The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-11-29
NO. 1o9.

forcible entry of an inhabited house piracy; en.
bezzlcment by public officers, or by persons hireo
salaried, to the detriment Of their employers,
when these crimes subject toinfamous punish
ment.
ARTICLE xxx.
On the part of each country the surrender shall
be made only by the authority of the executive
thereof: The expenses OF detention and delivery
effected in virtue of the preceding articles shall
be at the cost of the party making the demand 81
ARTICLE Xxx.
The provisions of the atoregoing articles relat-
ing to the surrender cf fugitive criminals shall not
apply to offences committed before the date here
OF, norto those OF a political character.
ARTICLE XXI.
This convention is concluded for the term of
eight years, dating from the exchange of the rati-
icationS and if one year before the expiration OF
that period neither ofth contracting parties shall
have announced by an official notification, its in
tenfion to the other to arrest the operations OF
said convention, it shall continue binding for
twelve months longer, and so on, from year to
year, until the expiration of the twelve months
which will follow similar declaration, whatever
the time at which it may take place.
ARTICLE xXxu.
This convention shall be submitted on both
sides to the approval and ratification Of the re-
spective competent authorities of each OF the con-
tractng parties, and the ratifcations shall be ex-
changed at Caracas, as soon as circumstances shall
admit. ..
In faith whereof the respective penipotentia-
ries have signed the aforegoiug articles, in the
English and Spanish languages, and they have
hereunto affixed their SEALS
Done in duplicate, at the city of Caracas, this
twenty-seventh day of August in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty.
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And whereas the said treaty has been duly rati-
fled on both parts, and the respective ratifcations
of the same were exchanged in the city of Caracas
on the ninth day of August last:
Now, therefore, be it known that l. Abraham
Lincoln, President of the United States of Ameri-
Gu, have caused the said treaty to be made pubic,
to the end that the same and every clsuse and
article thereof may be observed and fulfilled by
the United States and the citizens thereof
In witness whereof, l have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the United States to
be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this
twenty-fiIth day of July, in the year of
Il. 81 our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and siXty-one aud of the independence
of the United States of America the
~ ABRAHA LINCOLN.
William II. Seward Secretary of State.
Treaty between tie United States of America and
the Arapahoe and Cheyenne Indins of the Up
per Arkansas River. Concluded, February 1S,
1761. Ratified, with amendment August g.
1861 Amendment accepted, October %, 1861.
Proclaimed, December 5, 1861.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
| PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
To all and Singular to whom these Presents
shall come, Greeting:
! Whereas, treaty made and concluded at
| Fo-t Wise, in the Territory of Kansas, ON the
eighteenth day of February, in the year one thou
sand eight hundred and siXty-one, by and between
| Albert &. Boone and Z. B. Culver, commission
the part of the United States, and the her.
after named chiefs and delegates of the confeder-
ed aribes of Arapahoe and Cheyenne Indians of
the Upper Arkansas River, they being duly
thoriZed thereto by said tribes which treaty is in
tine words and figures following, to wit
Articles of agreement and convention made
and concluded at Fort Wise, in the Territory Of
| Kansas on the eighteenth day of February, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
| siXty-one, by and between Albert e. Boone and
T. B. Culver commissioners on the part OF the
| United States, and the following named chiefs
| and delegates, representing the confederated
tribes of Arapahoe and Cheyenne Indians of the
| Upper Arkansas Eivcr, viz: Little Raven, Storm,
Shave Head, and Big Mouth, ION the part of the
| Arapahoes and Black Kettle, White Antelope,
| Namos, (on the part of the Cheyennes,) they
being thereto duly authorized by said confedera-
ted tribes of Indians.
! Article lst The said chiefs and delegates of
said Arapahoe and Cheyenne tribes of Indians do
hereby cede and relinquish to the United States
all the lands now owned possessed, or claimed
by them, wherever situated, except tract to be
reserved for the of said tribes located within
the following described boundaries, to wit: Be-
| ginning at the mouth of the Sandy Fork of the
Arkansas River, and extending westwardly along
| the said river to the mouth of Purgatory River;
thence along the west bank of the Pnrgatory
| of New Mexico; thence west along said bounda-
ry to point where line drawn due south from
point on the Arkansas River, five miles east of
the mouth Of the Huerfano River, would inter-
sect said northern boundary of New Mexico /;
thence due north from that point said bound
AIRY to the Sandy Fork to the place of beginning.
The Arapahoes and Cheyennes, being desirous
ofpromoting settled habits of industry and en-
terprise amongst themselves, by abolishing the
tenure in common by which they now hold their
lrnds, and by assigning limited quantities thereof
in severalty to the individual members of the re-
| spective tribes to be cultivated and improved
for their individual use and benefit, ii is hereby
agreed and stipulated that the tract of country
contained within the boundary above described,
shall be set apart and retained by them for the
| purposes aforesaid
| According to an understanding among them
selves, it is hereby agreed between the United
States and the said tribes that the said reservation
shall be surveyed and divided by line to be run
due north from point on the northern boundary
! of New Mexico, fifteen miles west of the Purga.
tory River, and extending to the Sandy Fork of
the Arkansas River, which said line shall estab-
| lish the eastern boundary of that portion of the
reservation to be hereafter occupied by the Chey-
ennes, and the western boundary of that portion
o said reservation to be hereafter occupied by the
Arapahoes.
ARTICLE I'd. Out of the lands so set apart and
retained there shall be assigned to each member
of said tribes, without distinction of age or sex,
tract of forty acres, to include in every case as
far practicable, reasonable portion of timber
and water; one hundred and sixty acres of said
retained lands shall also be set apart and appro.
priated t. the and occupancy of the agent,
ior the time 0elng, OF & salo LrlDes ana one nun.
each division of the retained tract for the estab
lishment and support of schools for the education
of the youth of the tribes. 10
| The location of the tract, the assignment of
which provided for in this article, shalt be made
in as regular and compact a manner as possible,
and SO as to admit of a distinct and wendefned
exterior boundary, embracing the whole of them,
and any intermediate portions of parcels of land
water included in or made part OF the tracts
assigned in severalty. =, 80
| All such intermediate parcels of land and water
shall be owned in common by the tribe occupying
that portion of the reservation within the limits
of which said parcels of land and water may be
included but in case OF increase ID the tribe, or
other cause rendering it necessary or expedient,
the said intermediate parcels of land shall be sub
iect to distribution and assignment In such manner
as the Secretary of the Interior may prescibe and
direct
The whole of the lands, assigned and unassign-
| ed, embraced within the exterior boundary here
| in designated shall constitute and be known as
i the Reservation of the Arapahoes and Cheyennes
of the Upper Arkansas and all laws which 81, haze Ne
nited States regulating trade and intercourse with
Indian tribes, shall have full force and effect over
the same, and no white person, except as shaM pe
| in the employment OF the United states, sneH pc
| allowed to reside go upon any portion OF salo