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TREATY WITH THE SACS AND FOXES. MAY 18, 1854. 1075 description thereof signed by said delegates and agent to the Commissioner of Indian Aifairs ; and thereupon the selection so made, shall be taken and deemed as the future permanent home of the Sacs and Foxes of Missouri. It is expressly understood that these Indians shall claim under this article, no more than fifty sections of land, and if that quantity or any portion thereof shall be selected, as provided above, outside of the reservation herein made, then said reservation or a quantity equal to that which may be selected outside thereof, shall be and the same is hereby ceded, relinquished, and conveyed to the United States. Aizrrcnm 2. In consideration of the cession and relinquishment made p,,,.m,,,,t for in the preceding article, the United States agree to pay to the Sacs and said cmiou- Foxes of Missouri, the sum of forty-eight thousand dollars, in manner following, viz: fifteen thousand dollars in the month of October in each of the years one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, and one thousand eight hundred and fifty-tive; ten thousand dollars in the same month of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, and eight thousand dollars in the same month of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven; which several sums shall be paid directly to the Indians, or otherwise, as the President may deem advisable, for building houses, breaking and fencing lands, purchasing stock, farming implements, seeds, and such other articles as may be necessary for their comfort and prosperity. Anrrcrn 3. The President may cause to be surveyed, in the same _Di==p¤¤iti<>5wf' manner in which the public lands are surveyed, the reservation hereinS“‘dr°s°"“°‘°”‘ provided for the Sacs and Foxes of Missouri; and may assign to each person, or family, desiring it, such quantity of land as, in his opinion, will be sutheient for such person, or family, with the understanding that he or they will occupy, improve, and cultivate the same, and comply with such other conditions as the President may prescribe. The land thus assigned may hereafter be confirmed by patent to the parties, or their representatives, under such regulations and restrictions as Congress may prescribe. ARTICLE 4. The said Indians reserve a tract of one section of land Reserve of at the site of their present farm and mill, and to include the same; and 3·1‘§l’f*“`m md if they desire it, said farm may be cultivated for them for a term not ex- ° eeeding two years ——at the end of which time, or sooner if the Indians request it, the said tract and mill may be sold by the President to the · highest bidder, and upon payment being made a patent to issue to the purchaser ; the proceeds of the sale to be paid over to the Indians with their other moneys. ARTICLE 5. At the request of the Indians it is hereby agreed that Gum to the the board of foreign missions of the Presbyterian church shall have a br-md 0;,,,,,- tract of one hundred and sixty acres of land, to be selected by said board ¤i¤¤¤· at a distance not exceeding two miles in a westerly direction from the grant made to said board at their mission by the Ioway Indians - and the President is authorized to issue a patent for the same to such person or persons as said board may designate. Anrrotn G. The said Indians release the United States from all clgifggggr claims or demands of any kind whatsoever arising, or which may hereaf- {Omg, tremu, ter arise, under former treaties, and agree to remove within six months after the ratification of this instrument, and to subsist themselves without cost to the United States ; in consideration of which release and agreement the United States agree to pay them the sum of five thousand dollars —— three thousand of which may be applied to the settlement of their affairs preparatory to removal. Anrronn 7. The invested fund provided by the second clause of the Provisiplps rc. second article of the treaty of twenty-first day of October, one thousand f.§gQ’,t;f,m;d eight hundred and thirty-seven (being one hundred and fifty-seven thou- under treaty of sand four hundred dollars) shall remain with the United States at an lgagh) annual interest of five per cent., which interest as it accumulates shall` P'