Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioner of Indian Affairs be, and he is hereby, authorized to adjust and settle the claims of Lindley and Joseph Ward, arising upon their contract with the United States to furnish rations for the emigrating Indians of the Potawatomie tribe, in eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, according to the principles set forth in the report accompanying this bill; and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, February 15, 1848.