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 664 TREATY WITII THE STOCKBRIDGES AND MUNSEES. FEB. 1856. Whereas the United States are willing to exercise the same liberal policy as heretofore, and for the purpose of relieving these Indians from the complicated diliiculties, by which they are surrounded, and to establish comfortably together all such Stockbridges and Munsees—-wherever they may be now located, in Wisconsin, in the State of New York, or west of the Mississippi-as were included in the treaty .0f September third, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, and desire to remain for the present under the aternal care of the United States government; and for the purpose of enldbling such individuals of said tribes as are now qualified and desirous to manage their own affairs, to exercise the rights and to perform the duties of the citizen, these articles of agreement have been entered into : 'fi*J<=· Articles of agreement and convention made and concluded at Stockbridge in the State of Wisconsin, on the fifth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, between Francis Huebschmann, commissioner on the part of the United States, and the Stockbridge and Munsee tribes of Indians assembled in general council, and such of the Munsees who were included in the treaty of Vol. vii. p. 580- September third, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, but are yet residing in the State of New York, b their duly authorized delc ates, William Mohawk and Joshua Willson. y g I rgcssgpnpf ck I Arctionn I. The Stockbridge and Munsee tribes, who were included ,0*;,,,,;*8, Wisgcm in the treaty of September third, one thousand eight hundred and thirty— 5i¤,3,];d in Min. 111118, and all the individual members of said tribes, hereby Jomtly and ¤¤¤S¤*¤¤· severally cede and relinquish to the United States all their remaining V°l· VH- P- E"- right and title in the lands at the town of Stockbridge, State of Wisconsin, the seventy-two sections of land in Minnesota set aside for them by VOL iX- P·955· the amendment to the treaty of November twenty-fourth, one thousand _ _ eight hundred and forty-eight, the twenty thousand dollars stipulated to be lngghgiluéiliguin paid to them by the said amendment, the sixteen thousand five hundred payments and dollars invested by the United States in stocks for the benefit of the °l*““‘· Stockbridge tribe in conformity to Article IX. of the said treaty, and all claims set up by and for the Stockbridge and Muusce tribes, or by and for the Munsces separately, or by and for any individuals of the Stockbridge tribe who claim to have been deprived of annuities since the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and all such and other claims set up by or for them or an of them are hereb abrogated, and the United States released and dischdrged therefrom. y Another tract Anrrons II. In consideration of such cession and relinquishment by 2;;*:. ¤°;:<:;°;£;>; said Stocklpiidgesdand Muxfees, the Uniftefl Sltates agigae to sfelgzt as SOOH mentlto be mms, 3S practice e, an to give them a tract o an in the tate o isconsin, near the southern boundary of the Menomonee reservation, of sufficient extent to provide for each head of a family and others lots of land of eighty and forty acres as hereinafter rovided; ever such lot to contain at least one half of arable land, and {fo pay to be exjpended for improvements for the said Stockbridges and Munsees, as provided in Article IV., the sum of fort -one thousand one hundred dollars, and a further sum of twenty thousandyfive hundred and fifty dollars to enable them to removc.* Survey ofsuch ARTICLE IH. As soon as practicable after the selection of the lands ¤`¤°” Md ¤“°°· set aside for these Indians by the preceding article, the United States mul th°”°°£ shall cause the same to be surveyed into sections, half and quarter sections, to correspond with the public surveys, and the council of the Stockbridgcs and Munsees shall under the direction of the Superintendent of Indian Adairs for the northern superintendency, make a fair and just allotment among the individuals and families of their tribes. Each head of a family shall be entitled to eighty acres of land, and in case his or her lamily consists of more than ibur members, if thought expedient by the
 * See mnendxnent for provision for further payment of $18,000 for debts, &c., post, p. 75.