may suspend such officers force for a further time the act entitled "An act for es- and persons from their office or employments for reasons tablishing trading-houses with the Indian tribes, and for forthwith to be communicated to the Secretary of War. other purposes," approved March three, eighteen hun- SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the following dred and nineteen; an act to amend an act entitled "An Indian agents shall be appointed by the President of the act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian United States, by and with the advice and consent of the tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers," approved Senate, who shall hold their offices for the term of four thirtieth of March, eighteen hundred and two, approved years, and who shall give bond, with two or more securiMay six, eighteen hundred and twenty-two; an act provi-ties, in the penal sum of two thousand dollars, for the ding for the appointment of an agent for the Osage Indians faithful execution of the same, and shall receive the anwest of the State of Missouri and Territory of Arkansas, nual compensation of fifteen hundred dollars. and for other purposes, approved May eighteen, eighteen hundred and twenty-four; the third, fourth, and fifth sections of "An act to enable the President to hold treaties with certain Indian tribes, and for other purposes," approved May twenty-five, eighteen hundred and twentyfour; the second section of the "Act to aid certain Indians of the Creek nation in their removal to the west of the Mississippi, approved May twenty, eighteen hundred and twenty-six; and act to authorize the appointment of a sub-agent to the Winnebago Indians on Rock river, ap. proved February twenty-five, eighteen hundred and thirtyone: Provided, however, That such repeal shall not effect [affect] any rights acquired, or punishments, penalties, or forfeitures incurred under either of the acts or parts of acts, nor impair or affect the intercourse act of eighteen hundred and two, so far as the same relates to or concerns Indian tribes residing east of the Mississippi: And provided, also, That such repeal shall not be construed to revive any acts or parts of acts repealed by either of the acts or sections herein described. An agent for the Eastern Cherokees. An agent for the Indians in the State of Indiana. An agent at Rock island. An agent at Prairie du Chien. An agent for Michilimackinac and the Sault Sainte Marie. An agent for the Saint Peter's. An agent for the Upper Missouri. And the following agencies shall be discontinued at the periods herein mentioned, that is to say: The Florida agency, from and after the thirty-first day of December next. The Cherokee agency, from and after the thirty-first day of December next. The Indiana agency, from and after the thirty-first day of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-six. The Chicago agency, from and after the thirty-first day of December next. The Rock island agency, from and after the thirty-first day of December, eighteen hundred and thirty six. SEC. 30. And be it further enacted, That, until a Western Territory shall be established, the two agents for the Western Territory, as provided in the act for the organization of the Indian department, this day approved by the President, shall execute the duties of agents for such And all other agencies, not provided for in this act, tribes as may be directed by the President of the United from and after the passing thereof: Provided, That the States. And it shall be competent for the President to limitation of the said agencies shall not be construed to assign to one of the said agents, in addition to his proper prevent the President of the United States from disconduties, the duties of superintendent for such district of tinuing the same at an earlier period. And the Presicountry or for such tribes as the President may think fit. dent shall be, and he is hereby, authorized, whenever he And the powers of the superintendent at St. Louis over may judge it expedient, to discontinue any Indian agency, such district or tribes as may be assigned to such acting or to transfer the same, from the place or tribe designasuperintendent shall cease: Provided, That no additional ted by law, to such other place or tribe as the public sercompensation shall be allowed for such services. Approved, June 30, 1834. AN ACT to provide for the organization of the Department of Indian Affairs. vice may require. And every Indian agent shall reside and keep his agency within or near the territory of the tribe for which he may be agent, and at such place as the President may designate, and shall not depart from the limits of his agency without permission. And it shall be Be it enacted, &c., That the duties of the Governors competent for the President to require any military officer of the Territories of Florida and Arkansas, as Superin- of the United States to execute the duties of Indian tendents of Indian Affairs, shall hereafter cease, and the agent. duties of the Governor of the Territory of Michigan, as SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That a competent Superintendent of Indian Affairs, shall cease from and number of sub-agents shall be appointed by the President, after the establishment of a new Territory, embracing the with an annual salary of seven hundred and fifty dollars country west of Lake Michigan, should such a Territory each, to be employed and to reside wherever the Presibe established. And while the Governor of the said Ter- dent may direct, and who shall give bonds, with one or ritory of Michigan continues to act as Superintendent more sureties, in the penal sum of one thousand dollars, of Indian Affairs, he shall receive therefor the annual sum for the faithful execution of the same. But no sub-agent of one thousand dollars, in full of all allowances, emolu- shall be appointed who shall reside within the limits of any ments, or compensation for services in said capacity. agency where there is an agent appointed. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That there shall be a SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That nothing herein superintendency of Indian affairs for all the Indian coun-contained shall be construed to require the reappointtry not within the bounds of any State or Territory west ment of persons now in office, until the expiration of their of the Mississippi river, the superintendent of which shall present term of service; but the commissions of all Indian reside at St. Louis, and shall annually receive a salary of agents and sub-agents, now in office, shall expire on the fifteen hundred dollars. fourth day of March next, unless sooner terminated. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That Superintendents SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the limits of of Indian Affairs shall, within their several superintenden-[each agency and sub-agency shall be established by the Secretary of War, either by tribes or by geographical SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That it shall be law boundaries. And it shall be the general duty of Indian ful for the President of the United States, at the request agents and sub-agents to manage and superintend the in- of any Indian tribe to which any annuity shall be payable tercourse with the Indians within their respective agencies in money, to cause the same to be paid in goods, puragreeably to law; to obey all legal instructions given to chased as provided in the next section of this act. them by the Secretary of War, the Commissioner of SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That all merchanIndian Affairs, or the Superintendent of Indian Affairs; dise required by any Indian treaty for the Indians, payaand to carry into effect such regulations as may be pre-ble after making of such treaty, shall be purchased under scribed by the President. the direction of the Secretary at War, upon proposals to SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the President be received, to be based on notice previously to be of the United States may, from time to time, require ad-given; and all merchandise required at the making of any ditional security, and in large amounts, from all persons Indian treaty shall be purchased under the order of the charged or trusted, under the laws of the United States, commissioners, by such person as they shall appoint, or with the disbursement or application of money, goods, or by such person as shall be designated by the President effects of any kind, on account of the Indian department. for that purpose. And all other purchases on account SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That an interpreter of the Indians, and all payments to them of money or shall be allowed to each agency, who shall receive an goods, shall be made by such person as the President annual salary of three hundred dollars: Provided, That shall designate for that purpose. And the superintend where there are different tribes in the same agency, speak- ent, agent, or sub-agent, together with such military off ing different languages, one interpreter may be allowed, cer as the President may direct, shall be present, and at the discretion of the Secretary of War, for each of the certify to the delivery of all goods and money required said tribes. Interpreters shall be nominated, by the to be paid or delivered to the Indians. And the duties proper agents, to the War Department for approval, and required by any section of this act, of military officers, may be suspended, by the agent, from pay and duty, and shall be performed without any other compensation than the circumstances reported to the War Department for their actual travelling expenses; and all persons whatso final action; and blacksmiths shall, in like manner, be em- ever, charged or trusted with the disbursement or appli ployed wherever required by treaty stipulations, and such cation of money, goods, or effects of any kind, for the blacksmiths shall receive an annual compensation of four benefit of the Indians, shall settle their accounts, annually, hundred and eighty dollars; and if they furnish their shop at the War Department, on the first day of October; and and tools, an additional sum of one hundred and twenty dol- copies of the same shall be laid, annually, before Congress, lars; and their assistants shall be allowed an annual com- at the commencement of the ensuing session, by the pensation of two hundred and forty dollars. And wherever proper accounting officers; together with a list of the farmers, mechanics, or teachers are required by treaty names of all persons to whom money, goods, or effects, stipulations to be provided, they shall be employed under had been delivered within said year, for the benefit of the the direction of the War Department, and shall receive Indians, specifying the amount and object for which it was an annual compensation of not less than four hundred and intended, and showing who are delinquents, if any, in eighty dollars, nor more than six hundred dollars. (And in forwarding their accounts according to the provisions of all cases of the appointments of interpreters or other per- this act; and, also, a list of the names of all persons spsons employed for the benefit of the Indians, a preference pointed or employed under this act, with the dates of their shall be given to persons of Indian descent, if such can be appointment or employment, and the salary and pay of found, who are properly qualified for the execution of each. the duties. And where any of the tribes are, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, competent to direct the employment of their blacksmiths, mechanics, teachers, farmers, or other persons engaged for them, the direction of such persons may be given to the proper authority of the tribe. SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That no person employed in the Indian department shall have any interest or concern in any trade with the Indians, except for and on account of the United States; and any person offending herein shall forfeit the sum of five thousand dollars; and upon satisfactory information of such offence being laid before the President of the United States, it shall become his duty to remove such person from the office or situation he may hold. SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That the compensation prescribed by this act shall be in full of all emoluments or allowances whatsoever: Provided, however, That, where necessary, a reasonable allowance or provision may be SEC. 15. And be it further enacted, That the President made for offices and office contingencies: And provided, shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause any of the also, That where persons are required, in the performance friendly Indians west of the Mississippi river, and north of of the duties under this act, to travel from one place to the boundary of the Western Territory, and the region another, their actual expenses, or a reasonable sum in upon Lake Superior and the head of the Mississippi, to leiu thereof, may be allowed them: And provided, also, be furnished with useful domestic animals and implements That no allowance shall be made to any person for travel of husbandry, and with goods, as he shall think proper: or expenses in coming to the seat of Government to settle Provided, That the whole amount of such presents shall his accounts, unless thereto required by the Secretary of not exceed the sum of five thousand dollars. War: And provided, also, That no person shall hold more SEC. 16. And be it further enacted, That the President than one office at the same time under this act, nor shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause such rations as any agent, sub-agent, interpreter, or person employed he shall judge proper, and as can be spared from the under this act, receive his salary while absent from his army provisions without injury to the service, to be issu agency or employment without leave of the superinten-ed, under such regulations as he shall think fit to estab dent or Secretary of War: Provided, Such absence shall at no one time exceed sixty days. SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That the payment of all annuities or other sums stipulated by treaty to be made to any Indian tribe, shall be made to the chiefs of such tribe, or to such person as said tribe shall appoint; or if any tribe shall appropriate their annuities to the purpose of education, or to any other specific use, then to such person or persons as such tribe shall designate. lish, to Indians who may visit the military posts or agencies of the United States on the frontiers, or in their respective nations, and a special account of these issues shall be kept and rendered. SEC. 17. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to prescribe such rules and regulations as he may think fit for carrying into effect the various provisions of this act, and of any other act relating to Indian affairs, and nt. the settlement of the accounts of the Indian depart- the termination of the mission of Mr. Moore, one quarter's salary, for the expense of his return to the United States, five hundred dollars. Approved, June 30, 1834. SEC. 18. And be it further enacted, That all acts, or parts ACT in addition to the "act more effectually to prowide for the 'punishment of certain crimes against the United States, and for other purposes," approved March third, eighteen hundred and twenty-five. AN ACT repealing certain acts of the Legislative Council of the Territory of Florida. Be it enacted, &c., That all such acts or parts of acts passed by the Legislative Council of the Territory of Florida, as may impose a higher or greater tax on the slaves or other property of non-resident citizens than is Be it enacted, &c., That whenever any criminal, con-imposed on the slaves or other property of resident citicted of any offence against the United States, shall be zens of said Territory, be, and the same are hereby, reprisoned, in pursuance of such conviction and of the pealed, and declared null and void. ntence thereupon, in the prison or penitentiary of any SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any person ate or Territory, such criminal shall in all respects be shall attempt to enforce any of the acts or parts of acts bject to the same discipline and treatment as convicts passed by the Legislative Council of the 'Territory of ntenced by the courts of the State or Territory in which Florida, as aforesaid, by demanding or receiving any tax, ch prison or penitentiary is situated; and, while so con- imposition, or assessment, authorized or prescribed theremed therein, shall also be exclusively under the control by, such person shall, on conviction thereof, be punished the officers having charge of the same, under the laws by fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, or by imthe said State or Territory. prisonment not exceeding six months, or either or both Approved, June 30, 1834. of said punishments. N ACT increasing the salaries of the judges of the and Florida. Be it enacted, &c., That there shall be allowed and aid, annually, to each of the judges of the United States or the Territories of Michigan, Arkansas, and Florida, he sum of three hundred dollars, in addition to the salaies now allowed by law to the said judges, respectively. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall ke effect from the first day of January, eighteen hunred and thirty-four, and that the several sums authorized o be paid shall be paid out of any money in the Treasuy not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the county of Leon, in the Territory of Florida, shall be authorized to elect two additional members to the Legislative Council on the first Monday in September next, and it shall be lawful for the Legislative Council to designate by law the election districts, in such manner as to ensure an equality of representation to each. Approved, June 30, 1834. AN ACT to relinquish the reversionary interest of the United States in a certain Indian 'reservation lying between the rivers Mississippi and Desmoins. Be it enacted, &c., That all the right, title, and interest, which may accrue or revert to the United States, to SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the increas- the reservation of land lying between the rivers Desd salary allowed by this act shall only be paid to such moins and Mississippi, which was reserved for the use of the half-breeds belonging to the Sacs and Fox nations, udges in the Territories of Florida and Arkansas as are ot now allowed the extra compensation under the act of now used by them, or some of them, under a treaty made and concluded between the United States and the Sacs May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, pro-and Fox tribes or nations of Indians, at Washington, on iding for the adjudication of land claims, and shall take the fourth day of August, in the year one thousand eight fect as to the remainder when the extra pay aforesaid hundred and twenty-four, be, and the same are hereby, shall no longer be paid. Approved, June 30, 1834. AN ACT making compensation for certain diplomatic services, and for other purposes. Be it enacted, &c., That there be allowed and paid to W. H. D. C. Wright, to supply the deficiency of a former appropriation in the payment of the balance found due to him in the adjustment of his accounts, and for his diplomatic services at the court of Brazil, after the death of Mr. Tudor, and before the arrival of Mr. Brown, the sum of five thousand and thirty-seven dollars. Also, to the State of Maine, to reimburse the expense of supporting certain American citizens in prison at Fredericton, in New Brunswick, seven hundred and seventy-five dollars. Also, to John Adams Smith, Nathaniel Niles, and J. C. Pickett, Secretaries of Legation, a compensation for their services as charge d'affaires, at the rate of four thousand five hundred dollars per annum, during the time that they were actually left in charge of the affairs of the legations to which they were attached, deducting therefrom the amount already paid to them as Secretaries of Legation; the aforesaid sums to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. To James C. Pickett, Secretary of Legation left in charge of the affairs of the United States at Bogota on relinquished and vested in the said half-breeds of the Sacs and Fox tribes or nations of Indians, who, at the passage of this act, are, under the reservation in the said treaty, entitled, by the Indian title, to the same; with full power and authority to transfer their portions thereof, by sale, devise, or descent, according to the laws of the State of Missouri. Approved, June 30, 1834. AN ACT authorizing the Governors of the several States Approved, June 30, 1834. AN ACT authorizing the payment of bounty on certain fishing vessels lost at sea. Be it enacted, &c., That the collector of the port of |