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TREATY WITH THE TETONS, ETC. 1825. 251 States, shall come into their district of country, for the purposes of trade or other views, they will apprehend such person or persons, and deliver him or them to some United States’ superintendent, or agent of Indian Affairs, or to the nearest military post, to bé dealt with according to law.-And they further agree to give safe conduct to all persons who may be legally authorized by the United States to pass through their country: and to protect, in their persons and property, all agents or other persons sent by the United States to reside temporarily among them. ARTICLE 5. That the friendship which is now established between the United Course to be States and the Teton, Yancton, and Yanctonies bands should not be P¤¤'=¤*¤<ii¤9¥<!¢r interrupted by the misconduct of individuals, it is hereby agreed, that ;?6§f;°jQ:HQ“' for injuries done by individuals, no private revenge or retaliation shall duals, Gu:. take place, but instead thereof, complaints shall be made, by the party injured, to the superintendent or agent of Indian affairs, or other person appointed by the President; and it shall be the duty of the said Chiefs, upon complaint being made as aforesaid, to deliver up the person or persons against whom the complaint is made, to the end that he or they may be punished agreeably to the laws of the United States. And, in like manner, if any robbery, violence, or murder, shall be committed 011 any Indian or Indians belonging to aid bands, the person or persons so offending shall be tried, and if found guilty, shall be punished in like manner as if the injury had been done to a white man. And it is Chiefs to exert agreed, that the chiefs of the said Teton, Yancton, and Yanctonies *l‘°ms°l"”,;° bands shall, to the utmost of their power, exert themselves to recover ;.gg;;l;t° " horses or other property, which may be stolen or taken from any citizen or citizens of the United States by any individual or individuals of said bands; and the property so recovered shall be forthwith delivered to the agents, or other person authorized to receive it, that it may be restored to the proper owner. And the United States hereby guaranty to any Indian or Indians of said bands, a full indemnification for any horses or other property which may be stolen from them by any of their citizens: Provided, That the property so stolen cannot be recovered, and that Proviso. sufficient proof is produced that it was actually stolen by a citizen of the United States. And the said Teton, Yancton, and Yanctonies bands engage, on the requisition or demand of the President of the United States, or of the agents, to deliver up any white man resident among them. ARTICLE 6. And the Chiefs and Warriors, as aforesaid, promise and engage, their No arms to be band or tribe will never, by sale, exchange, or as presents, supply any Sifnishsd by I¤· nation or tribe of Indians, not in amity with the United States, with ,,$“f,,“,Q,Eff;°“' guns, ammunition, or other implements of war. with U. S. Done at Fort Lookout, near the Three Rivers of the Sioux Pass, this 22d day of June, A. D. 1825, and of the Independence of the United States the forty-ninth. In testimony whereof, the said Commissioners, Henry Atkinson and Benjamin O’Fallon, and the Chiefs, Headmen, and Warriors, of the Teton, Yancton, and Yanctonies bands, of Sioux tribe, have hereunto set their hands, and affixed their seals. H. ATKINSON, Br. Gen. U S. Army. BEN]. O’FALLON, U S Agt. Ind.