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 624 TREATY WITH OTTOVVAS AND CIIIPPEWAS, JULY 31, 1855. annually for ten years, to be distributed per capita in the usual manner for paying annuities. And the sum of two hundred and six thousand dollars remaining unpaid at the expiration of ten years, shall be then due and payable, and if the Indians then require the payment of said sum in coin, the same shall be distributed per capita in the same manner as an- _ _ nuities are paid, and in not less than four equal annual instalments. %?,;;,llj°“ FW}:. The sum of thirty-five thousand dollars in ten annual instalments ments. of three thousand and five hundred dollars each to be paid only to the Grand River Ottawas, which is in lieu of all permanent annuities to which they may be entitled by former treaty stipulations, and which sum shall be distributed in the usual manner per capita. Liabilities ARTICLE 3. The Ottawa and Chippewa Indians hereby release and g322d_ discharge the United States from all liability on account of former treaty stipulations, it being distinctly understood and agreed that the grants and payments hereinbefore provided for are in lieu and satisfaction of all claims, legal and equitable on the part of said Indians jointly and severally against the United States, for land, money or other thing guaranteed to said tribes or either of them by the stipulations of any former treaty or treaties; excepting, however, the rimit of fishing and encampment secured to the Chippewas of Sault Ste. Marie by the treaty of June 16, 1820. l“i"’P"°t°¤`$· ARTICLE 4. The interpreters at Sault Ste. Marie, Mackinac, and for the Grand River Indians, shall be continued, and another provided at Grand Traverse, for the term of five years, and as much longer as the President may deem necessary. 'rrib¤i_orgemi~ AIQTICLE 5. The tribal organization of said Ottawa and Chippewa flfiifgtééisgégfg Indians, except so far as may be necessary for the purpose of carrying ` into effect the provisions of this agreement, is hereby dissolved; and if at any time hereafter, further negotiations with the United States, in reference to any matters contained herein, should become necessary, no general convention of the Indians shall be called; but such as reside in the vicinity of any usual place of payment, or those only who are immediately Future matics interested in the questions involved, may arrange all matters between new mans, themselves and the United States, without the concurrence of other portions of their people, and as fully and conclusively, and with the same cffeet in every respect, as if all were represented. 'iw-eaty, when ARTICI,E 6. This agreement shall be obligatory and binding on the and Senate of the United States. In testimony whereof the said George IV. Manypenny and the said Henry C. Gilbert, commissioners as aforesaid, and the undersigned chiefs and headmen of the Ottawas and Chippewas, have hereto set their hands and seals, at the city of Detroit the day and year first above written. GEO. W'. MANYPENNY, [L. s.] HENRY C. GILBERT, [L. s.] Uominissioners on the part of the United States. J. Loom: Cnrmrrlu, S I,. Rrorrn M. Snrrri, BCM mm` Sault Ste. Maiie Bands. O-SHAW-NVAW-NO-KE-WAIN-ZE, chief, his x mark. [L. s.] WAIV-BO-JIEG, chief, his x mark. [L. s.] KAY-BAY-NO-DIN, chief, his x mark. [L. s.] O-LIAW-NO-BIAWV-NE, chief, his x mark. [L. s.] SHAYV-WAN, chief, his x mark. L. s.] PI-AW-BE-DAW-SUNG, chief, his x mark. [L. s.] IVAW-WE-GUN, headman, his x mark. [L. PA-NE-GWON, headman, his x mark. [L. s. BWAN, headman, his x mark. [L.
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