Volume 4
Public Law 19–CXXXV
to enable the President of the United States to hold a treaty with the Choctaw and Chicasaw nations of Indians.
Approved May 20, 1826
Statutory text
An Act
to enable the President of the United States to hold a treaty with the Choctaw and Chicasaw nations of Indians.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled,
That the sum of twenty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to defray the expenses of treating with the Choctaw and Chicasaw nations of Indians, for the purpose of extinguishing their titles to lands within the limits of the state of Mississippi. The said sum [to] be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 2.
And be it further enacted, That, for the purpose of negotiating said treaty on the part of the United States, the President shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint commissioners after the adjournment of the present session of Congress, or at an earlier period, if practicable, and to fix their compensation, so as not to exceed what has been heretofore allowed for like services.
Approved, .