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TREATY WITH THE POTTAWATOMIES. NOVEMBER 15. 1861. 1191 A PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. TO ALL AND SINGULAR TO wrt0M THESE PRESENTS smu.1: COME, GREETING: Nov. 15, 1861. WHEREAS a treaty was made and concluded at the Pottawatomie I’r¢¤mbl<>· agency, on the Kansas River, in the State of Kansas, on the fifteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, between William W. Ross, commissioner on the part of the United States, and the chiefs, braves, and headmen of the Pottawatomie nation of Indians, on the part of said nation ; And whereas the said treaty having been submitted to the Senate of the United States for its constitutional action thereon, the Senate did, by its resolution of the Efteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, advise and consent to the ratification of said treaty with certain amendments; And whereas said nation of Indians did, on the seventeenth day of C9¤¤'*·°6¤8 April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, by a committee com- p"u°°’ posed of Shawque, (chief;) To-penubbee, (chief;) We-xiieh-seh, (chief;) Me-yenco, (chief,) and Shomen, (brave,) appointed to transact all their national business between them and the agent of the United States and the Indian Department, and by Jos. N. Bourassa, George L. Young, B. H. Bertrand, M. B. Beaubien, L. H. Ogee, John Tipton, and Lewis View, in the presence of Clark W. Thompson, (Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Northern Superintendency,) Lewis S. Hayden, John. B. Gordon, and Elisha Goddard, give their free and voluntary assent to the amendments made by the Senate in the resolution aforesaid; which treaty, as amended by the Senate and assented to by said committee and others, is word for word as follows : Articles of a treaty made and concluded at the agency on the Kansas River, on the fifteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, by and between Wm. W. Ross, commissioner on the part of the United States, and the undersigned chiefs, braves, and headmen of the Pottawatomie nation, on behalf of said nation. ARTICLE I. The Pottawatomie tribe of Indians believing that it ]>°t{;¤w¤t0miq" will contribute to the civilization of their people to dispose of a portion gsewagtgonbgndjb of their present reservation in Kansas, consisting of five hundred and 1,0;:3 OJ seventy-six thousand acres, which was acquired by them for the sum of $87,000, by the fourth article of the treaty between the United States and the said Pottawatomies, proclaimed by the President of the_United States on the 23d day of July, 1846, and to allot lands in severalty to those of said tribe who have adopted the customs of the whites and desire to have separate tracts assigned to them, and to assign a portion of said reserve to those of the tribe who prefer to hold their lands in common: it is therefore agreed by the parties hereto that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs shall cause the whole of said reservation to be surveyed in the same manner as the public lands are, surveyed, the expense whereof tube surveyed, shall be paid out of the sales of lands hereinafter provided for, and the quantity of land hereinafter provided to be set apart to those of the tribe