Squatter sovereign., 1855-09-25


commissioners shall be appointed--one by the
United States, and two by the Wyandott coun-
cil,-whose duty it shall be to cause any addi-
tional survey to be made that may be necessary,
and to make fair and just division and distri-
button of the said lands among all the individ-
uals and members of the Wyandott tribe /; SO
that those assigned to or for each shall, as
ly as possible, be equal in quantity, and also in
value, irrespective of the improvements there
on; and the division and assignment of the
lands shall be so made as to include the houses.
and, as far as practicable, the other improve
ments, of each person or family; be in as regu-
lar and compact form as possible; and include
those for each separate family all together.
The judgment and decision of aidcommission-
ers. on all questions connected with the division
and assignment OF said lands, shall be final.
On the completion Of the division and assign.
ment of the lands, as aforesaid, said commits
sioners shall cause plat and schedule to be
made, showing the lands assigned to each fam
lily individual and the quaptity thereof.
They shall also meke up carefully prepared
lists OF all the individuals and members of the
Wyandott tribe-those of each separate family
being arranged together-which lists shall ex-
hibit separately, first, those families the heads
Of which the commissioners, after due inquiry
and consideration, shall be satisfied are suffic-
ieRtly intelligent, competent, and prudent to
control and manage their affairs and interests,
and also all persons without families.
Second, those families the heads Of which
trusted with their shares OF the money, paya-
BILE under this agreement; and, third, those who
are orphahf, idiots, or insane. Accurate cop
les of the lists of the second and third of the
above classes, shall be furnished by the COM
missioners To the Wyandott council; whereup-
on said council shall proceed to appoint or des-
ignate the proper person or persons to be rec
ognised as the representatives. of those of the
second class, for the purpose of receiving and
properly applying the sums OF money due and
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| and also those who are TO be entrusted with the
guardianship OF the individuals Of the third
class, and the custody and management of their
| rights and interests the said acts or proceed
| ings of the council, duly authenticated, to be
| forwarded to the Commissioner of Indian Af-
fairs, and fled in this office and the same shall
| be annually revised by said council, until the
| payment of the last instalment of the moneys
| payable to the Wyandotts, under this agree
| nent, and such charge changes made there
| in, as may, from casualties or otherwise, be-
| come necessary such revisisns and changes,
| duly authenticated, to be communicated to, and
| subject to the approval OF, the Commissioner of
| Indian Affairs.
pare a list of all such persons and families,
among the Wyandott people, as may apply to
| be temporarily exempted from citizenship, and
! for continued protection and assistance from
| the United States and an Indian agent, as pro-
yided for in the first article of this agreement.
| The agent throug h and by whom such protec-
| tion and assistance is to be furnished, shall be
designated by the Commissioner OF Indian AZ
fairs. Gees s
| The aforesaid plat and schedule and list of
persons, duly authenticated by the commission
ers. shall be forwarded to the Commissioner of
Indian Affairs, and filed in his Office, and copies
of the said plat and schedule, and of the list of
persons temporarily exempted from citizenship
and entitled to the continued protection and as
sistance of the United States and an Indian
agent, duly attested by the commissioners, shall
i be filed by them in each of the secretary of the
I Territory OF Kansas, and the clerk of the coun-
/ ty in which the Wyandott lands are situated.
| ARTICLE a. On the receipt, by the Commits
sioner of Indian Affairs, of the plat and sched
ule, lists of persons, and of the first proceed
ings of the Wyandott council, mentioned in the
| next preceding article, patents shall be issued
by the general land office of the United States,
| under the advisement of the Commissioner of
| Indian Affairs, to the individuals Of the Wyan-
dott tribe, for the lands severally assigned to
them, as provided for in the third article of this
| agreement, in the following manner to wit =
To those reported by the commissioners to be
| entrusted with the contfol and management Of
their affairs and interests, the patents shall con-
tain an absolute and unconditional grant in fee
simple and shall be delivered to them by the
Commissioner Of Indian Affairs, as soon as they
can be prepared and recorded in the General
land office; but to those SO competent, the pat
ents shall contain an express condition, that
the lands are not to be sold or alienated for
period of five years and not then, without the
express consent Of the President of the United
States first being obtained and the said pat
ents may be withheld by the Commissioner of
Indian Affairs, so long as, in his judgement,
| their being so withheld may be made to operate
benehcially upon the character and conduct of
the individuals entitled to them.
None of the lands to be thus assigned and
patented to. the Wyandotts, shall be subject to
tax alton for period of five years from and at
| ter the organization of State government over
the Territory where they reside; and those of
| the incompetent classes shall not be aliened or
| leased for longer period than two years, and
shall be exempt from levy, sale, or forfeiture,
until otherwise provided by State legislation,
with the assent of Congress
ARTICLE 5. Disinterested persons, not to
| exceed three, shall be appointed by the Com
| missioner Of Indian Affairs, to make a just and
| fair appraisement of the parsonage houses, and
other improvements connected Herewith, on
| the Wyandott lands, belonging to the Methodist
| Episcopal Church, and the Methodist Episco-
! pal Church, South, the amounts of which ap-
| praisements shall be paid to the said churches,
respectively, by the individual or individuals
or the Wyandatt tribe, to whom the lands
which said houses and improvements are. shall
have been assigned undei the provisions of this
agreement; said payments to be made within
| reasonable time, ia one or more instatments, to
be determined by said appraisers and until
made In full, no patent or other evidence OF til
tie to the lands so assigned to said individual or
individuals, shall be issued or given to them.
ARTICLE g.. The Wyandott nation hereby
relinquish, and release the United States from,
all their. ights and claims TO annuity, school
moneys, blacksmith establishments, assistance
, ana materials, employment of an agentfor their
oenene, or any other object or thing, of ma
. s,onaI characeer, and from all the stipulations
ana guarantees OF that character, provided for
or contained in former treaties, az well as from
] any aad all other claims or demands whatso-
eyer, as nation, arising under any treaty or
transaction between them and the government
of the United States in consideration of which
release and relinquishment, the United States
| hereby agree to pay TO the Wyandott nation
| the sum Of three hundred and eighty thousand
dollars, to be equally distributed and paid to all
the individuals and members Of the said nation,
lin three ANIMAL instalments, payable in the
months of October, commencing the present
year the shares OF the families whose heads
the commissioners shall have decided not to be
competent and proper persons to receive the
| same, and those Of orphans, idiots, and insane