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TREATY WITH THE CHIPPEWA INDIANS. MAY 7, 1864. 695 made, and to report annually thereon, on or before the nrst day of November; and also as to the qualifications and moral deportment of all persons residing upon the reservation under the sanction of law or regulation, and they shall receive tbr their services five dollars per day for the P8}'- time actually employed, and ten cents per mile for travelling expenses; provided that no one shall be paid in any one year for more than twenty days’ service, or for more than three hundred miles' travel. ARTICLE VIII. No person shall be recognized as a chief whose band ohms wm, numbers less than fifty persons ; and to encourage and aid the said chiefs Ends 0**16*5 *lj¤¤ in preserving order, and inducing by their example and advice the mem- 0g3i;`,;i°_t° be`°°` bers of their respective bands to adopt the pursuits of civilized life, there shall be paid to each of said chiefs annually out of the annuities of said Gratuitiee. bands a sum not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars ($150), to be dctermined by their agent according to their respective merits. ARTICLE IX. To improve the morals and industrial habits of said In- A¤<*"**» muhdians, it is agreed that no agent, teacher, interpreter, trader, or other em- gzgiilfgéj °° have ployees shall be employed, appointed, licensed, or permitted to reside within the reservations belonging to the Indians, parties to this treaty, missionaries excepted, who shall not have a family residing with them at their respective places of employment or trade within the agency, whose moral habits and fitness shall be reported upon annually by the board of visitors ; and no person of full or mixed blood, educated or partially edu- Improper percated, whose fitness, morally or otherwise, is not conducive to the welfare igziggtgg gm'? of said Indians, shall receive any benefit from this or any former treaties, ties_ ea and may be expelled from the reservation. ARTICLE X. All annuities under this or former treaties shall be paid payment of as the chiefs in council may request, with the approval of the Secretary of ¤¤¤¤ifi¤S· the Interior, until otherwise altered or amended, which shall be done whenever the board of visitors, by the requests of the chiefs, may recommend it; provided that no change shall take place ottener than once in two years. ARTICLE XI. Whenever the services of laborers are required upon _Prcference the reservation, preference shall be given to full or mixed bloods, if they §Q;’;‘dtg,;'£s°‘,;S shall be found competent to perform them. laborers. i ARTICLE XII. It shall not be obligatory upon the Indians, parties to Indians not to this treaty, to remove from their present reservations until the United ”m°"° *0*** States shall have first complied with the stipulations of Articles IV. and RE; VI. of this treaty, when the United States shall furnish them with all 1 i necessary transportation and subsistence to their new homes and subsist- SGS Am<>¤d· ence for' six months thereafter: Provided, That, owing to the heretofore m°m’ p' 8S' good conduct of the Mille Lao Indians, they shall not be compelled to remove so long as they shall not in any way interfere with or in any manner molest the persons or property of the whites. ARTICLE XIII. Female members of the family of any government C¢*l:¤?¤f¤{¤¤l¢¤ Pmpl0ye[e] residing on the reservation, who shall teach Indian girls do- lggghcislhm as mestic economy, shall be allowed and paid a sum not exceeding ten dollars per month while so engaged: Provided, That not more than one Proviso. thousand dollars shall be so expended during any one year, and that the President of the United States may suspend or annul this article whenever he may deem it expedient to do so. AIITICLE XIV. It is distinctly understood and agreed that the clear- Provision for ing and breaking of land for the Chippewas of the Mississippi, as pro- fgigbgtbgig vided for in the fourth article of this treaty, shall be in lieu of, all‘formcr lieu of fgrmgy engagements of the United States as to the breaking of lands for those P¤>ViS<>=’·· bands, and that this treaty is in lieu of the treaty made by the same V<>l·Xii-p·1249· tribes, approved March llth, 1853. In testimony whereof the said Wm. P. Dole and Clark W. Thompson, $ig¤¤¢¤¤<>· on behalf of the United States, and Chippewa chiefs, Hole·in-the-day and Mis-qua-dace, on behalf of Indians parties to this treaty, have here-