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TREATY WITH THE SACS AND FOXES. 1842. 597 above tipulated for -shall be re-established and maintained at their new residence, upon the same terms and conditions as are above provided for their removal and establishment west of the north and south line mentioned in the first article of this treaty. Third. That the President of the United States will as soon as con- Bounduryto venient after the ratification of this treaty, appoint a commissioner for be *`;“d‘*“d the purpose, and cause a line to be run north from the painted or red mar 6 ` rocks on the White Breast, to the southern boundary of the neutral ground, and south from the said rocks to the northern boundary of Missouri; and will have the said lines so marked and designated, that the Indians and white people may know the boundary which is to separate their possessions. ARTICLE III. The Sacs and Foxes agree that they will remove to the west side of Removal of the line running north and south from the painted or red rocks on the I¤di¤¤¤- YVhite Breast, on or before the first of May next, and that so soon after the President shall have assigned them a residence upon the waters of the Missouri, as their chiefs shall consent to do so, the tribe will remove to the land so assigned them; and that if they do not remove before the expiration of the term of three years, they will then remove at their own expense; and the United States agree, that whenever the chiefs shall give notice to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs of the time at which they will commence their removal to the land to be assigned them by the President, a quantity of provisions sufficient for their subsistence Provisions for while removing, shall be furnished them at their agency, and an addi- ¤‘¤¤'¤¤V¤l· tional quantity, not exceeding one years supply shall be delivered to them upon their arrival upon the lands assigned them; the cost and expenses of which supplies shall be retained out of any money payable to them by the United States. ARTICLE IV. It is agreed that each of the principal chiefs of the Sacs and Foxes, Each principal shall hereafter receive the sum of five hundred dollars annually, out of §lg8g'° *°°T° the annuities payable to the tribe, to be used and expended by them for °““"° y` such purposes as they may think proper, with the approbation of their agent. ARTICLE V. It is further agreed that there shall be a fund amounting to thirty SSO_Q0D,,, be thousand dollars retained at each annual payment to the Sacs and retained at each Foxes, in the hands of the agent appointed by the President for their :;;f*lP°Y· tribe, to be expended by the chiefs, with the approbation of the agent, ' for national and charitable purposes among their people; such as the HOW to bg cx. support of their poor, burying their dead, employing physicians for the p¤¤d¤d· sick, procuring provisions for their people in cases of necessity, and such other purposes of general utility as the chiefs may think proper, and the agent approve. And if at any payment of the annuities of the tribe, a balance of the fund so retained from the preceding year shall remain unexpended, only so much shall be retained in addition as will make up the sum of thirty thousand dollars. ARTICLE VI. It is further agreed that the Sacs and Foxes may, at any time, with Appiicmm of the consent of the President of the United States, direct the application any portion of of any portion of the annuities payable to them, under this or any former °”““’“°’- treaty, to the purchase of goods or provisions, or to agricultural purposes, or any other object tending to their improvement, or calculated no increase the comfort and happiness of their people.