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 TREATY WITH THE CHOCTAWS AND CIIICKASAWS. JUNE 22, 1855. 615 ARTICLE 15. The Choctaws and Chickasaws shall promptly apprc- firgtradition of hcnd and deliver up all persons accused of any crime or offence  fmg; against the laws of the United States, or of any State thereof, who may {lm Sim; be found within their limits, on demand of any proper 0tHcer of 2. State, or of the United States. ARTICLE 16. All persons licensed by the United States to trade with  Payments by the Choctaws or Chickasaws, shall be required to pay to the respective 1*°°“”°d “”·d°“· tribes a moderate annual compensation for the land and timber used by them; the amount of such compensation, in each casa, to be assessed by the proper authorities of said tribe, subject to the approval of the United States agent. ARTICLE 17. The United States shall have the right to establish and Military Posts, maintain such military posts, post-roads, and Indian agencies, as may be g";*:;32gf;1a“‘g‘g deemed necessary within the Choctaw and Chickasaw country, but no cs€,,buShcd_ y greater quantity of land or timber shall be used for said purposes, than shall be actually requisite; and if; in the establishment or maintenance of such posts, post-roads, and agencies, the property of any Choctaw or Chickasaw shall be taken, injured, or destroyed, just and adequate compensation shall be made by the United States. Only such persons as arc, or may be in the employment of the United States, or subject to the jurisdiction and laws of the Choctaws, or Cliickasmvs, shall be permitted to farm or raise stock within the limits of any of said military posts or Indian agencies. And no oH`en¢1er against {hc laws of either of said tribes, shall be permitted to take refuge therein. ARTICLE 18. The United States, or any incorporated company, shall Rigpt of way have the right: of way for railroads, or lines of telcgraphs, through the 2L*“m‘;; d‘ ****1 Choctaw and Chickasaw country; but for any property taken or da- mp stroyed in the construction thereof; full compensation shall be made to the party or parties injured, to be ascertained and determined in such man ner as the President of the United States shall direct. AIITICLE 19. The United States shall, as soon as practicable, cause Boundméy to the eastern and western boundary lines of the tract of country described E; _L‘;‘5 “” in the lst article of this convention, and the western boundary of the ` Chickasaw district, as herein deinied, to be run and permanently marked. ARTICLE 20. That this convention may conduce as far as possible to General amthe restoration and preservation of kind and friendly feeling among the ¤°§ §Ytfb‘;:*"“” Choctaws and Cliickasmvs, a. general amnesty of all past offences, com- sm 1 ' mittcd within their country, is hereby declared. And in order that their relations to each other and to the United Only one ngcnt States may hereafter be conducted in a harmonious and satisfactory man- t° b° “pp°“‘t€d‘ ner, there shall be but one agent for the two tribes. Anrrcnm 21. This convention sluill supersede and take the place of all This many to former treaties between the United States and the Clxoctayvs, and also, of ?,“P°*`“€° *2* all treaty stipulations between the United States and the Chickasaws, and Qgwizcrgahai between the Choctaws and Chickasaws, inconsistent with this agreement, tau-s! and ull inand shall take effect; and be obligatory upon the contracting parties, from g*;';’:$?f;‘°(§L€Z{: the data hereof, whenever the same shall be ratified by the respective asmvs, 0,- becouncils of the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes, and by the President and '¢*¥¤¤¤ md Senate of the United States. tn25g' t wks ARHGLE 22. It is understood and agreed that the expenses of the rc- emm_°° ° Spective commissioners of the two tribes, signing these articles of agree- U Smeg m ment and convention, in coming D0, and returning from this city, and gaythe Commis while here, shall be paid by the United States. “°“°‘“‘ In testimony whereof, the said George W. Manypcnny, commissioner on the part of the United States, and the said commissioners on the part: of the Choctaws and of the Chickasaws, have hereunto set their hands and seals. Done in triplicate at tho city of Washington, on this twenty-sec0nd