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TREATY WITH THE CHIPPEWA INDIANS. MARGH I1, 1863. 1249 Treaty with the Clhippewas of the Mississi i and the Pilla er an Iwnibigoshish bands of Ofttlopewa Indigiislin Minnesota? Uonildldfd at Washington, in the District of Oolumbia, March 11, 1863. Ratijied, March 13, 1863, with Amendments. Amendments agreed to, lj;;;'}]; Proclazmed by the President of the United States, BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A PROOLAMQATION. ro au. AND smounan ro wnom rnmsm ynnsnurs suam. comm, onnnrme: March 11, 1863. Wunnnas a treaty was made and concluded at the city of Washing- Preamble. ton, in the District of Columbia, on the eleventh day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, by and between WVilliam P. Dole, commissioner of Indian affairs, and Clark W. Thompson, superintendent of Indian atiairs of the northern superintendency, on the part of the United States, and Henry M. Rice, of Minnesota, and the hereinafter named chiefs and headmen, for and on behalf of the Chippewas of the Mississippi, and the Pillager and Lake Winibigoshish bands of Chippewa Indians in Minnesota, and duly authorized thereto by them, which treaty is in the words and figures following, to wit: Articles of agreement and convention, made and concluded at the city Contracting of Washington, this eleventh day of March, A. D. one thousand eight P"°““‘ hundred and sixty-three, between William P. Dole, commissioner of Indian affairs, and Clark W. Thompson, superintendent of Indian affairs of the northern superintendency, on the part of the United States, and Henry M. Rice, of Minnesota, for and on behalf of the Chippewas of the Mississippi, and the Pillager and Lake Winibigoshish bands of Chippewa Indians in Minnesota: . · Anrionn I. The reservations known as Gull Lake, Mille Lac, Sandy Q¤¤¤i¤5¤g¢*· Lake, Rabbit Lake, Pokagomin Lake, and Rice Lake, as described in the {Q3-}':i§§d° t° _ second clause of the second article of the treaty with the Chippewas of States, except, the 22d February, 1855, are hereby ceded to the United States, excepting &°· V; one half section of land, including the mission buildings at Gull Lake, which is hereby granted in fee simple to the Reverend John Johnson, missionar . Anrrohm II. In consideration of the foregoing cession, the United Reservation se: States agree to set apart for the future homes of the Chippewas of the Eggs; l‘°“ Mississippi, all the lands embraced within the following described boundaries, excepting the reservations made and described in the third clause of the second article of the said treaty of February 22d, 135fi, for the l Pillager and Lake Winibigoshish bands; that is to say, beginning at a B¤¤¤d¤¤¤¤· point one mile south of the most southerly point of Leech Lake, and running thence in an easterly course to a point one mile south of the most southerly point of Goose Lake; thence due east to a point duesouth from the intersection of the Pokagomin reservation- and the Missxgsippi river ; thence on the dividing line between “Deer River and Lakes and "Mashkorden’s River and Lakes," until a. point is reached north of lllé first named river and lakes; thence in a direct line northwestwardly to the outlet of “Two·Routes Lake; " thence in a southwesterly direction to the northwest corner of the “Cass Lake " reservation; thence in a southwesterly direction to “Karbekaun " river; thence down said river to the