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512 TREATY WITH THE IOWAS, ETC. 1836. U. S. to pay States towards the Ioways and band of Sacks and Foxes of the Mis- “¤P*°¤¤m» souri, and as an evidence of the sense entertained for the good will $7’500` manifested by said tribes to the citizens and Government of the United States, as evinced in the preceding cession or relinquishment, the undersigned, William Clark, agrees on behalf of the United States, to pay as a present to the said Ioways and band of Sacks and Foxes, seven thousand five hundred dollars in money, the receipt of which they hereby acknowledge. Land assigned Anrrcma 2. As the said tribes of Ioways and Sacks and Foxes, have W I¤di¤¤$ S<>¤¤h applied for a small piece of land, south of the Missouri, for a permanent gvzlle M‘”°‘m home, on which they can settle, and request the assistance of the Go- ` vernment of the United States to place them on this land, in a situation at least equal to that they now enjoy on the land ceded by them : Therefore I, William Clark, Superintendent of Indian Atfairs, do further agree on behalf of the United States, to assign to the Ioway tribe, and Missouri band of Sacks and Foxes, the small strip ofland on the south side of the Missouri river, lying between the Kickapoo northern boundary line and the Grand Nemahar river, and extending from the Missouri back and westwardly with the said Kickapoo line and the Grand Nemahar, making four hundred sections; to be divided between the said Ioways and Missouri band of Sacks and Foxes, the lower half to the Sacks and Foxes, the upper half to the Ioways. U. S. to erect Anrrcm 3. The Ioways and Missouri band of Sacks and Foxes h°“”§· °“°l95° further agree, that they will move and settle on the lands assigned them Ergbgérfggléh in the above article, as soon as arrangements can be made by them; l and the undersigned William Clark, in behalf of the United States, agrees, that as soon as the above tribes have selected a site for their villages, and places for their fields, and moved to them, to erect for the Ioways five comfortable houses, to enclose and break up for them two hundred acres of ground; to furnish them with a farmer, a blacksmith, sohoolmaster, and interpreter, as long as the President of the United States may deem proper; to furnish them with such agricultural implements as may be necessary, for five years; to furnish them with rations for one year, commencing at the time of their arrival at their new homes; to furnish them with one ferry-boat; to furnish them with one hundred cows and calves and five bulls, and one hundred stock hogs when they require them; to furnish them with a mill, and assist in removing them, to the extent of five hundred dollars. And to erect for the Sacks and Foxes three comfortable houses; to enclose and break up for them two hundred acres of ground; to furnish them, with a farmer, blacksmith, schoolmaster, and interpreter, as long as the President of the United States may deem proper; to furnish them with such agricultural implements as may be necessary, for frve years; to furnish them with rations for one year, commencing at the time of their arrival at their new home; to furnish them with one ferry-boat; to furnish them with one hundred cows and calves and five bulls, one hundred stock hogs when they require them; to furnish them with a mill; and to assist in removing them, to the extent of four hundred dollars. Trsatybgnding Awrrcmr 4. This treaty shall be obligatory on the tribes, parties when ratified. hereto, from and after the date hereof, and on the United States from and after its ratification by the Government thereof Done and signed and sealed at Fort Leavenworth, on the Missouri, this seventeenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and of the Independence of the United States the sixty-first. WM. CLARK, Su. In. Af}:.