Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the superintendent of Indian affairs at St. Louis, Missouri, be authorized and required to ascertain, by proof, the number and value of the horses, mules, asses, and other property, forcibly taken from Thomas Talbot, Elisha Stanley, William Wolfskill, James Collins, Edwin M. Ryland, James Fielding, and Solomon Houck, by the Pawnee Indians, on the night of twelfth day of October, anno Domini eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, at a place about twenty-five miles west of the Pawnee fork of the Arkansas River, and report the same to the Secretary of War, whose duty it shall be to pay over to the parties aforesaid the value of the property they respectively lost, and for that purpose the sum of four thousand one hundred and fifty-five dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, March 3, 1849.