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964 TREATY WITH THE STOCKBRIDGE INDIANS. Nov. 24, 1848. Am¢¤d°d bf In Executive Skssion, Smale of the United States, llfarch Ist, 1849. the Senate, Mu. hh 1849- Resolved, (two thirds of the Senators present concurring,) That the Senate advise and consent to the ratification of the articles of agreement and treaty made and concluded at Stockbridge, in the State of Wisconsin, on the 24th day of November, in the year of our Lord 1848, by and between Morgan L. Martin and Albert G. Ellis, commissioners on the part of the Uuitqd States of America, and the Stockbridge tribe of Indians, with the following ALIENDLIBNT. Add the following as supplemental articles : Whereas the Stockbridge and Munscc Indians consider that they have as claim against the United States for indemnity for certain lands on White River in the State of Indiana, and for certain other lands in the Stale of Wisconsin, which they allege they have been deprived of by treaties entered into with the Miamies and Delawares, or to the lands claimed by them in Indiana, and with the Menomonees and Winncbagoes, or to the lands in Wisconsin, without their consent; and whereas the 'said Stockbridge and Munsec Indians, by their chiefs and agents, have continued to prosecute their said claims during the last twenty years at their own expense, except the sum of three thousand dollars paid them in 1821; and whereas it is desirable that all ground of discontent on Payment for re- the part of said Indians shall be removed, the United States do further U¤?q¤i?*&i¤8 ¢¤· stipulate, in consideration of the relinquishment by them of said claims, um ° ams' and all others, except as provided in this treaty, to pay to the sachcms or chiefs of said Indians, on the ratification of this article by them, with the assent of their people, the sum of five thousand dollars, and the further sum of twenty thousand dollars, to be paid in ten annual instalments, to commence when the said Indians shall have selected and removed to their new homes, as contemplated by the seventh article of this treaty. The President of the United States, within two years from the ratification of this treaty, shall procure for the use of said Stockbridge Indians a quantity of land west of the Mississippi River, upon which they shall reside, not less than seventy-two sections, said Indians to bc consulted as to the location of said land, and to be holden by the same tenure as other Indian lands. I AMES K POLK. By the President. Jmns Bucnmm, Secretary of Bute.