Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 11.djvu/723

 TREATY WITH THE MENOMONEES. FEB. I1, 1856. 679 FRANKLIN PIERCE, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. ro Am. AND SINGULAR ro wnom THESE PRESENTS suALL COME, onnnrrmcz Feb_ 11, 1g5S_ WHEREAS a treaty was made and concluded at Keshena, State of WVisconsin, on the eleventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, between Francis Huebschmann, commissioner on the part of the United States, and the Menomonee tribe of Indians, assembled in general council, which treaty is in the words and figures following, to wit : - Whereas a treaty was entered into at Stockbridge, in the State of Preamble. Wvisconsin, on the 1'ifth of the present month, between the United States of America on the one part, and the Stockbridge and Munsee tribes of Indians on the other, stipulating that a new home shall be furnished to the said Stockbridge and Munsee Indians, near the south line of the Menomonee reservation ; and Whereas the United States desire to locate said Stockbridges and Munsees near the said line in the western part of the said reservation, on lands on which no permanent settlements have been made by the Menomoneesg and Whereas there is no objection on the part of the Menomonees to the location of the Stockbridges and Munsees in their neighborhood, therefore, this agreement and convention has been entered into— Articles of agreement made and concluded at Keshena, State of Wiscon- Title. sin, on the eleventh day of February, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty-six, between Francis Huebschmann, commissioner on the part of the United States, and the Menomonee tribe of Indians, assembled in general council. ARTICLE 1. The Menomonee tribe of Indians cede to the United Cgssign Orland States a tract of land, not to exceed two townships in extent, to be select- to the U- SWG5- ed in the western part of their present reservation on its south line, and not containing any permanent settlements made by any of their number, for the purpose of locating thereon the Stockbridge and Munsee Indians, and such others of the New York Indians as the United States may desire to remove to the said location within two years from the ratihcation hereof AR·r1cLE 2. The United States agree to pay for the said cession, in Payment for case the said New York Indians will be located on the said lands, at the said gcssm, rate of sixty cents per acre; and it is hereby stipulated, that the monies so to be paid shall be expended in a like manner, to promote the improvement of the Menomonees, as is stipulated by the third article of the treaty of May twelfth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, for the expenditure of the forty thousand dollars which had been set aside for their removal and subsistence, west of the Mississippi, by the treaty of October eighteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight. ARTICLE 3. To promote the welfare and the improvement of the said Menomonees, and friendly relations between them and the citizens of the United States, it is further stipulated- 1. That in case this agreement and the treaties made previously with Laws may be the Menomonees should prove insufficient, from causes which cannot now g;(°0;°;h;hQ;f been [be] foreseen, to effect the said objects, the President of the United omonees.