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TREATY WITH CREEKS AND SEMINOLES. AUGUST 7, 1856. 701 of the last-mentioned treaty; and costing annually one thousand seven hundred and ten dollars; two thousand dollars per annum, during the pleasure of the President, for assistance in agricultural operations under the same treaty and article ; six thousand dollars per annum for education for seven years, in addition to the estimate for present fiscal year, under the fourth article of the treaty of January fourth, eighteen hundred and forty-tive; one thousand dollars per annum during the pleasure of Vol. ix. p. 822. the President, for the same object, under the fifth article of the treaty of February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-three; services of a Vol. vii. p. 419. wagon maker, blacksmith and assistant, shop and tools, iron and steel, during the pleasure of the President, under the same treaty and article, and costing one thousand seven hundred and ten dollars annually; the last instalment of two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars for two blacksmiths and assistants, shops and tools, and iron and steel, under the thirteenth article of the treaty of March twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred Vol. vii. p. ses. and thirty-two, and which last it is hereby stipulated shall be continued for seven additional years. The following shall also be excepted from the foregoing quitclaim, relinquishment, release, and discharge, viz: the fund created and held in trust for Creek orphans under the second article of the treaty of March twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two; Vo]. vii. p. 366. the right of such individuals among the Creeks as have not received it, to the compensation in money provided for by the act of Congress of March third, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, in lieu of reservations of 1837, ch. 41. land to which they were entitled, but which were not secured to them, under the said treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty-two ; the right of Vol. v. p. 186. the reservees under the same treaty, who did not dispose of their reservations to the amounts for which they have been or may be sold by the United States; and the right of such members of the tribe to military bounty lands, as are entitled thereto under existing laws of the United States. The right and interest of the Creek Nation and people in and to the matters and things so excepted, shall continue and remain the same as though this convention had never been entered into. Anriorm VI. In consideration of the foregoing quitclaim, relinquish- paymm to ment, release, and discharge, and of the cession of a country for the fh? C1‘¤•;l<S Y0? Seminole Indians contained in the first article of this agreement, the {md United States do hereby agree and stipulate to allow and pay the Creek $1,000,000. Nation the sum of one million of dollars, which shall be invested and paid as follows, viz: two hundred thousand dollars to be invested in some safe _ $200,000 to be stocks, paying an interest of at least five per cent. per annum ; which in- ““"’“°d· terest shall be regularly and faithfully applied to purposes of education among the Creeks; four hundred thousand dollars to be paid per capita, $400,000 to be under the direction of the general council of the Creek Nation, to the in- Pwd Pe" °"1”‘“· dividuals and members of said nation,* as soon as practicable after the ratification of this agreement; and two hundred thousand dollars shall be set apart to be appropriated and paid as follows, viz: ten thousand dollars $10,000 for arte be equally distributed and paid to those individuals, and their heirs, ;"p"{g3,l"g$’4;‘f* who, under act of Congress of March third, eighteen hundred and thirty- ’ seven, have received money in lieu of reservations of land to which they were entitled, but which were not secured to them under the treaty of March twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two ; one hundred and $120,000 for-_ twenty thousand dollars to be equally and justly distributed and paid, CF;g§1Sg;h§r;m1· under the direction of the general council, to those Creeks, or their %§32_ descendants, who emigrated west of the Mississippi River prior to said treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty-two, and to be in lieu of and in full compensation for the claims of such Creeks to an allowance equivalent to the reservations granted to the eastern Creeks by that treaty, and seventy _$70,000 for in ihousand dollars for the adjustment and final settlement of such other d“"d“a1°l“‘mS· ’lF See Amendment post, p. 706.