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 TREATY WITH THE PAIVN EES. SEPT. 24, 1857. 729 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A PROCLAMATION. ro Au. Ann smocnsa ro wnou rmasn PRESENTS snsm. comm, GREETINGZ `VHEREAS a treaty was made and concluded at Table Creek, in the Sept-24, 1857- Territory of Nebraska, on the twenty-fourth` day of September, one thou- UPESK sand eight hundred and fifty-seven, between the United States of America, by James W. Denver, commissioner duly authorized thereto, and the Chiefs and Head-men of the four confederate bands of Pawnee Indians, viz: Grand Pawnees, Pawnee Loups, Pawnee Republicans, and Pawnee Tappahs, and generally known as the Pawnee Tribe, which treaty is in the following words, to wit: Articles of agreement and convention made this twenty-fourth day of Title. September, A. D. 1857, at Table Creek, Nebraska Territory, between James W. Denver, commissioner on behalf of the United States, and the Chiefs and Head-men of the four confederate bands of Pawnee Indians, viz: Grand Pawnees, Pawnee Loups, Pawnee Republicans, and Pawnee Tappahs, and generally known as the Pawnee Tribe. ARTICLE I. The confederate bands of the Pawnees aforesaid, hereby Lendshefeby cede and relinquish to the United States, all their right, title, and interest ggggiobgcpgmg in and to all the lands now owned or claimed by them, except as hereinafter ed States. reserved, and which are bounded as follows, viz: on the east by the lands lately purchased by the United States from the Omahas; on the south by the lands heretofore ceded by the Pawnees to the United States; on the west by a line running due north from the junction of the North with the South Fork of the Platte River, to the Keha-Paha River; and on the north by the Keha-Paha River to its junction with the Niobrara, Deauqui court, or Running Water River, and thence, by that river, to the western boundary of the late Omaha cession. Out of this cession the Pawnees Reservation. reserve a tract of country, thirty miles long from east to west, by fifteen miles wide from north to south, including both banks of the Loup fork of the Platte River; the east line of which shall be at a point not further east than the mouth of Beaver Creek. If, however, the Pawnees, in conjunction with the United States agent, shall be able to find a more suitable locality for their future homes, within said cession, then, they are to have the privilege of selecting an equal quantity of land there, in lieu of the reservation herein designated, all of which shall be done as soon as practicable; and the Pawnees agree to remove to their new homes, thus reserved for them, without cost to the United States, within one year from the date of the ratification of this treaty by the Senate of the United States, and, until that time, they shall be permitted to remain where they are now residing, without molestation. ARTICLE II. In consideration of the foregoing cession, the United Payment to States agree to pay to the Pawnees the sum of forty thousand dollars per P*“V¤°°$· annum, for five years, commencing on the first day of January, A.- D. eighteen hundred and fifty-eight; and, after the end of five years, thirty thousand dollars per annum, as a perpetual annuity, at least one half of which annual payments shall be made in goods, and such articles as may be deemed necessary for them. vox,. xi. 'I‘neAr.—95