TREATY WITH THE CHIPPEWAS. AUG. 2, 1855. 633 FRANKLIN PIERCE, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Aug. 2, 1855. ·ro Am. masons ·ro wnoiu russia rnnsrmrs sium. comm, Gnnmrme: Wnmnnas, a treaty was made and concluded at the city of Detroit, in the State of Michigan, on the second day of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-Eve, between George W. Manypenny and Henry C. Gilbert, commissioners on the part of the United States, and the Chippewa Indians of Saginaw, parties to the treaty of January 14th, 1837, and that portion of the bands of Chippewa Indians of Swan Creek and Black River, parties to the treaty of May 9, 1836, and now remaining in the State of Michigan, which treaty is in the words and figures following, to wit :— Articles of agreement and convention, made and concluded at the city Title. of Detroit, in the State of Michigan, this second day of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, between George W. Manypenny and Henry C. Gilbert, commissioners on the part of the United States, and the Chippewa Indians of Saginaw, parties to the treaty of January 14, 1837, and that portion of the bands of Chippewa Indians of Swan Creek and Black River, parties to the treaty of May 9, 1836, and now remaining in the State of Michigan. In view of the existing condition of the Indians aforesaid, and of their legal and equitable claims against the United States, it is agreed between the contracting parties as follows, viz :— ARTICL1: 1. The United States will withdraw from sale, for the bene- qmail, lggdg fit of said Indians, as herein provided, all the unsold public lands within *1 Michigan to the State of Michigan embraced in the following descriptions, to wit :-— Zim :,32 mm First. Six adjoining townships of land in the county of Isabella, to be selected by said Indians within three months from this date, and notice thereof given to their agent. Second. A tract of land in one body, equal in extent to two townships, on the north side of Saginaw Bay, to be selected by them, and notice given as above provided? The United States will give to each of the said Indians, being the head Grant of kind of a family, eighty acres of land; and to each single person over twenty- "Igd?"°h °*` Sud one years of age, forty acres of land; and to each family of orphan chil- uns` dren under twenty-one years of age, containing two or more persons, eighty acres of land; and to each single orphan child under twenty-one years of age, forty acres of land; to be selected and located within the several tracts of land hereinbefore described, under the same rules and regulations, in every respect, as are provided by the agreement concluded on the 31st day of July, A. D. 1855, with the Ottawas and Chippewas of Michigan, for the selection of their lands. And the said Chippewas of Saginaw and of Swan Creek and Black River, shall have the same exclusive right to enter Iands within the tracts withdrawn from sale for them for five years after the time limited for selecting the lands to which they are individually entitled,* as is extended to the Ottawas and Chippewas by the terms of said agreement. And the provisions therein contained relative to the purchase and sale of land for school-houses, churches, and educational purposes, shall also apply to this agreement.
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