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TREATY WITH THE DELAWARE INDIANS. MAY 30, 1860. 1129 Treaty between the United States and the Delaware Tribe of Indians. Obncluded May 30, 1860. Ratified and proclaimed August 22, 1860. A PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: TO am. arm SINGULAR TO WHOM THESE ramsnzrrs snun coun, nmnrrmc: M,}. a0_ 18%. WHEREAS a treaty was made and concluded at Sarcoxieville, on the Preamble. Delaware reservation, on the thirtieth day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty, by Thomas B. Sykes, as commissioner on the part of the United States, and the chiefs and headmen of the Delaware tribe of Indians hereinafter mentioned, which treaty is in the following words, to wit: Articles of agreement and convention made and concluded at Sareoxie- Contracting ville, on the Delaware reservation, this thirtieth day of May, one thousand R"°i“· eight hundred and sixty, by Thomas B. Sykes as commissioner on the part of the United States, and the following named chiefs of the Delaware tribe of Indians, viz: John Connor, head chief of the whole tribe; Sar-cox-ie, chief of the Turtle band; Ne-con-he·c0n, chief of the Wolf band ; Rock-a-to-wha, chief of the Turkey band, and assistants to the said head chiefl chosen and appointed by the people, and James Connor, chosen , by the said chiefs as delegate. ARTICLE I. By the tirst article of the treaty made and concluded at p,,,,;,,,,,,, of the city of Washington, on the sixth day of May, one thousand eight hun- treaty of May dred and fifty-four, between George W. Manypenny, commissioner on te 853* the part of the United States, and certain delegates of the Delaware tribe of Indians, which treaty was ratified by the Senate of the United States vo1.x.p.10ls on the eleventh day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, there was reserved, as a permanent home for the said tribe, that part of their country lying east and south of a line beginning at a point on the line between the Delawares and Half-breed Kansas. thrty miles in a direct line west of the boundary between the Delawares and Wyandottes; thence north ten miles; thence in an easterly course to a point on the south bank of Big Island creek, which shall also be on the bank of the Missouri river, where the usual high-water line of said creek intersects the high-water line of said river. ( And by the eleventh article of said treaty it was stipulated that " at any time hereafter when the Delawares desire it, and at their request and expense, the President may cause the country reserved for their permanent home, to be surveyed in the same manner as the ceded country` is surveyed, and may assign such Portion to each person or family as shall be designated by the principal men of the tribe : Provident such assignments shall be uniform." The Delawares having represented to the government that it is their wish that a portion of the lands reserved for their home may be divided among them in the manner contemplated by the eleventh article of the treaty aforesaid, it is hereby agreed by the parties hereto, that the said reservation shall be surveyed as early as practicable after the ratitication Reservation to of these articles of agreement and convention, in the same manner that be ,,,,,,,,3-,,d_ the public lands are surveyed; and to each member of the Delaware tribe there shall be assigned a tract of land containing eighty acres, to in- Eighzyacresto clude in every case, as far as practicable, a. reasonable portion of timber, ;’:cf:$m}e:_°0t. to be selected according to the legal subdivisions of survey. me mba,