Contingent Expences " " " " 150.00 Provisions for Indians at payment of Annuities 150.00 ---------- $35.070.00 AMOUNT OF MONEY DUE CREEK INDIANS ANNUALLY UNDER TREATY 7TH AUGUST 1856 Permanent Annuity $24 500.00 Permanent provisions for Blacksmiths 3.360 00 " " " Iron & Steel 540.00 " " " Wheelwrights 600 00 " " " Wagonmakers 600 00 Assistance in Agriculture 2.000.00 Interest on $200.00. at 5 per centum for purposes of Education 10.000.00 ---------- $41.600.00 Amounts due Creek Indians for amounts invested by Treaty 7th August 1856. For purposes of Education $200 000 Creek Orphan fund 200 741 --------- $400.741 CREEK ORPHAN FUND INVESTED AS FOLLOWS In Bonds of State of Kentucky at 5pr Cent, $1.000 00 " " " " " Missouri " 5-1/2 " 28.000 00 " " " " " " " 6 " 28.000.00 " " " " " Tennessee " 5 " 20.000.00 " " " " " Virginia " 6 " 73 800 00 United States " 6 " 49 941 00 ----------- $200.741.00 NORTH FORK OF CANADIAN RIVER, 5th July 1861 SIR: On receipt of this you will please effect a continuance, on behalf of the Confederate States of America, with Mr. Charles B. Johnson of Fort Smith, of the contract existing up to 30th June last between the United States of America and himself, for feeding the Wichitas, Caddoes, and other kindred and other bands of Indians now settled in the country leased from the Choctaws and Chickasaws. If no more favorable terms can be effected, you are authorized to adopt those of the former contract, with its conditions and stipulations in all respects. You will provide that the contract shall end, at the pleasure of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, on the 31st day of December 1861, and not sooner; and that it shall be at his option to continue it for such further term as he may please, upon the same terms in all respects.