Fort on Bald Head, North Carolina

Fort on Federal Point, do

103,000 00 32,000 00 116,000 00 35,000 00 116,000 00 96,000 00 120,000 00 12,000 00 $5,340,500 22

Deposited during the year to
the credit of the Treasurer

1,864 32

$705,013 51 $62,679 35

$240,568 00
258,465 14
244,337 44
673,205 00

Fort on Point Patience 173,000 00 Fort on the narrows of Penobscot river, Me. 101,000 00 164,000 00

The classification in this table, distinguishing three periods, exhibits the works enumerated in the order of their efficiency to meet the earliest possible emergency.

Leaving to be accounted for

The accounts of five officers for the 3d quarter are yet to be received, which, it is believed, will reduce the balance about $7,000; and it has been ascertained from the statements already received for the month of October, that more than $48,000 of the balance was applied during that month to the public service. entertain not a doubt that the whole amount will be accounted for at the close of the present quarter. The large amount of public property under the administration of the Department, whether in the hands of its officers or those of companies, is regularly and promptly accounted for.

I have been able to make a reduction in the estimates for the Department proper of about 14,000 dollars: with cient for the service of the year. judicious administration, the sum asked for will be suffi

Of the works under the direction of the Department, the barracks at fort Crawford, authorized by appropriations made at the two last sessions of Congress, are in such a state of forwardness as to leave no doubt of comfortable accommodations being prepared for four companies during the present year; and it is believed the appropriation will be sufficient, or nearly so, to complete the works contemplated.

The officer charged with the improvements at Jeffer son barracks, authorized at the last session of Congress, reported on the 1st instant that they would be entirely finished by the 15th instant. The appropriation will be

sufficient.

Connecticut, by appropriations made at the two last ses. The barracks and quarters authorized at New London, sions of Congress, have been completed. A small tract of land adjoining the post is necessary for the accommoREPORT OF THE QUARTERMASTER GENERAL, dation of the garrison, for the purchase of which I have

QUARTERMASTER GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington City, Nov. 23, 1830.

SIR: In compliance with your order, I have the honor to report the operations of this Department during the 1st, 2, and 3d quarters of the present year, to which I have added the 4th quarter of 1829-thus presenting the results of an entire year.

The balance in the hands of the several officers,on the 30th of September, 1829, amounted to $46,367 68 To which is to be added the amount remitted in the 4th quarter of 1829 $113,688 84 133,791 22 184,024 00 282,078 41

1st quarter of 1830

2d quarter of 1830

3d quarter of 1830

Proceeds of sales of damaged public property, and of the rents of lands and public buildings not required for military purposes, during the above period

submitted an estimate.

The barracks authorized at fort Severn have been
completed as far as the appropriation would admit: about
appropriation is necessary for officers' quarters, for which
three hundred doliars are required to finish them, and an
anestinate has been submitted.

Congress for barracks and quarters at fort Gratiot, oper-
Under an appropriation made at the last session of
date of the last report, the work had so far advanced as
ations were commenced early in the season, and, at the
to leave but little doubt of its completion during the en-
suing winter.

The title to the land occupied by the military at fort
Howard, Green bay, being unsettled, it was considered
advisable to defer, for the present, the erecting of the
barracks and quarters authorized at that place by an ap-
$713,582 47 propriation made at the last session of Congress.

7,742 71 $767,692 86

At the date of my last annual report, about one-third of the military road in the State of Maine had been put under contract. Owing to the difficulties encountered by the contractors, only a small portion of the work was executed in the last year. It has, however, been completed in the present season; and the remainder of the road through to Houlton has been put under contract, and is in progress of execution. Operations were delayed in the carly part of the year by the extravagant nature

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of the proposals which were received in the first instance. perches. This, added to twenty-three thousand five The prices offered were so unreasonable as to induce the hundred and seventy perches, deposited last year, makes determination to reject the bids, and extend the time for the whole quantity deposited to the present time one completing the road to another season; by which course, | hundred and thirty-five thousand and seventy-nine perchcontracts have been formed on more favorable terms.- es. The length of the deposite of stone on the breakThe road is now in such a state of forwardness as to be water is upwards of one thousand feet, or more than one passable for carriages a greater part of its course, and will fourth of its intended length; and that of the deposite form an excellent winter communication between Ban- on the ice breaker is upwards of eight hundred feet, or gor and Houlton. The great number of streams which more than one half of its proposed length. The lower require bridges will increase the expense somewhat be-point of the ice-breaker and the upper point of the yond the estimate of last year, and will render a small ad-breakwater are brought up quite to the level of high ditional appropriation necessary. water, and comprise each an area of seventy by one hundred feet at the plane of low water.

Operations were commenced early in the year on the road leading from St. Augustine to New Smyrna, in Florida, and were continued until the sickly season set in, when they were necessarily suspended. The section Jying between Tomoka and Spruce creek, a distance of twenty miles, and comprehending several bridges and many causeways, has been completed. The work was resumed on the 1st instant, and the officer charged with its superintendence reports that the remainder of the road through to New Smyrna will be finished by the middle of the next month.

The effect of the deposite already made, as a barrier to the force of the ocean, has been experienced by ves sels in several instances during heavy gales of wind which prevailed in the latter part of the season; for, although there is but a small part of each dyke above the plane of low water, the remainder being but a few feet below that plane, has contributed to make a harbor. By limiting the deposites of the ensuing season to the present foundations, the works can be brought up to their destined height, and made to afford shelter to a number of vessels, particularly those engaged in the execution of the work. The numerous wrecks that took place in August last, have proved how much such a shelter is required.

The military road from Pensacola to Tallahassee, and thence to St. Augustine, has been repaired as far as the appropriations made for that object would authorize. The eastern section, however, lying between Alachua court-house and Picolati, on the St. John's river, a dis- The whole of the appropriation applicable to the work tance of about sixty miles, has not received any repairs during the present season will be required to meet the The inhabitants in that vicinity represented that the road public engagements to the close of the year; and, in adleading from Alachua court-house to Jacksonville woulddition to the sum of sixty-two thousand dollars, approafford greater convenience to the settlements, and it was deemed advisable to apply the appropriation exclusively to that portion of the military road lying between Alachua and Tallahassee.

Instructions have been given, under the provisions of the act of the 31st May last, to repair the road from Ala chua court-house to Jacksonville. The bridge authorized to be erected over the St. Sebastian river, near St. Augustine, where the military road crosses that stream, has been finished during the present year.

priated for the first quarter of the next year,a further appropriation of two hundred, and eight thousand dollars will be required for the service of that year; and it is respectfully recommended that an appropriation be asked for the year 1832.

Having been called on at the last session of Congress for an estimate of the expense of mounting a portion of the infantry for the defence of the western frontier, I take this occasion, as a western citizen, to remark, that the nature of the country south of the Missouri river, The road from Alachua to Marianna, in Florida, for and the character, habits, and resources of the Indians which an appropriation was made at the last session of who inhabit or range on it, are such as to render it imCongress, has been chiefly put under contract, and is possible to secure that frontier by infantry alone, how progressing satisfactorily. Operations have been sus- numerous or well appointed soever they may be, unless pended on a portion of it, with a view to a better location horses be provided to mount them. As well might we of the route, by which the distance will be shortened. leave the defence of our maritime frontier, and the proThe operations for the improvement of Sackett's Har-tection of our foreign commerce, to the artillery stationed bor, suspended during the last winter, were resumed on on the sea board. The means of pursuing rapidly, and the 13th of April, and the officer charged with the work punishing promptly, those who aggress, whether on the reports that every thing required to be done will be ac- ocean or on the land, are indispensable to complete se complished during the present season, and that no fur-curity; and if ships of war are necessary in the one case ther improvements will be necessary for many years to a mounted force is equally so in the other. without a Navy, depredations might be committed upon our commerce with entire impunity, not only on the high seas, but within our harbors, and in view of our forts. So, without a mounted force south of the Missouri, the Indian, confident of the capacity of his horse to bear him beyond the reach of pursuit, despises our power, chooses his point of attack, and often commits the outrages to which he is prompted, either by a spirit of revenge or a love of plunder, in the immediate vicinity of our troops; and the impunity of the first act invariably leads to new aggressions. To compel him to respect us, we must make him feel our power, or at all events convince him that the guilty can have no security in flight.

come.

Operations were resumed at the Delaware breakwater about the first of April, and have been attended with a success beyond our most sanguine expectations.

The contractors were bound, by the terms of their contract, to deliver seventy thousand perches of stone, positively, and twenty-six thousand perches, conditional ly; but, in consequence of the loss of all their fixures at their quarries on the Hudson by the ice, they were not only subjected to a heavy loss, but were delay ed in their operations. We had the power to declare their contract void, but permitted them to go on and deliver as much as they had it in their power to furnish during the season. As the public interests, however, required that the work: should be vigorously prosecuted, we availed ourselves of the delay of the contractors to purchase from others. The contractors delivered about forty thousand perches, and we purchased from others upwards of seventy thou sand; making the whole quantity deposited equal to one hundred and cleven thousand five hundred and nine

Were we

I would therefore respectfully recommend that provi sion be made to mount at least one company at each of the posts south of the Missouri: and I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant,

TH. S. JESUP, Quartermaster General. The Hon. JOHN H. EATON,

Secretary of War, Washington City.

Documents accompanying the President's Message.

REPORT OF THE PAYMASTER GENERAL.

PAYMASTER GENERAL'S OFFICE, 2
Washington City, Dec. 1, 1830.

S
SIR: I have the honor, herewith, to submit a tabular
statement of the funds advanced to paymasters, from the
1st day of October, 1829, to the 30th of September,
1830; the balances unexpended, and deducted from the
estimates for the fourth quarter of the present year; and
the balance yet to be accounted for; also exhibiting
the period to which the troops in each district have been
paid.
From this statement it will be seen, that, of the
$1,205,100 drawn from the Treasury, therere mains but
13,084 45 to be accounted for; and I have informa-
tion that the payments for which this last sum was ad-
vanced have been made, but the accounts have not yet
reached me; they will probably be received before the
close of this week, when the whole will be accounted
for without the loss of a cent.

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partment, during the year ending 30th September, 1830; by which it will be seen that 965 small arms, 16 gan car riages, and about 1,000 setts of accoutrements for small arms, are among the principal articles issued to the army: 937,700 pounds of lead were issued to the Engineer Department.

made, and of the arms, and artillery carriages and equip. Statement E exhibits an account of the expenditures ments procured, under the act of 1808, for arming and equipping the militia, during the year ending 30th September, 1830; from which it will appear that the arms procured are, 11,240 muskets, 361 repeating and Hall's rifles, 2,101 holsters, and 86 field artillery carriages, with their various equipments; and that the amount expended was 187,520 39 dollars.

tioned to each of the several States and Territories, for Statement F exhibits an account of the arms appor the year 1829; and of the artillery, arms, and other military equipments, distributed to the militia, during the year ending September 30, 1830. occations of the public lead mines, during the year ending Statement G exhibits the general results of the opera30th September, 1830; to which is appended a brief statement, showing the quantity of lead made at these mines, in each year, from 1821 to the present time. By

I have the satisfaction to add, that on no former sion have the payments, generally, been brought to such late periods, or the accounts so fully rendered. Most respectfully, your obedient servant. N. TOWSON, Paymaster-General. The Hon. J. H. EATON, Secretary of War.

these statements it will be seen that the rents which accrued during the year past amount to 563,567 pounds, being 890,564 pounds less than the rents of the previous year. The quantity of lead made at the public mines,

REPORT FROM THE ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT. during the last year was 8,332,058 pounds, being less

ORDNANCE OFFICE,
Washington, November 30, 1830.

than the product of the previous year by 6,209,252 pounds. This falling off in the quantity of lead made is to be attributed to the low price which the article has borne in the market for two years past. The same cause · has diminished the rents, but these have been further reduced by the lower rates at which rents have been charg

SIR: I have the honor to submit herewith a general report of the operations of this office during the year past. Statement marked A exhibits an account of the mo-ed since the 1st of January last. neys drawn from the Treasury, and remitted through this office, during the year 1829, to disbursing officers and contractors; and, also, the amount of accounts rendered, and the balance remaining in the hands of each at the close of the year. By this statement, it appears that the remittances, during the year 1829, amounted to That the accounts rendered and settled, during the same period, amounted to

The quantity of lead which has accrued to the United States, for the rent of the mines, during the year past, if sold in the market, would barely suffice for paying the expenses of collection.

$991,496 48

957,094 55

And that the unexpended balances remain-
ing in the hands of the several disbursing
officers at the close of the year, amount-
ed to
$34,401 93
Statement B shows the amount of funds transmitted to
the several disbursing officers of this Department, and to
contractors, during the three first quarters of the present
year; by which it will be seen that the total amount
transmitted was
$708,087 91
And that the accounts rendered amounted to 620,423 25

Leaving an unexpended balance in the
hands of disbursing officers, on the 30th
September, of

$87,664 66 Statement C exhibits an account of some of the principal articles made at the several armories and arsenals, during the year ending 30th September, 1830; by which it will appear that 26,125 new muskets, with their various appendages, have been made at the armories; and that 20,956 small arms have been cleaned and repaired : 2,101 holsters, about 700 setts of accoutrements for small arms, and 90 new gun carriages, have been made at the arsenals.

Statement D exhibits the number and description of arms, artillery, and other ordnance supplies, issued by his Department to the Army, and to the Engineer De

It is not probable that any considerable extension of the mining operations will be made for years to come; for it is now satisfactorily ascertained that our mines have yielded, for a few years past, a much larger supply than the consumption of the country requires: and, unless a market for the excess be found in foreign countries, it is not to be expected that even the present rate of production can be sustained. During the past year, a great num. ber of miners have abandoned the business, because the low price of lead did not afford an adequate compensa. tion for the labor of procuring it.

It appears, upon a careful examination of the Treasury statements for a number of years past, that the whole quantity of lead, in all its various forms, which was imported during a period of ten years, commencing with 1819, amounted to an average, per annum, of

And that, during the same period, the
quantity exported averaged

Leaving for domestic consumption an ave-
rage of

Which consisted of the following kinds,

viz :

Of white and red lead, and litharge
Of pig, bar, and sheet lead, and lead
pipes
Of shot

Average quantity derived from importa-
tions of foreign lead

7,835,923 lbs.

1,338,218

6,497,705

2,786,639

2,855,828 855,238

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Prior to the year 1828, the product of the public mines has been liquidated; and there is little doubt, from the had not been so considerable as materially to affect the solidity of the securities in the cases of the $2,808 42 unmarket; but, during that year, the product was sudden- settled, and from the disposition already evinced, that ly increased to more than twelve millions of pounds; and the whole will be promptly paid without resorting to suit. It affords me great gratification to state, that of the during the same year, the excess of importations was 8,603,439 pounds, exceeding the average of previous moneys remitted and charged in the period embraced, years more than two millions. This, with the product of there has not been one cent lost to government; and of the public mines, supplied the market with an unexpect-91 officers disbursing in the commissariat, only three accounts have not been received; and although these are ed excess of fourteen millions pounds, being equal to a at the most remote posts, they will in all probability reach supply for two years in advance. During the year 1829, the public mines yielded four- this office during the present month: it is, however, beteen and a half millions pounds, and the importation ceas-lieved, that if received, the result of the statement would ed. There was an excess of exports, in that year, of not be materially affected. Very respectfully, your most cbt. servant, nearly one and a half millions. GEO. GIBSON, C. G. S. Hon. J. H. EATON, Sec'y of War.

The average annual product of the public mines, during the three last years, is 12,728,366 pounds, being about double the quantity usually received from foreign countries, prior to the year 1829.

The public lead mines in Missouri were offered at public sale in October last, under the act of March 3, 1829.

REPORT FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT OF
INDIAN AFFAIRS.

DEPARTMENT OF WAR,

OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, Nov. 26, 1830. SIR: In compliance, in part, with the order of the Department of the 7th August last, I had the honor, on the 22d ultimo, to submit an estimate, in detail, for the cur amounting to $160,690. rent expenses of the Indian Department in the year 1831,

The section of country in which the mines on the Upper Mississippi are situated, having been ceded to the United States by the treaty of Prairie du Chien, of August, 1829, and the value of these mines having been fully developed, it is believed that the time has arrived for surveying and selling these lead mine lands. It is supposed that the principal object of reserving these lands from sale was to prevent a monopoly of them, while their extent and value were but little known to the public. They have now been go extensively wrought, and are, at In further compliance with said order, I now have the present, so well known, that this object has been accom-honor to submit the statements herewith, marked A and B. plished; and no reasons can be perceived why a survey and sale of them should be longer deferred. Independent of the mineral riches of these lands, the ment under each head of appropriation, in the Indian De1830; the amount for which accounts have been renderclimate is represented as remarkably salubrious, and the partment, during the three first quarters of the year soil as fruitful, and well adapted to support a dense po-ed under each head, for the same period; and the ba pulation; and it may be considered of national import-lances remaining to be accounted for, according to the ance to encourage the settlement of this remote and exposed frontier. I would, therefore, recommend that measures be taken for causing these lands to be surveyed and

sold.

I have the honor to be, sir, your most obedient,
G. BOMFORD, Bt. Col. on Ordnance service.
Hon. J. H. EATON, Secretary of War.

Statement A exhibits the amount remitted for disburse

books of this office.

It will be seen that the whole amount remitted for disbursement within the period mentioned is 528,734 18; that the whole amount for which accounts have been rendered, is $401,342 09; and that the amount remaining to be accounted for is $127,392 09. It will be seen, also, that, of the balances remaining to be accounted for, those alone, under the heads of pay of superintendents and agents, sub-agents, interpreters, and blacksmiths, and annuities, when added together, amount

REPORT FROM THE COMMISSARY GENERAL OF to the sum of 62,914 dollars, and 31 cents; and which,

SUBSISTENCE.

OFFICE OF THE COM. GEN. OF SUBSISTENCE,
Washington, 11th November, 1830.

f deducted from the aggregate balance, to wit: $127,392 09, will leave but $64,477 78 to be accounted A considerable portion for under all the other heads. of the disbursements for annuities, as well as for other objects, are made by agents stationed at remote posts, Sin: In compliance with instructions from the Depart- and often, owing to the Indians prolonging their absence ment of War of 7th August ultimo, I have the honor to from their villages on their hunting excursions, at so late submit a statement, in duplicate, of the moneys remitted a period of the year, that sufficient time has not elapsed and charged to contractors, and the disbursing officers of for their returns for the 3d quarter to reach the Depart When these are received, the balance, if not the commissariat, in the 1st, 2d, and 3d quarters of the ment. year, amounting to $233,013 16, and the monies account- wholly accounted for, will be reduced to a very small ed for by them, amounting to $208,716 64, leaving a ba-sun, especially when compared with the whole amount lance outstanding of $24,381 18, from which is to be de- remitted, or with that of the security held by the Goducted $2,808 42, charged to contractors, not as advan-vernment of the officers through whom the disbursements ces, or remittances out of the annual appropriation for 1830, but as the difference between the prices of provisions previously contracted for, and the purchases made by agents of the Department in 1829, to supply deficiencies at several posts, and totally unconnected with the fiscal operations of the present year, leaving $21,572 76 actually in the hands of the assistant and acting assistant commissaries, at the expiration of the 3d, applicable to, and which will be entirely accounted for in, the 4th quar-year, of 242. ter of the year.

The sum originally charged to contractors on their failure is, by this statement, 4,502 31, of which $1,010 11

are made.

Statement B exhibits the number of schools in the Indian country, where established, by whom, the number of teachers, the number of scholars, and the amount now allowed a year to each school from the annual appropria tion of $10,000 for the civilization of the Indians. This statement shows an increase in the number of scholars over that embraced in the report from this office for the last

The amount remitted in the three first quarters of the present year, from the appropriation for the civilization of the Indians, for school allowances, is $6,693, as will be

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seen by reference to statement A. The amount of these the case, which is subject to the approval of the Presiallowances to the several schools, as arranged to take ef.dent of the United States. fect from the 1st of July last, and exhibited by statement By the resolution of the Senate, passed at last session B, is $6,650; which, deducted from the annual approof Congress, conditionally ratifying the supplementary priation of 10,000 applicable to this year, will leave a article, concluded the 24th September, 1829, to the balance, (without taking into view any balance that may treaty with the Delaware Indians of the 3d of October, remain of former years,) on the 1st of January next, of 1818, certain lines, specified in said resolution, were re$3,350, to be added to the annual appropriation that will quired to be run and marked. Mr. McCoy, who was then be applicable to 1831, (making, together, $13,350,) employed to make the survey, has been engaged on it, and disposed of, during that year, as the Secretary of but had not, at the date of the last reports from him, War may deem it expedient to direct. completed it.

It is believed that the disbursements in the Indian Department for the years 1829 and 1830 have been confined strictly within the appropriations applicable to them, and that no arrearages have or will accrue on account of disbursements made in either of those years. But the arrearages which it was ascertained (and so stated in the report from this office for the last year,) had accrued to a considerable amount in the Indian Department prior to the year 1829; are still pressing on the Department, and it yet remains without any means to meet them. Impressed with the importance of some adequate provision being made for these arrearages, I have made this refer ence to them here, under a hope that the attention of Congress might again be called, at the ensuing session, to the documents submitted to them on the subject at last, and an act be passed making such appropriations as, from the circumstances of the case, may appear to be proper.

The lines of the cessions made by the treaties concluded at Prairie du Chien, with the Chippewa, Ottowa, and Pottawatamie, and Winnebago Indians, on the 29th July and 1st August, 1829, and which were ratified during the last session of Congress, have been run by Mr Lyon, the surveyor employed for that purpose; and his report, with the field notes and map of the survey, are filed in this office.

A report has also been received from Messrs. J. S. Simonson and Charles Noble, the agents appointed to value the buildings and other improvements belonging to the Carey missionary establishment on the St. Joseph, in Michigan Territory, under a provision made for this purpose by the treaty with the Pottawatamie Indians, of 20th September, 1828. It remains for the report of the agents to be submitted to Congress to obtain the necessary ap propriation to pay for the improvements, as stipulated by the 5th article of the treaty just mentioned.

A few remarks in reference to the existing laws relating to Indian affairs, with a view to some change or modification of the provisions of the same will close this report.

There are some other documents and estimates, which were submitted at the last session of Congress, for appropriations to carry inte effect sundry treaty-stipulations for annuities and other objects, for the year 1830; but which, as no appropriations were made, it will be neces- The first act providing for Indian annuities, and which sary to submit again at the ensuing session, to obtain ap- is still in force, was passed in 1796. Other acts for propriations both for the year 1830 and 1831. They will, the same object have been since passed, from time to accordingly, be prepared and reported in time to be sub-time, as they were required by new treaties, which are mitted at an early day in the session.

Our relations with the Indians continue on a friendly footing. Nothing has happened to interrupt them during the year, except it be the acts of hostility which have occasionally been committed against each other by certain tribes bordering on the Mississippi, and which, it was apprehended at one time, were about to assume a character that would seriously disturb the peace of our citizens along that frontier: but, by the timely interference of the Governmicut, peace has been made between the Indians, and our citizens thereby secured, for the present, at least, from the disturbances with which they were threatened by their wars.

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limited or permanent, according to the treaty stipulations for which they are intended to provide. A part of the provisions of some of them, though not directly repealed, has been superseded by treaties or acts of more recent date; hence it is difficult (except for persons who are familiar with these changes) to distinguish the provisions that are still in force from those that are not. There are now twenty-one acts under which Indian annuities are drawn, and they require as many accounts to be opened and kept on the books of the Treasury. If the same system be continued, every new treaty that stipulates for an annuity will necessarily increase the number of acts for that object, and, of course, the number of accounts. The treaties concluded at the conferences ordered to therefore respectfully submit, whether it be not desirable be held by General Clark and Colonel Morgan, with the to change the system, and adopt one which is more simIndians, for this and other purposes, at Prairie du Chien, ple, and will require less time and labor to execute it. have lately been forwarded by General Clark, and are This, I humbly apprehend, may be attained by repealing filed in this office. These treaties, with those recently all the existing acts of appropriation for annuities, and concluded with the Chickasaw and Chocktaw nations, embodying the whole in one act, to be passed annually, under the directions of the President of the United on a statement to be laid before Congress at the comStates, towards the execution of the act prssed at the mencement of every session, showing the annuities due, last session of Congress, "to provide for an exchange of and to be provided for in the ensuing year. This would lands with the Indians residing in any of the States or keep Congress annually informed of the state of the InTerritories, and for their removal west of the Mississip- dian annuities, and the actual amount required from year pi," are all the treaties that have been made with the to year to pay them. The appropriation might be made Indians since the last session of Congress. They are rea-in one sum, equal to the whole amount of annuities due dy to be laid before the Department when required.

The Commissioners (Gen. E. Root, and James McCall and J. T. Mason, Esquires) appointed in pursuance of a provision contained in the 2d article of the treaty concluded at the Butte des Morts, the 11th of August, 1827, to adjust the difficulty between the Menomonee, and Winnebago, and New York Indians, in relation to the boundaries of their lands in the vicinity of Green bay, have been engaged on that duty, and recently made a report, submitting a proposition for the adjustment of VOL. VII-E.

for the year to be provided for, or for the specific sums due, for such year, to each nation or tribe. In either case, it would never require more than one account to be opened on the books of the Treasury. With these remarks, I respectfully submit the accompanying statement of all the annuities that will be due and payable in the year 1831, (marked C,) that, if the object (which is explained by the foregoing remarks) be approved, the same may be subinitted to Congress, to be acted upon as may be esteemed proper.