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TREATY WITH THE KANSAS INDIANS. Mnzcu 13, 1862. 1221 Treaty between the United States 0 America and the K ' Indians. Ooncluded at the Kam; Agency, in Kansas, m Ratffied, with Amendment, February, 6, 1863. Amendment assented to, February 26, 1863. Pwclaimed by the President of the United States, March 16, 1863. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. ·r0 Au. Aim smcunaa ro wnou runsm museums sznm. ooum,cnm¤·rma: Much 13, 1869. WHEREAS a Treaty was made and concluded at the Kansas agency, in Preamble. the State of Kansas, on the thirteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and sixty-two, by andbetween H. W. Farnsworth, commissioner on the part of the United States, and the hereinafter named chiefs and headmen of the Kansas tribe of Indians, representing said Indians and duly authorized thereto by them, which treaty is in the words and figures following, to wit: Whereas a treaty was made and concluded at the Kansas agency, in the Former treaty. then Territory, but now State, of Kansas, on the fifth day of October, A. D. 1859, by and between Alfred B. Greenwood, commissioner on the part of the United States, and the chiefs and headmeri representing the Kansas tribe of Indians, and authorized by said tribe for that purpose; which treaty, after having been submitted to the Senate of the United States for its constitutional action thereon, was duly accepted, ratified, and confirmed by the President of the United States, on the seventeenth day of November, A. D. 1860, with an amendment to the fourth article thereof; which amendment, first proposed and made by the Senate on the twenty-seventh day of June, A. D. 1860, was afterwards agreed to and ratified by the aforesaid chiefs and headmen of the Kansas tribe of Indians on the fourth day of October of the same year: Now, therefore, it is further agreed and concluded on this thirteenth Gqntrscting day of March, A. D. 1862, by and between H. W. Farnsworth, a com- l"""°“· missioner on the part of the United States, and the said Kansas tribe of Indians, by their. authorized representatives, the chiefs and headmen thereof, to wit: Ancricna 1st. That the said treaty and the amendment thereof be i '1‘1=¤v•1¤•¤{) further amended so as to provide that a fair and reasonable value of °’;.lQf§;°£3;; ff; the improvements made by persons who settled on the diminished reserve be ascertained, of said Kansas Indians between the second day of December, A. D. 1856, ggnmgxg and the fifth day of October, A. D. 1859, shall be ascertained by the issued mm·°,_ Secretary of the Interior, and certificates of indebtedness by said tribe See amendshall be issued by him to each of such persons for an amount equal to the ¤¤°¤¤» P- 313- appraisement of his or her improvements, as aforesaid; and that like certidcates shall be issued to the class of persons who settled on said diminished reservation prior to the second day of December, A. D. 1856, for the amounts of the respective claims as provided for and ascertained under the provisions of the amendment of said treaty: and that like certificates be issued to the owners of the same for the amounts of claims which have been examined and approved by the agent and superintendent, and revised and confirmed by the Secretary of the Interior, under the provisions of the 5th article of said treaty, and that all such certificates shall be receivable as cash, to the amount for which they may be issued, in payment for lands purchased or entered on that part of the first assigned reservation outside of said diminished reservation, or of any part of the diminished reservation that may hereafter be ofiered for sale, or may be