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1074 TREATY WITH THE SACS AND FOXES. MAY 18, 1854. FRANKLIN PIERCE, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: T0 ALL AND smeoraiz TO wuom rnnsn rnnsnnrs snnmi conn, ennnrmoz ‘ May 18, 1g54_ Wnnnnas, a treaty was made and concluded at the city of Washing- --—·—···*· ton on the eighteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty- four, by George W. Manypenny, Commissioner on the part of the United States, and the following named delegates of the Sacs and Foxes of Missouri, viz: Pe-to-o-ke-mah, or Hard Fish; Mo-less or Wali-pe—nem-mah, or Sturgeon; Ne-son-quoit, or Bear; Mo-ko—ho-ko, or Jumping Fish; and No-ko-what, or Fox; they being thereto duly authorized by the said Sac and Fox Indians, which treaty is in the words following, to wit: Articles of agreement and convention made and concluded at the city of Washington this eighteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, by George W. Manypenny, Commissioner on the part of the United States, and the following named delegates of the Sacs and Foxes of Missouri, viz: Pe-to-o-ke-mah, or Hard Fish ; Mo-less or Wah-pe-nem-mah, or Sturgeon ; Ne—son-quoit, or Bear; Mo-ko-ho-ko, or Jumping Fish; and No-ko—what, or Fox ; they being thereto duly authorized by the said Sac and Fox Indians. Cm,,,,, of Amrrorn 1. The Sacs and Foxes of Missouri hereby cede, relinquish land to the and convey to the United States all their right, title and interest in and U‘““°`d S”·“’*· to the country assigned to them by the treaty concluded on the seventeenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, between William Clark, superintendent of Indian affairs, on the part of the United States, and the Ioways and Missouri Sacs and Foxes, being the lower half of the country described in the second article thereof as " the small strip of land on the south side of the Missouri River, lying between the Kickapoo northern boundary line and the Grand Nemahaw River, and extending from the Missouri back and westwardly with the said Kickapoo line and the Grand Nemahaw, making four hundred sections; to be divided between the said Ioways and Missouri band of Sacs and Foxes; the lower half to the Sacs and Foxes, the upper half to the Reservation. Ioways;" saving and reserving fifty sections, of six hundred and forty acres each, which shall be selected in the western part of the ccssion by the delegates, parties hereto, and the agent for the tribe after their return home, and which shall be located in one body and set off by mctes and bounds: Provided, That the delegates and agent can find such an amount of land in one body within said specified section of country suitable to the wants and wishes of the Indians. And it is further provided, That should a suitable location, upon examination, to the full extent of nfty Sections not be found within said western part of this eession, then the said delegates and agent shall be permitted to extend the location west or northwest of the country herein ceded and south of the Great Nemahaw River, over so much of the public domain, otherwise unappropriated, as shall make up the deficiency; or to make a selection entirely beyond the limits of the country herein ceded upon any lands of the United States, not otherwise appropriated, lying as aforesaid west or northwest of the ceded country and South of the Great Nemahaw. And in either case they shall describe their selection, which must be made within six months from the date hereof, by metes and bounds, and transmit the