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 TREATY WITH YANCTON TRIBE OF SIOUX. APRIL 19, 1858. 745 diture shall be made, due regard being had in making such determination to the best interests of said Indians. He shall likewise exercise the power to make such provision out of said sums as he may deem to be necessary and proper for the support and comfort of the aged or infirm, and helpless orphans of the said Indians. In case of any material decrease of said Indians, in number, the said amounts may, in the discretion of the President of the United States, be diminished and reduced in proportion thereto—or they may, at_the discretion of the President of the United States, be discontinued entirely, should said Indians fail to make reasonable and satisfactory efforts to advance and improve their condition, in which case, such other provision shall be made for them as the President and Congress may judge to be suitable and proper. 3d. In addition to the foregoing sum of one million and six hundred Subsistence. thousand dollars as annuities, to be paid to or expended for the benefit of Purchase of said Indians, during the period of fifty years, as before stated, the United St°°k’ &°' States hereby stipulate and agree to expend for their benefit the sum of fifty thousand dollars more, as follows, to wit: Twenty-tive thousand dollars in maintaining and subsisting the said Indians during the first year after their removal to and permanent settlement upon their said reservation; in the purchase of stock, agricultural implements, or other articles of a. beneficial character, and in breaking up and fencing land; in the erection of houses, storehouses, or other needful buildings, or in making such other improvements as may be necessary for their comfort and welfare. 4th. To expend ten thousand dollars to build a school-house or school- Schools and houses, and to establish and maintain one or more normal labor schools seh001.heuses. (so far as said sum will go) for the education and training of the children of said Indians in letters, agriculture, the mechanic arts, and housewifery, which school or schools shall be managed and conducted in such manner as the Secretary of the Interior shall direct. The said Indians hereby stipulating to kecp constantly thereat, during at least nine months in the year, all their children between the ages of seven and eighteen years; and if any of the parents, or others having the care of children, shall refuse or neglect to send them to school, such‘parts of their annuities as the Secretary of the Interior may direct, shall be withheld from them and applied as he may deem just and proper; and such further sum, in addition to the said ten thousand dollars, as shall be deemed necessary and proper by the President of the United States, shall be reserved and taken from their said annuities, and applied annually, during the pleasure of the President to the support of said schools, and to furnish said Indians with assistance and aid and instruction in agriculture and mechanical pursuits, including the working of the mills, hereafter mentioned, as the Secretary of the Interior may consider necessary and advantageous for said Indians; and all instruction in reading shall be in the English language. And the said Indians hereby stipulate to furnish, from amongst themselves, the indians to furnumber of young men that may be required as apprentices and assistants ’§;hf;*lPPIgS?;‘°°’» in the mills and mechanic shops, and at least three persons to work con-' stantly with each white laborer employed for them in agriculture and mechanical pursuits, it being understood tnat such white 1aborers and assistants as may be so employed are thus employed more for the instruction of the said Indians than merely to work for their benefit; and that the laborers so to be furnished by the Indians may be allowed a fair and just compensation for their services, to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, and to be paid out of the shares of annuity of such Indians as are able to work, but refuse or neglect to do so. And whenever the Pres- President may ident of the United States shall become satisfied of a failure, on the part gfj’;;‘;;“‘}gx_ a1' of said Indians, to fulfil the aforesaid stipulations, he may, at his discretion, Schools, discontinue the allowance and expenditure of the sums so provided and set apart for said school or schools, and assistance and instruction. von. x1. Tnmu.—-97