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 1064 TREATY WITH THE MENOMONEE INDIANS. MAY 12, 1854. , FRANKLIN PIERCE, M¤y12,1$54- PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. TO ALL AND SINGULAR TO wnom rmcsn rnmsnnrs srrsm. comm, Gnnnrme: WHEREAS, a treaty was made and concluded at the Falls of Wolf River, in the State of Wisconsin, on the twelfth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, between the United States of America, by Francis Huebschmann, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, duly authorized thereto, and the Menomonee tribe of Indians, by the chiefs, headmen, and warriors of said tribe-—such articles being supplementary and amendatory to the treaty made between the United States and said tribe on the eighteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and forty- eight; which treaty is in the words following, to wit: -— Articles of agreement, made and concluded at the Falls of Wolf River, in the State of 'Wisconsin, on the twelfth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, between the United States of America, by Francis Huebschmann, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, duly authorized thereto, and the Menomonee tribe of Indians, by the chiefs, headmen, and warriors of said tribe--such articles being supplementary and amendatory to the treaty made between the United States and said tribe on the eigh- Vol. ix. p. 962. teenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight. Whereas, among other provisions contained in the treaty in the caption Preamble_ mentioned, it is stipulated that for and in consideration of all the lands owned by the Menomonees, in the State of Wisconsin, wherever situated, the United States should give them all that country or tract of land ceded by the Chippewa Indians of the Mississippi and Lake Superior, in the treaty of the second of August, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and by the Pillager band of Chippewa Indians in the treaty of the twenty-first of August, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, which had not been assigned to the Winnebagoes—guarantied not to contain less than six hundred thousand acres; should pay them forty thousand dollars for removing and subsisting themselves; should give them fifteen thousand dollars for the establishment of a manual labor school, the erection of a grist and saw mill, and for other necessary improvements in their new country; should cause to be laid out and expended in the hire of a miller, for the period of fifteen years, nine thousand dollars ; and for continuing and keeping up a blacksmith shop and providing iron and steel for twelve years, commencing on the iirst of January, eighteen hundred and fifty- seven, eleven thousand dollars. And whereas, upon manifestation of great unwillingness on the part of said Indians to remove to the country west of the.Mississippi River, upon Crow Wing, which had been assigned them, and a desire to remain in the State of Wisconsin, the President consented to their locating temporarily upon the Wolf and Oconto Rivers. Now, therefore, to render practicable the stipulated payments herein recited, and to make exchange of the lands given west of the Mississippi for those desired by the tribe, and for the purpose of giving them the same for a permanent home, these articles are entered into. ARTICLE 1. The said Menomonee tribe agree to cede, and do hereby (gm;,,,,,,, . cede, sell, and relinquish to the United States, all the lands assigned to United States. them under the treaty of the eighteenth of October, eighteen hundred and forty-eight.