New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-15
THE DELAWARE TREATY.

The following are the main articls Of the Treaty
between our Government and the Delsware Indians,
conveying to the L.aveD worth, Pawpes and Western
RaihoaA Company all tbs. tract of land IN Kansas
known ss the Delaware Reservation, except eighty
acre. ,r caDita which will be set aside for the H.
diars after being located by the Commissioners The
Treaty. uas ratified on the 22d Of August last:
hpy,c,r3. The Delaware tribe of Indians, enter
aining the belief that the value Of their lan0s DC
enhanced by having a railroad passing tnrougn tueu
DR. sent reservation and being d lhe ogilou li'S ~
LeavenwOrtb, PawDee, and Western f;hifoad Nop-
many orpOrsted by an act OF the LegtltuVe aosen
bly Of Kantas T. rrtory. will have the afvinsge OIL
travel AID general transportation ov'r every oshsr
Company proposed 10 be formed, which win Iuu
thu ongh their lands have expressed tesire Una, tu
said Leavenworrh, Pawpee, and Western Rhirosd
Conn any shall have the preference of p1rihaslog cue
remainder of their lands after the tracts in seyerty
and tn, &c for the special objects herein ntned shf
have been selected aud set apart, np0n the pAyhen,
into the United States Treasury which payment 81 u
be made within six months after the quantity shall
have been ssceriained, IN gold or SILVER coin,
of such a sum as three COMMISSIONER 10 oe
al pointed by the Secretary OF the INTERIOR snail ap
Pm ice TO be the vsue of daDd ProDtded IN no eVent
tha the value be placed below the sum OF one dOlar
and twenty five cents per acre excusee OF the coS 9
rev Of the save And that the United States VIII
issue patent in fee.simpe TO sid company upon tns
ms yment 80 aforesaid for all their land remanlDg IN
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hat The wiehes OF tie Delawares sha be granted;
that they will accept Of The trust reposed upon them
and II at the ney resulting from such disposition OK
The Ian de aha be spoted OF aud applied IN ts man
ner provided for by the seventh and eighth articles OF
the Delaware treaty Of sixth May, thousand eight
hundred and yfour after expencinP suincleDt IN N
to enable them TO commence agricultural pursuits uhoer
fav orsbe crcumstaUces IL is also agreed that the
sad railroad company shall have the perpetual night OF
vsy over any por ion of The lands allotted TO the Dele
wares in severalty the payment OF just compen-
fation therefor in money, 70 the Respective parties
whose lsDos are crossed by the line OF railroad
ART. 4.-Whereas some years ago good many Of
the DeawaIes went down among the southern In
diana and IA there are still about two hundred Of the
there and az they have 10 believe they Will
torn foon it hereby agreed that elghy acres each
be ret apar for hem TO DO allotted 10 them as they re-
Turn ard certificates to be thea Esued TO them
IN lie same nauuer IA to those within
the reservation and in every respect to be governed
Inv n same rules and regulations prescribed for the
OF the Ian Ia reserved by the preceding art
icts that until they return the allotment set apart Tor
II EN- shall belong to the nation IN common.
ART. ,. There shall be reserved three hundred and
twenty acres of ground where the null, AMI school.
house and Ketchum's store now stand; three hundfed
az 8 twenty acres where the council house no" IL; one
hundred and sixty where the BAptlst mission now
il; one hundred and sixty acres where the agency
house now is; forty acres where the Methodist EpE-
coral Church South now Is; forty acres where the
Methodist Episcopal Church North no. Is; which sew
dsnosed of when The objects for which they ha We been
reserved shall have been accomplished in such manner
and fer such purposes as the Secretary Of the Interior
sha de'e mine to be just and equitable for the benefit
of the DelawSres.
ART g. BY article fourteen of the treaty between
the DeawaTes and United States, of May d, 1884,
ratified by the Senate July H. 1854 the Uolted States
bound htrself to protect them aud their rights ana
that whereas that depredatons OF various Kinds nave
Ieen committed urou them and their auds i. Is hereby
agreed hgt the United 5 ates shall pay them, within
weve months from the RAJ fcaOn of these articles OF
treaty al convection, $50 900 as indemnify for timber
that has been cut off their reservation by the whites,
and $50 as indemnity for ponies and cattle that nave
bt on stolen from them by the whites since their ast
treaty with the United States IL 10 further Stipulated
thai should tbs Senate OF the United States refuse this
article, it shall in no wise affect the validity OF Tue
other articles or DIT. udce the right Of the Delawares
TO appeal the Congoss OF the Uaed States Tor te
indemnities hereby agreed upon
Ii Ia further understood that at the treaty between
the Dalawares and the United States, maze September
% 1870 the boundary of the reservation thea set
auart for them ncu ded the Halibreed Kansas lands;
out il aer ard proved that the United States had pre-
vi, ualy ret apart these lands for the Hatbreed AVIS,
ard by that means they have been kept out OF the use
ard benefit of said lsnds i. is therefore, hereby
agreed that fair valuation shall be made by the
United States upon such lands, under the direction OF
the Secretary of the Interior aud that the amount OF
said valuation shall be paid the Delawares.
ART. I. In oors defatiOn Of the long and faithful
services of the chiefs of the Delaware Nation and Of
their Interpreter, who s also member of tue Nation,
II il further agreed that the said chiefs and Interpreter
shall have allotted each tract of and to be selected
by themselves and shall receive patent in fec simple
therefor from the President of the UOied States viz:
j. hn Conner principal chief go acres; Sar-coX-le,
Chief of the Turtle band, 320 acres; Rock a-to-Ta
chief of the Turkey band 80 acres Ne-con-hecon,
chef of the Wolf band, 800 acres; and Henry Ti5low
Interpreter 800 acres; the Ines of each tract 10 con-
form 10 the les al subdivisions of survey IL ia further
| agreed that from the money az paid the Delaware
iibe of nd8rs in accordance with Art No. 10 Of this
treaty the chiefs Of said tribe of Indians shall appro
pirate 81 500 the annual salary OF the counclmen Of
| Inc s6id Tribe of Indians,