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 TREATY WITH THE WINNEBAGO INDIANS. APRIL 15, 1859. 1101 TREATIES. Treaty between the United States and the Winnebago Tribe of Indians. Oorwluded, April 15, 1859. Ratified (ry the Senate, March 16, 1861. Proclaimed by the President of the United States, March 23, 1861. PROCLAMATION. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AP¥u15»18W· ro ALL Ann s11<cULAR ro wuou rnasn rnnsmurs SHALL comm, enmzrmc: WHEREAS a treaty was made and concluded at the city of Washing- Preamble. ton, the nfteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, by and between Charles E. Mix, commissioner on the part of the United States, and the hereinafter named chiefs and delegates of the Winnebago tribe of Indians, they being duly authorized thereto by said tribe, which treaty is in the words and Egures following, to wit: Articles of agreement and convention made and concluded at Wash- Contracting ington City, on the fifteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and fifty- Pm"' nine, by and between Charles E. Mix, commissioner on the part of the United States, and the following-named chiefs and delegates, represenb ing the Winnebago tribe of Indians, viz.: Baptiste Lassalleur, Little Hill, Little De-Corie, Prophet, `Wakon, Cone-hutta-kan, Big Bear, Rogue, Young Frenchman, One Horn, Yellow Banks, and O-o-kau, they being thereto duly authorized by said tribe. ARTICLE I. The Winnebago Indians having now more lands than E¤¤*¤'¤I¥>¤i0¤ are necessary for their occupancy and use, and being desirous of pro- g€;°Ql°i:g‘:;€°,,;X moting settled habits of industry and enterprise amongst themselves assigned in sevby abolishing the tenure in common by which they now hold their g;:Lt%f*&£;°m‘ lands, and by assigning limited quantities thereof, in severalty, to the ` members of the tribe, including their half or mixed blood relatives now residing with them, to be cultivated and improved for their own individual use and benefit, it is hereby agreed and stipulated that the eastern portion of their present reservation, embracing townships one hundred and six, (106,) and one hundred and seven, (107,) range twenty-four (24,) and one hundred and six, (106,) and one hundred and seven (107,) range twenty-tive, (25,) and the two strips of land immediately adjoining them on the east and north, shall be set apart and retained by them for said purposes; and that out of the same there shall be assigned to hggjiS¤¤¤¤¤¢¤ 0* each head of a family not exceeding eighty acres, and to each male person eighteen years of age and upwards, without family, not exceeding forty acres of land, to include, in every case, as far as practicable, a rea·· sonable proportion of timber ; one hundred and sixty acres of said retained lands in a suitable locality shall also be set apart and appropriated to the occupancy and use of the agency for said Indians. The lands to be so assigned, including those for the use of the agency, shall be in as regu-