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TREATY WITH THE STOCKBRIDGES AND MUNSEES. Fun. 1856. 665 said council, eighty acres more may be allotted to him or her ; each single male person above eighteen years of age shall be entitled to eighty acres; and each female person above eighteen years of age, not belonging to any family, and each orphan child, to forty acres; and sufficient land shall be reserved for the rising generation. After the said allotment is made, the persons entitled to land may take Immediate posimmediate possession thereof, and the United States will thenceforth and S§S'°;‘u0§;"’°“t_ until the issuing of the patents, as hereinafter provided, hold the same in a cr _ men trust for such persons, and certificates shall be issued, in a suitable form, uogggggigi to guaranteeing and securing to the holders their possession and an ultimate issue. title to the land; but such certificates shall not be assignable, and shall contain a clause expressly prohibiting the sale or transfer by the holder of the land described therein. After the expiration of ten years upon the application of the holder of such certificate, made with the consent of the said Stockbridge and Munsee council, and when it shall appear prudent and for his or her welfare, the President of the United States may direct, that such restriction on the power of sale, shall be withdrawn and a patent _ Wi}¢¤ p=W¢¤f issued in the usual form. is t° ’Ss“"‘ Should any of the heads of families die before the issuing of the certiii- Provision in cates or patents, herein provided for, the same shall issue to their heirs ; °“s° °f d°f and if the holder of any such certificate shall die without heirs, his or lier pmol} an I ` land shall not revert to the United States, unless on petition of the Stockbridge ancl Munsee council for the issuing of a new certificate for the land of such deceased person, to the holder of any other certificate for land, and on the surrendering to the United States of such other certificate, by the holder thereofl the President shall direct the issuing of a. new certificate for such land; and in like manner new certificates may be given for lots of land, the prior certidcates for which have been surrendered by the holders thereof Anricnm IV. Of the monies set aside for improvements by the Ild How moneys of these Articles, not exceeding one fourth shall be applied to the building **;*1dgg b° °"' of roads leading to, and through said lands; to the erection of a school- P ` house, and such other improvements of a public character, as will be deemed necessary by the said Stockbridge and Munsee council, and approved by the superintendent of the northern superintendency. The 1'CSl(ll\€ of the said fund shall be expended for improvements to be made by and for the different members and families composing the said tribes, according to a system to be adopted by the said council, under the direction of the superintendent aforesaid, and to be first approved by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Anriorn V. The persons to be included in the apportionment of the _Who mo onland and money to be divided and expended under the provisions of this Wed °°l°*· agreement, shall be such only, as are actual members of the said Stockbridge and Munsce tribes, (a roll or census of whom shall be taken and appended to this agreement,) their heirs, and legal representatives; and hereafter, the adoption of any individual amongst them shall be null and void, except it be first approved by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. _ _ _ Anrrcnn VL In case the United States desire to locate on the tract di;l;‘§;‘;°g¤l:_ of land to be selected as herein provided, the Stockbridges and Munsees gated on said emigrated to the west of the Mississippi in conformity to the treaty of Uw- September third, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, the Stockbridges and Munsees, parties to this treaty, agree to receive them as brethren : Provided, That none of the said Stockbridges and Munsees, whether now residing at Stockbridge, in the State of Wisconsin, in the State of New York, or west of the Mississippi, shall be entitled to any of these lands or the money stipulated to be expended by these articles, unless they remove to the new location within two years from the ratification hereof Aicriomc VII. The said Stoekhridges and Munsccs hereby set aside Payments for vor..xr. 'l‘ma.u·.-87