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 TREATY WITH THE KANSAS TRIBE OF INDIANS. Oc!. 5. 1859. 1111 Treaty between the United States of America and the Kansas Tribe of Indians. Uoncluded, Octoter 5, 1859. Ratified by the Senate, June 27, Proclaimed Ig the President of the Mzited States, November 17, JAMES BUCHANAN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ·ro Am. Ann smouran T0 wuom rumen ransnnrs smim. com-1, Gxnnrmcz October 6, 1859. WHEREAS a treaty was made and concluded at the Kansas agency, in the Territory of Kansas, on the fifth day of October, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, by and between Alfred B. Greenwood, commissioner on part of the United States, and the hereinafter named chiefs and headmcn representing the Kansas tribe of Indians, being duly authorized by said tribe, which treaty is in the words and figures following, to wit: Articles of agreement and convention made and concluded at the Kan- comming sas agency, in the Territory of Kansas, on the fifth day of October, eighteen D¤Y*i¢¤· hundred and fifty-nine, by and between Alfred B. Greenwood, commissioner on the part of the United States, and the following named chiefs and headmen representing the Kansas tribe of Indians, to wit: Ke—hi-ga-wah Chuffe, Ish-tal~a-sa, Ne-hoo·ja-in-gah, Ki-hi-ga-wat·te-in-gah, Ki-he-gahcha, Al-li-ca-wah-ho, Pah-hous-ga-tuu-gah, Ke-hah-lah-la—hu, Ki·ha-gahchu, Ee-le-sun·gah, Wah-pah-jah, K0-sab-mun-gee, Oo-ga-shama, Wah- Shumga, Wah-ti-inga, Wah-e-la.—ga, Pa-ha-ne-ga-la, Pa-ta-go, Cahulle, Ma-she-tum, Wa-no-ba-ga.··ha, She-ga·wa-sa, Ma-his-pa-wa—cha, Ma-shon- 0-pusha, Ja-ha-sha-watanga, Ki—he-ga—tussa, and Ka-la—sha-wat-lumga, they being thereto duly authorized by said tribe. ARTICLE I. The Kansas Indians having now more lands than are Portion or resnecessary for their occupation and use, and being desirous of promoting d°°B;° ““ settled habits of industry amongst themselves by abolishing the tenure in ,5;,,.,4 in Sway. common by which they now hold their lands, and by assigning limited MW _¢<> m¤¤*b°¤“¤ quantities thereof in severalty to the members of their tribe, owning an °f mb°‘ interest in their present reservation, to be cultivated and improved for their individual use and° benefit, it is agreed and stipulated that that portion of their reservation commencing at the southwest corner of said _ reservation, thence north with the west boundary nine miles, thence east B°“¤d*¤°*· fourteen miles, thence south nine miles, thence west with the south boundary fourteen miles to the place of beginning, shall be set apart and retained by them for said purposes, and that out of the same there shall be assigned to each head of a. family not exceeding forty acres, and to each Assignment;. member thereof not exceeding forty acres, and to each single male person of the age of twenty-one years and upwards not exceeding forty acres of land, to include in every case, as far as practicable, a reasonable 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 of said Indians, and one hundred and sixty Indian agency acres of said lands shall also be reserved for the establishment of a school md “°h°°l“· for the education of the youth of the tribe. ARTICLE II. The lands to be so assigned, including those for the use Land assigned of the agency, and those reserved for school purposes, shall be in as regu- £cf°’“P“°‘ lar and compact a body as possible, and so as to admit of a distinct and ’ well-defined exterior boundary, embracing the whole of them, and any