Public Law 29–LXV

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

Pay and mileage of members of Congress.

That the following sums of money be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the several objects of expenditure hereafter specified, viz,; For the pay and mileage of members of Congress and delegates, one hundred and seventy-six thousand five hundred and forty-eight dollars. For the

Expenses of mission to wild Indians of the prairie, &c.

Ante, p. 34.

Proviso.

expenses of the mission to the wild Indians of the prairie, including the expenses of a delegation of these Indians to the city of Washington and back to their homes, and also some presents to them, fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That no other or higher compensation shall be paid to the commissioners appointed to negotiate with said

1842, ch. 64.

Indians than is authorized by the act approved seventeenth July, eighteen hundred and forty-two, nor shall any expenditure be allowed by the accounting officers but what shall appear to have been proper TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 66, 67. 1846.and reasonable, and which shall, in all respects, be supported by the most satisfactory vouchers; Provided, further, That no account shall

Proviso.

be allowed, except for objects authorized in the instructions to the commissioners: Provided, however, That bills or drafts, heretofore drawn and negotiated by said commissioners, or either of them, on the commissioner of Indian affairs, in pursuance of instructions and authority given to them, shall be paid out of said appropriation, holding said commissioners to a due accountability for the amount of proceeds of said bills or drafts. For fulfilling treaty with the Kansas

Fulfilling treaty with the Kansas Indians, &c.

Indians, viz.: Interest on two hundred thousand dollars at five per cent., in lieu of investment per second article of treaty of fourteenth July, eighteen hundred and forty-six, ten thousand dollars; for defraying the necessary expenses of negotiating the treaty, payment to the missionary society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, for improvements, erection of a mill, and for provisions per same article and treaty, two thousand dollars; for expenses of surveying the western line of lands ceded, and marking the same, per third article of the same treaty, one thousand dollars.