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TREATY WITH THE CHIPPEWA INDIANS. MAY 7, 1864. 693 Treaty between the United States of America and the Chippewas of the Mssissippi and Pillager and La/ze Wnnebagoshish Bands of Chippewa Indians in Mnnesota, concluded May 7, 1864; Ratification advised, with an Amendment, by the Senate, February 9, 1865 ; Amendment assented to, February 14, 1865 ; Proclaimed by the President of the United States, March 20, 1865. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ro 11.1. sun srnounm ro wuou THESE rnnsnurs snnm. comm, oemtrnm: M¤y7, 1864· WHEREAS a treaty was made and concluded at the City of Washington, Preamble. in the District of Columbia, on the seventh day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, by and between William P. Dole, Commissioner of Indian Aifairs, and Clark W. Thompson, Superintendent of Indian Affairs for ·the northern superintendency, on the part of the United States, and the Chippewa chief Que-we-zance, or Hole-in-the-day, and Mis-qua-dace, or Turtle, on the part of the Chippewas of the Mississippi, and Pillager and Lake Winnebagoshish bands of Chippewa Indians in Minnesota, and duly authorized thereto by them, which treaty is in the words and figures following, to wit :— Arlicles of agreement and convention made and concluded at the City of Contracting Washington this seventh day of May, A. D. 1864, between William P. P"“*‘°“· Dole, Commissioner of Indian Aifairs, and Clark W. Thompson, Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the northern superintendency, on the part of the United States, and the Chippewa chief Hole·in-the-day, and Mis-qua-dace, for and on behalf of the Chippewas of the Mississippi, and Pillager and Lake Winnebagoshish bands of Chippewa Indians in Minnesota. ARTICLE I. The reservations known as Gull Lake, Mille Lac, Sandy Gun lake and Lake, Rabbit Lake, Pokagomin Lake, and Rice Lake, as described in other reservathe second clause of the second article of the treaty with the Chippewas Qzdfafgigég tm of the twenty-second of February, 1855, are hereby ceded to the United gxcgpt, &c_ ’ States, excepting one half-section of land, including the mission buildings Vol. x. p. 1166. at Gull Lake, which is hereby granted in fee simple to the Reverend Gramm John John Johnson, missionary, and one section of land, to be located by the Johnson. Secretary of the Interior, on the southeast side of Gull Lake, and which H I _ tb is hereby granted in fee simple to the chief Hole—in-the-day, and a section dw? °`m` °` to. chief Mis-qua-dace, at Sandy Lake, in like manner, and one section to M;S-qu.,.d,m_ chief Shaw-vosh-kung, at.Mille Lac in like manner. Shaw-vosln ARTICLE II. In consideration of the foregoing cession, the United kung- _ States agree to set apart for the future home of the Chippewas of the Mis- fo?€§§"g;Q";)‘;_ sissippi, all the lands embraced within the following described boundaries, was of thegiis. excepting the reservations made and described in the third clause of the ¤iSSiPPisecond article of the said treaty of February 22d, 1855, for the.Pi1lager and Lake Winnebagoshish bands; that is to say, beginning at a point one Boundaries. mile south of the most southerly point of Leach Lake, and running thence in an easterly course to a point one mile south of the most southerly point