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 TREATY WITH THE TONAWANDA SENECAS. Nov. 5, 1857. 993 ARTICLE VI. Whenever a quantity of said lands, amounting to 6,500 Part of puracres, at the least, upon the terms hereinbefore provided, may be purchased, °h“€° m°“°Y. l° written notice, executed by the chiefs and headmen in council, and ac- Qacigicsted m knowledged before a justice of the supreme court of New York, or judge of the superior court of the city of Buffalo, shall be given to the Secretary of the Interior, whereupon the portion of said sum of $256,000, not expended in the purchase of lands, as aforesaid, shall be invested by the said Secretary of the Interior in stocks of the United States, or in stocks of some of the States, at his discretion; and the increase arising from such investment shall be paid to the said Tonawanda Indians, at the time and in the manner that the annuities are paid which said Indians are now entitled to receive from the United States. Aizrrcmc VII. It is hereby agreed that the sum of 3515,018.,%*0- “ im- “Impr¤v¤m¤¤¤ provement money," heretofore apportioned to the Indians upon the T0na· ;"°"(:fi;n;‘&b° wanda reservation, shall be again apportioned by an agent, to be appointed uggw, by the chiefs and headmen in council assembled, to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior, which agent shall make a report of such apportionment to the said Secretary of the Interior, and if he concur therein, the shares so ascertained shall be paid to the individual Indians entitled thereto, who shall surrender and relinquish to the said Ogden and Fellows, or the survivor of them, or their assigns, their improvements, and any balance remaining shall be paid to the chiefs and headmen of the band, to be disbursed by them in payment of the debts, or for the use of the band. The services of the agent, to be thus appointed, and all other expenses attending the execution of these articles, are to be paid by the United States out of any moneys coming to the Tonawandas. In testimony whereof the said Charles E. Mix, commissioner, as afore— Signatures, said, and the undersigned persons, representing the Tonawanda band of N"- @1867- Seneca Indians, have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year first above written. CHARLES E. MIX, Oommissioner. [L. s.] ISAAC x SHANKS, [L. s. JESSE x SPRING, [L. sg GEORGE x SKY, L. s. ELY S. PARKER. L. s. JABEZ x GROUND, [L. s. The foregoing instrument was, on the day of the date thereof, executed in our presence, and we have hereunto at the same time aiiixed our names as subscribing witnesses. JOHN H. MARTINDALE, FREDERICK F OLLET'I‘, WILLIAM G. BRYAN, C. B. RICH, LEANDER MIX, HENRY BITTINGER, NICHOLSON H. PARKER, (Z S Interpreter. Also, the following chiefs and headmen heartily concur in the foregoing articles in behalf of themselves and their people :- JESSE x SPRING, GEORGE x SKY, WM. x PARKER, SNOW x COOPER, JABEZ x GROUND, ISAAC x DOCTOR, JOHN x WILSON, ISAAC x SHANKS, JOHN x BIGFIRE, WILLIAM x MOSES, THOMSON x BLINKEY, DAVID x PRIN' I` UP, JAMES x MITTEN, BENJ. x JONAS, JOHN x JOSHUA, ADDISON x CHARLES, JAMES x WILLIAMS, JOHN x HATCH,