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 1054 TREATY WITH THE SHAWNEES. MAY 10, 1854. thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, as for those parties to the treaty of November seventh, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five.) * How said Anrxcnn 2.1 The two hundred thousand acres of land reserved by the fo°%g°:e;*;‘:;L“'° Shawnees, shall be selected between the Missouri State line, and a line parallel thereto, and west of thesame, thirty miles distant; which parallel line shall be drawn from the Kansas River, to the southernboundary line of the country herein ceded; provided, however, that the few families of Shawnees who now reside on their own improvements in the ceded country west of said parallel line, may, if they desire to remain, select there, the same quantity of land for each individual of such family, which is hereinafter provided for those Shawnees residing east of said parallel linethe said selection, in every case, being so made as to include the present improvement of each family or individual. Of the lands lying east of the parallel line aforesaid, there shall first be set apart to the Missionary So- Lands of Mo- ciety of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, to include the improve- 2;;dé’gc,]§‘;Sl°“' ments of the Indian Manual Labor School, three sections of land; to the 1;,.,,,,,65 Simp Friends Shawnee Labor School, including the improvements there, three nee Labor hundred and twenty acres of land;and to the American Baptist Mission- Sjgfgpicm Ba ary Union, to include the improvements where the superintendent of [ist M;,,;,,,,,,_,yP` their school now resides, one hundred and sixty acres of land ; also five Ulggu- acres of land to the Shawnee Methodist Church, including the meetingmmgxzzga house and graveyard; and two acres of land to the Shawnee Baptist Shawnee Lap. Church, including the meeting-house and graveyard. All the land selectml Cl““'°h· ed, as herein provided, west of said parallel line, and that set apart to the respective societies for schools, and to the churches before named, shall be considered as part of the two hundred thousand acres reserved by the Shawnees. How the lands All Shawnees residing east of said parallel line shall be entitled to, out '£L‘;f,;°é1°’°°° be of the residue of said two hundred thousand acres, if a single person, two ' hundred acres, and if the head of a family, a quantity equal to two hundred acres for each member of his or her family —to include, in every case, the improvement on which such person or family now resides; and if two or more persons or families occupy the same improvement, or occupy different improvements insuch close proximity, thatallof such persons 01: families cannot have the quantity of land (to include their respective improvements) which they are entitled to, and if in such cases the parties should be unable to make an amicable arrangement among themselves, the oldest occupant or settler shall have the right to locate his tract so as to include said improvements, and the others must make a selection elsewhere, adjoining some Shawnee settlement ; and in every such case, the person or family retaining the improvement, shall pay those leaving it, for the interest of the latter therein— the value of the same to be fixed, when the parties cannot agree thereupon, by such tribunal, and in such mode, as may be prescribed by the Shawnee Council, with the consent of the United States agent for that tribe. The privilege of selecting lands, under this provision, shall extend to every head of a. family, who, although not a Shawnee, may have been legally married to a Shawnee, according to the customs of that people, and adopted by them; and to all minor orphan children of Shawnees, and of persons who have been adopted as Shawnees, who shall not have received their shares with any family; and all incompetent persons shall have selections made for them adjacent, or as near as practicable, to their friends or relatives, which selections shall be made by some disinterested person or persons, appointed by the Shawnee Council, and approved by the United States Agent. In the settlement known as Black Bob’s Settlement, in which he has an improvement, whereon he 1 See Amendment, post, p. 1069. k
 * The clause in parentheses was struck out. See Amendment, post, p. 1059-