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 TREATY WITH THE DELAWARE INDIANS. MAY 30, 1860. 1131 soon, it is hereby agreed that eighty acres each be set apart for them, to be allotted to them as they return, and certificates to be ther; issued to them, in the same manner as to those now within the reservation, and in every respect to be governed by the same rules and regulations as prescribed for the government of the lands reserved by the preceding articles, that until they return the allotments set apart for belong to the nation in common. ARTICLE V. There shall be reserved three hundred and twenty acres Buernticnn. of ground where the mill, and school·house, and Ketchum’s store now stand; three hundred and twenty acres where the council-house now is; one hundred and sixty acres where the Baptist mission now is; one hundred and sixty acres where the agency house now is; forty acres where the Methodist Episcopal Church South now is; forty acres where the Methodist Episcopal Church North now is; which several tracts, with the improvements thereupon, shall be disposed of when the objects for which When to be they have been reserved shall have been accomplished, in such manner dl“P°’°d °£ and for such purposes as the Secretary of the Interior shall determine to be just and equitable, for the benefit of the Delawares. Anrrcrn VI. By article fourteen of the treaty between the Delawares Wl- X- P- l05L and the United States, of May six, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, ratified by the Senate July eleven, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, the United States bound herself to protect them and their rights; and that whereas, that depredations of various kinds have been committed upon them and their lands, it is hereby agreed that the United States shall pay them, United States within twelve months from the ratification of these articles of treaty and xuggaxm convention, thirty thousand dollars as indemnity for timber that has been upgu Indian, cut off their reservation by the whites, and nine thousand five hundred dollars as indemnity for ponies and cattle that have been stolen from them by the whites since their last treaty with the United States. It is further stipulated that should the Senate of the United States refuse this Promo article, it shall in no wise affect the validity of the other articles, or preju- ° dice the right of the Delawares to appeal to the Congress of the United States for the indemnities hereby agreed upon. _ _ It is further understood that, at the treaty between the Delawares and m1L'°‘g;g”° #22 the United States, made September twenty-four, eighteen hundred and 18297 vgfv;;_ twenty-nine, the boundary of the reservation then set apart for them in- p· 327- eluded the Half·breed Kansas lands; but it afterwards proved that the United States had previously set apart these lands for the Halfibreed Kaws, and by that means they have been kept out of the use and benefit U,,;;,,,; Sum of said lands; it is, therefore, hereby agreed that a fair valuation shall {crazy fcrcertain be made by the United States upon such lands, under the direction of the m ' Secretary of the Interior, and that the amount of said valuation shall be paid the Delawares. _ _ Anrrcmc VII. In consideration of the long and faithful set-vices of the _ ghe cpwfs nad chiefs of the Delaware nation, and of their interpreter, who is also a lg bffffllrggfx member of the nation, it is further agreed that the said chiefs and inter- Imc. preter shall have allotted to each a tract of land, to be selected by themselves, and shall receive a patent in fee-simple therefor from the President of the United States, viz: John Connor, principal chief; six hundred and S John Connor, forty acres; Sar-cox-ie, chief of the Turtle band, three hundred and Rzzgfgggvhp twenty acres ; Rock-a-to-wha, chief of the Turkey band, three hundred Ng-qqu-`hp.;;;;;, and twenty acres; Ne·con—he-con, chief of the Wolf band, three hundred Hem? T1bl¤W· and twenty acres; and Henry Tiblow, interpreter, three hundred and twenty acres ; the lines of each tract to conform to the legal subdivisions of survey. It is further agreed that, from the money as paid the Delaware tribe of Indians, in accordance with article number ten of tlus treaty, Annupémsalary the chiefs of said tribe of Indians shall appropriate one thousand five °f °°°¤ °”· hundred dollars as the annual salary of the councilmen of the said tribe of Indians. vox.. xn. Tnssr.—145