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 TREATY WITH THE CIIIPPEWAS. SEPT. 30, 1854.1111 ments and cattle, carpenter’s and other tools and building materials, and three thousand dollars for moral and educational purposes, of which last sum, three hundred dollars per annum shall be paid to the Grand Portage band, to enable them to maintain a school at their village. The United States will also pay the further sum of ninety thousand dollars, as the chiefs in open council may direct, to enable them to meet their present just engagements. Also the further sum of six thousand dollars, in agricultural implements, household furniture, and cooking utensils, to be distributed at the next annuity payment, among the mixed bloods of said nation. The United States will also furnish two hundred guns, one hundred rifles, five hundred beaver traps, three hundred dollars’ worth of ammunition, and one thousand dollars’ worth of ready-made clothing, to be distributed among the young men of the nation, at the next annuity payment. _ ARTICLE 5. The United States will also furnish a blacksmith and as- mmksmql S sistant, with the usual amount of stock, during the continuance of the and assistadt.·i.’ annuity payments, and as much longer as the President may think proper, at each of the points herein set apart for the residence of the Indians, the same to be in lieu of all the employees to which the Chippewas of Lake Superior may be entitled under previous existing treaties. ARTICLE 6. The annuities of the Indians shall not be taken to pay the mgwuitgg ,”°* debts of individuals, but satisfaction for deprcdations committed by them {O, gag; Sui shall be made by them in such manner as the President may direct. may be for dep- ARTICLE 7. No spirituous liquors shall be made, sold, or used on any ""l“t}‘{“" of the lands herein set apart for the residence of the Indians, and the sale Hq§g;Qm°uS of the same shall be prohibited in the territory hereby ceded, until otherwise ordered by the President. ARTICLE 8. It is agreed, between the Chippewas of Lake Superior Division beand the Chippewas of the Mississippi, that the former shall be entitled to *""*"“ Qhtglr. two thirds, and the latter to one third, of all benefits to be derived from gg;??,,?; 0g5i; former treaties existing prior to the year 1847. Superior of bcu- ARTICLE 9. The United States agree that an examination shall be Qgtgmgf f°’m°" made, and all sums that may be found equitably due to the Indians, for Anearages. arrearages of annuity or other thing, under the provisions of former treaties, shall be paid as the chiefs may direct. ARTICI.E 10. All missionaries, and teachers, and other persons of full Pr<>6r¤pti0¤· age, residing in the territory hereby ceded, or upon any of the reservations hereby made by authority of law, shall be allowed to enter the land occupied by them at the minimum price whenever the surveys shall be completed to the amount of one quarter section each. Auriomc 11. All annuity payments to the Chippewas of Lake Superior, Ammmes, how shall hereafter be made at L’Ansc, La Pointe, Grand Portage, and on paidthe St. Louis River; and the Indians shall not be required to remove from the homes hereby set apart for them. And such of them ad reside in the territory hereby ceded, shall have the right to hunt and fish therein, until otherwise ordered by the President. ARTICLE 12. In consideration of the poverty of the Bois Forte Indians Stipulations for who are parties to this treaty, they having never received any annuity gfx; F°“° m' payments, and of the great extent of that part of the ceded country owned exclusively by them, the following additional stipulations are made for their benefit. The United States will pay the sum of ten thousand dollars, as their chiefs in open council may direct, to enable them to meet their present just engagements. Also the further sum of ten thousand dollars, in five equal annual payments, in blankets, cloth, nets, guns, ammunition, and such other articles of necessity as they may require. They shall have the right to select their reservation at any time hereafter, under the direction of the President; and the same may be equal in extent, in proportion to their numbers, to those allowed the other bands, and be subject to the same provisions.