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 XTKITED 8TÀTE3 V, BBBB?, 787 �agents, and employes of the govemment as may bë author- ized to enter upon said Indian reservation in discharge of duties enjoined by law, shall ever be permitted toi pass over, settle upon, or reside in the territory described in this article, except as herein otherwise provided." Article 2. �Another provision of the treaty declares that "if bad men among the whites, or among other people subject to the au- thority of the United States, shall commit any wrong upon the person or property of the Indians, the United States will, upon proof made to the agent, and f orwarded to the commis* sioner of Indian affaira at Washington City, proceed ai once to cause the offender to be arrested and punished according to the laws of the United States, and also re-imburse the in- jured person for the loss sustained." Article 6. �The same article further provides for the punishment, according to the laws of the United States, of any person among the Indians who shall commit a wrcng or depredation upon the person or property of any one, white, black, or In- dians, sabject to the authority of the United States, and at peaee therewith. �Another provision declares that congress shall provide for protecting the rights of Indian settlers in their improve- ments, and may fii the character of the title held by each. And still another declares that the United States may pass such laws on the subject of alienation and descent of prop- erty, and on subjects connected with the govemment of the Indians on said reservation, and the internai police thereof, as may be thought proper. AU these and many other pro- visions of the treaty necessarily require for their enforce- ment that the reservation shall remain under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States. Indeed, to hold that the jurisdiction of the United States over said reserva- tion is Buperseded by that of the state, would be to render nugatory neariy every provision of the treaty. When we remember that the policy of keeping the Indian reservations •within the exclusive jurisdiction of the national govemment, until such time as the rights of the Indians therein are ex- tingnished by treaty, has been uniformly pursued with ����