Santa Fe weekly gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 185?-1859, 1856-05-03
SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO, MAY 8, 1856.

or B0ndv, and keahco.Woh, or Buffalo Miami
Indians, residents of the State Of Indiana. being
present, and asserting, approving, sgreeing to,
and confirming said articles of agreement and
convention.
Article |. The said Miami Indians hereby
cpde nnd convey to the United States. all that
certain tract of country set apart and assigned
to the said tribe. by the article added hv tbr
Senate os the United States, by resolution Of
tee date Of Fphrun twenty fifth. one thousand
cght hundred aud rnrty one. to tn, treaty of
Novcmhcr twenty eighth. one thousand eight
hundred aud fury. and den minated monc The
amendments Of the Senate as article l2. which
was ussontcd tu by snid Indians. ON the fifteen.
tn day Of Nav, one thousand eight hundred and
fortv ono, which tract is designated in said hr
ticlc, ms bounded on the east bv the State Of
Missouri. and on The north hv the countrr of
the WcNs and pionkcshaws, on the west hv the
pottow0tomies Of Indnna. unA ON the south hy
the Mud nssigucd 10 the New York Indians es.
tmatel to c,ntnin five hundred thousand acres
cycortng and roscryng thprcfrom sevonty
thousand acres for their futures homes. and al
so sccton Of six hundred and forty acres for
school purposes. to hn selected nnh assigned to
said trip as hcainaftcr provided.
ArtcNr 2, The United Sta'es shall ms soon
~ it can conveniently br done, cause the lands
hprain coded and rcser, ed, to he SURVEYED rs
the government lands are surveyed. the Miomis
hearing the expense of survey Of the several
land. md within four months after the hrpro.
val Of such surveys, oach individual or head of
fnmilv of the Miami tribe. now residing on
said nnd., sholI select. IL single person. rwo
hundred acres: and il the head Of family n
quantity equal to two hundred acres for each
member of the fmiDy: which selections shall be
so made rs to inclu ie in cach easel as far as
practicable. the present residences and iupro.
yemcnts Of cach person. or family, and, where
it is not practicable, the selection shall fall on
lands in the same neighhorhood. And #, by
reason or absence ar otherwise. any sinclcper
son or herd Of family. cnttl, ID to lands rs Il.
forctaid. shall fail .omnkc his or her sccc-
| tion within the perind prescribed, the chiefs 0f
the tribe shall posped to select the lands for
those thus in default The chiefs shall n'so SO.
rct tho six hundred and forty acres hercinhe.
fore reserved for their schoolrhroses, and to
embrace sufficient portion Of tmbpnland. AZ.
ter MI Of the before named selections shall have
hccu made. the sal chiefs shall further pro
seed TO select, in compact bodv, and cont
guos to .hc individual reservations, thc r6Sidnj
Of the seventy thousand acres excepted md rc.
served by the preceeling article, which boil of
land Shall be held Ns the common property oI
the tribe; but mnv at any time, wheu the che
is and a moiortv Of the tribe request it, bt
sold by the President, in the manner that pu
bile lands OF thc United States are sold, onC
proceeds. after lcducting the expense o
sale, he paid 90 the tribe, under the direction
OF the President, and in such mode 0s he maj
prescribe: Provided, That if any single rersol
or family entitled to land, shall have been ov
crIookcd, or wrongfulIy excluded. and shoI
make the fact appear to the satisfaction Of thu
chiefs, such person or family may, with tho ap
probOtion o. the commissioner Of Indian offairs
receive their quantity, by the RUE prescrihed il
this article, out Of the trnotto be thus selected
and held as the common property Of the tribe
All the selections herein provided for, shall, n
far as practicable, be made in conformity will
the legal subdivisions Of United States lands
anl immediately reported to the agent Of tn
tribe. with apt descrirtions Of the same, AM
III" President may cause patents to issue tt
single persons or heads Of families for the Ian
DIS Selcctcdby or for them, subject to such res
trctionS rcSrccting leases and alienation as th
President or Congress of the United State
NAV impose, and the binds so patented shoIIno
he Liable to lew. sale, execution. or forfeiture
Provided That the legislature Of n state With
which the coded country may bo hereafter en-
hroced, may with the assent Of Congress, 70
move these restrictions. When selections ar
so made, or ATTEMPTED to be made, as to PRO
ducc injury to, or controversies between indivi
''ualS, which connot he settled by 'hc pHrtic'
the mrtters of difficulty shall he investigate
and decided on equitable terms hy the chief
of the tribe, subject to appeal to the agen
whose decision shall hp final
Article 3. In consideration oc the rrsSio
heroinhcforc made, the United States agree
pay to the Miami tribe Of Indians the sum {
two hundred 'housand dollars in manner a
follows. viz: twenty annual instompnts Of SC
ven thousand five hundred dollars each. the fr'
payable an tho first lay Of October, one thor
sand eight hundred md sixty. md the remain