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 TREATY WITII THE SIOUX. AUGUST 5, 1851. 957 IN EXECUTIVE SESSION, SENATE or THE UNITED STATES, June 23d, 1852. Resolved, (two thirds of the Senators present concurring,) That the Senate advise and consent to the ratification of the Articles of a Treaty made and concluded at Mendota, in the Territory of Minnesota, on the nfth day of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, between the United States of America, by Luke Lea, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and Alexander Ramsey, Governor and ex~o_]?Ecio Superintendent of Indian Affairs in said Territory, Commissioners duly appointed for that purpose, and the Med-ay-wa kan-toau and Wah-pay-koo-tay bands of Dakota or Sioux Indians with the following: AMENDMENTS: Strike out the third article of the treaty and add the following supplemental article. 1st. The United States do hereby stipulate to pay the Sioux bands Payxuent yo,. of Indians, parties to this treaty, at the rate of ten cents per acre, for S8-id ccssionthe lands included in the reservation provided for in the third article of the treaty as originally agreed upon in the following words: “ ARTICLE III. In part consideration of the foregoing cession and Tract or land relinquishment, the United States do hereby set apart for the future occu- *° be 56* wmpancy and home of the Dakota Indians, parties to this treaty, to be held by them as Indian lands are held, a tract of country of the average width of ten miles on either side of the Minnesota River, and bounded on the west by the Tchay-tam-bay and Yellow Medicine Rivers, and on the east by the Little Rock River, and a line running due south from its mouth to the Waraju River; the boundaries of said tract to be marked out by as straight lines as practicable, whenever and in such manner as the President of the United States shall direct: Provided, That said tract shall be held and occupied by said bands in com- To be Occu,,g_ mon, and that they shall hereafter participate equally and alike, in all ¢<l in 60mm0W the benefits derived from any former treaty between said bands, or either of them and the United States," which article has been stricken out of the treaty by the Senate. The said payment to be in lieu of said reservation : the amount when ascertained under instructions from the Department of the Interior to be added to the trust fund provided for in the fourth article. 2d. It is further stipulated, that the President be authorized, with the assent of the said bands of Indians, parties to this treaty, and as soon after they shall have given their assent to the foregoing article, as may be convenient, to cause to be set apart by appropriate landmarks and boundaries, such tracts of country without the limits of the eession made by the First article of the treaty as may be satisfactory for their future occupancy and home: Provided, That the President may, by the consent of these Indians, vary the conditions aforesaid if deemed expedient. Strike out of the Treaty the following article. ARTICLE VIII. “ The Hal{ZBreeds of the Sioux nation having failed and refused to avail themselves of the provisions for their benefit in the ninth and tenth articles of the treaty concluded at Prairie Du Chien, on the fifteenth of July, 1830, it is hereby agreed, at their request, that in lieu of the tract of land set apart for the occupancy of said Half-Breeds, there shall be paid to them by the United States, under the direction of the President, the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: ($150,000,) Provzded, That the non-ratification of this article shall in no manner affect the other provisions of this treaty." Attest—- ASBURY DICKINS, Secretary.