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and confirm the said treaty. -.
In testimony whereof, have caused the seal
of the United States to be hereunto affixed, and
have signed the same with my hand lii
Nf Done at the City of Washington this TWEEN
ty-third day of March, in the year of our
r.. ST. Lord eighteen hundred and sixty
and of the Independence of the United
yl. States of America the eighty-sixth.
By the President: .ag.- aH,..
WILLIAM II. SEWARD, Secretary OF State.
Treaty between the United States of America and
the Kansas Tribe of Indians. Concluded, Oc-
7tober S. 1859 Ratified by the Senate, June
81 1860 Proclaimed by the President OF the
United States, November II, 1850. g. Il
JAMES BUCHANAN PRESIDENT OF TILE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
To all and singular to whom these presents shall
come, GREETING: "r- ID
WHEREAS treaty was made and concluded at
the Kansas agency, in the Territory OF Kansas,
on the fifth day of October, eighteen hundred ana
fifty-nine, by and between Alfred b. Greenwood,
commissioner ON part of the United States, and
the hereinafter named chiefs and headrnen repre-
senting the Kansas tribe of Indians, being duly
authorized by said tribe, which treaty is in the
words and figures following, to wit:
Articles of agreement and convention made and
concluded at tie Kansas agency, in the Terrific
ry of Kansas, the fifth day of October, eigh-
teen hundred and fifty mime, by and between Al
fred B. Greenwood Commissioner on the part of
the United States, and the following named chiefs
and headmen representing the Kansas tribe of
Indians, to wit: Ke-hi-ga-wah Chufie, lsh-tal,a-
sa Ne-hoo- ia gah, Hi hi wat -gah, XII
he gah-c cha, Al-ca- wah-ho, Pah-hous ga tun-gah,
Ke-hah lah-la-hu, Ki-ha- gall-chu, Ee-le-sun-ga
Wah-S humga, ah-ti-inga, Pa,ha-ne-ga gala, Pa,
ta-gO, Cahulle, Ma-she-tum, Wa-no-ba-ga-ha,
She-ga-wa-sa, Mathis -pa-wa- cha, Ma shon-o -Pusha,
Ja-ha-sha- Watanga, Ki-he- ga tussa, and ka-la-
shawat- lumga, they being thereto duly autho-
rized by said tribe
ARTICLE 1. The Kansas Indians having now
In1fiS tlon for sir IA
ton and use, and being DESTROYS of promoting
settled habits of industry amongst themselves by
aboiishing the tenure i'll common by which they
hold their lands, and by assigning limited
quantities thereof in severalty to the members OF
their tribe, owning AN interest in their present
reservation, to be cultivated and improved for
their individual use and benefit, it is agreed and
stipulated that that portion of their reservation
commencing at the southwest corner of said re-
servation, thence north with the west boundary
nine miles, thence east fourteen miles thence
south nine miles, thence west with the south
boundary fourteen miles to the place of begin
ming, shall be set apart and retained by them for
said purposes, and that out of the same there
shall be assigned to each head of family not eX
ceeding forty acres, and to each member thereof
not exceeding forty acres, and to each single
male person of the age of twenty-one years and
upwards not exceeding forty acres of land, to in.
crude IN every case, as 1ar as practlcaoe reaso,
nable proportion of timber. One hundred and
sixty acres of said retained lands, in suitable To-
callty, shall also he set apart and appropriated to
the occupancy and of the agency of said Iu-
dians, and one hundred and sixty acres of said
lands shall also lie reserved tor the establishment
OF school for the education of the youth OF the
tribe.
ARTICLE II. The lands to be so ASSIGNED in
Guiding those for the of the agency, and those
reserved for school purposes, shall be in rcgu-
lar and compact a body as possible and to
admit of Il distinct and wel-deined exterior
boundary, embracing the whole of them, and any
intermediate portions or parcels of land or water
not Included in made part of the tracts assign
ed in severalty Any such intermediate parcels
OF land and water shall be owned BY the Kansas
tribe OF Indians in common, but in case of in
crease i'll the tribe, or other rendering it
necessary or eXpedient the said intermediate par
GELS of land shall be subject to distribution and
assignment in such manner as the Secretary of the
Interior shall prescribe and direct. The whole of
the lands assigned or unassigned in severslty,
embraced will in the said exterior boundary shall
constitute and be t.nown as the Kansas Reserva-
ton, within and over which all laws passed by
Congress, regulating trade and intercourse with
the Indian tribes, shall have full force and effect
And no white person, except such as shall be in
the employment of the United States, shall be al
lowed to reside go npon any portion of said
reservation without the written permission of the
superintendent OF Indian Affairs, or of the agent
for the tribe.
ARTICLE III. Said division and assignment of
lands TO the Kansas tribe of Indians in severaty
shall De made under the direction of the Secreta-
ry- OF the Interior, and when approved by him
shall be final and conclusive. Certificates shall
be issued by the commissioner of Indian Affairs
Tor the tracts so assigned specifying the names
of the individuals to whom they have been az
signed respectively and that they for the ex-
and descendants, and said tracts shall not be
alienated in fee, leased otherwise disposed Of
except to the United States or to other members
OF the tribe, under such rules and regulations as
may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Int
rior; and they shall be exempt from taxation, L.
Wy, sale, or forfeiture, until otherwise provided
by Congress. Prior to the issue of said certiti-
Gates, the Secretary of the Interior shall make
such rules and regulations, as he may deem ne
eessary and expedient respecting the disposition
OF any of said tracts, in of the death of the
person or persons to whom they may be as
signed, SO that the same shall be assured to the
families of such deceased persons: and should
any ofthe indians to whom tracts shall be as
signed abandon them, the said Secretary NAV
take such action in relation to the proper dispo-
s1tlon thereon as IN his Judgment may be neces-
ARTICLE ". For the purpose of procuring the
means of comfortably establishing the Kansas
tribe of Indians upon the lands to be ssigned to
them in sevcralty, by building them houses and
by furnishing them with agricultural implements,
STOCK animals, and other necessary aid and faci-
ties for commencing agricultural pursuits under
favorable circumstances, the lands embraced in
that portion not stipulated to be retained and di
vidcd as aforesaid shall be Sold under the Cirec-
ton OF the Secretary of the INTERIOR in parcels
not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres EACH
to the highest bidder for cash. the sale to be made
upon sealed proposals to be duly invited by pu.
bile advertisement, and should any of the tracts
SO to be sold have upon them Improvements of
any kind, which were made by or for the Indians,
or for government purposes, the proposals there
for must state the price for both the land and i'm
proYements, and it, after assigning to all the
members of the tribe entitled thereto, theirpro-
portions in severalty, there shall remain a sur
plus of that portion of the reservations retained
for that purpose outside of the exterior boun-
Diary line of the lands assigned in severalty, the
Secretary of the Interior shall be authorized and
empowered, whenever he shall think proper. to
cause such surplus to be sold in the same man
the other lands to be disposed of, and
the proceeds thereof to be expended for their be-
neft in such manner the Secretary of the In
terror may deem proper. Il
ARTICLE V. The Kansas tribe of Indians be-
ing anxious to relieve themselves from the bur