The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-06-07
NASHVILLE TENNESSEE. SUNDAY, JUNE 7 1853.
By The President of he United States Of
ARerica.
A PROCLAMATION.
10 all and singular TO wh0Di these presents
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shall come greeting
WHEREAS Treaty was made and concluded at the
Kansas Agency, in the State Of Kansas, on the thr
teenth day Of March, in the year Of our LORD
eighteen hundred and sixty three, by and DO
tween II. W. FaTnsworth, Commissioner on the part
OF the United States, and the hereinafter named
Chiefs and Hcadmen Of the Kansas tribe OF Indians
representing said Indians and duly authorized thereto
by them, which treaty is IN tue words and figures
following, t0.wit
Whereas, a treaty was made and concluded at the
hRnEas Agency in The then Territory, but now state
Of kagsAs, the nth day Of October, A. D. 1859, by
and between Alfred B. Greenwood, Commi sioner on
the part Of the United States, aud the Chiefs and
Headmen representing the Kansas tribe Of Indians,
aud authorized by said tribe for that purpose which
treaty after having been submitted to the Senate Of
tine United States for its constitutional action there
on was duly accepted, ratified, and confirmed by the
President OF the United States on the seventeenth
day Of November, A. d. 1860, with an amendment
to tho fourth article thereof, which amendment, FIRST
pr posed and made by the Senate on the twenty
euth day q Juno, A. ID. 1861 afterwards agreed
to and ratified by the aforesaid Chiefs and Headmen
Of the Kansas Tribe of Indians on the fourth day Of
October Of the same year:
Row, therefore, II Is further agreed and concluded
on this thirteenth day Of March, A. D. 1862, by I'd
between H. W. tarnsworth, Commss o. er on The
port of the United States and the sad Kansas Tribe
Chiefs aud Hcadmen thereof, tO-wlt
Article 1st That the said treaty and the amend.
ment Their Of be further amended to provide that
a rir and reasonable value Ct the improvements made
by persons who settled on the diminish OF
said Kausas Indians between the second day of Sep.
TENDER, A. D. 1856, and the nth day of October, A.
d. 1852 shall be asceraned by the Secretary Of tho
Interior and certificates of indebtedness by said tribe
sh all be Issued by him TO each of such persons for an
amount equal to the appraisement of his or her inn
proyements, as aforesaid; and hat like certificates
shall be issued to the class of persons who settled on
said diminished reservation prior TO the second day
of December A. ID. 1885, for the amounts of the re-
spective claims as provided for and ascertained
der the provisions Of the amendment Of said treaty
and that like certificates be Issued to the owners Of
the same for the amounts Of claims which have been
examined and approved by the agent and auperin-
tendent and revised and confirmed by the Secretary
OF the Interior under the provisions Of the 9th ar-
Gle of said treaty. and that all sucA certificates shall
be receivable cash, TO the amount for which they
may be issued, in payment for lands purchased or
entered that part Of the first ned reservation
outside of said diminished reservation or any
part Of the diminished reservation, that may
hereafter be offered for sale or may be redeemed
when su proceeds have not theretofOrs been
made applicable to other purposes named in said
treaty.
desirous Of making suitable expression OF the obli
cations the said tribe are under to Thomas 5 HULA
ker for the many services rendered by Said Huaker
missionary teacher, and friendly counsellor ofslid
tribe Of Indians, hereby authorize and request the
Secretary Of the Interior TO convey to the said Thorn
as s. Hufflker the half section Of land which he
has resided, and improved, and cultivated since the
year A. D. 1851, ii being the south half Of section
eleven, (llO in township numbered sixteen Q6)
70 tn, range numbered eight (S) east Of the sixth
principal meridian, Kansas.
In testimony whereof, the said H. W. FarnswO IN,
Commissioner as aforesaid, and the said Chiefs and
Headmen of the kansas Tribe of Indians have here
Cyl the State of Kansas, the said thirteenth day
OF March In the year of our Lord thousand eight
hundred and sixty.two.
Inpresence Of