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 1184 TREATY WITH THE DELAWARES. JULY 2, 1861. Leavenworth city westwardly, is not completed and equipped within jive years from the ratification hereof; said company shall thereupon forfeit all right, title, and interest, legal and equitable, in and to all and every part of said lands; and if the remaining section to the western boundary of the said reserve be not completed and equipped within three year: from the date fixed for the completion of said first section, said company shall thereupon forfeit all right, title, and interest, legal and equitable, in and to all of said lands not theretofore earned and patented. “Provided further, That in the event of a failure of the said Railroad Company to pay the annual interest accruing upon the bonds, secured as above, within thirty days after the same falls due at the end of any year, then and in such case the contract included in this treaty shall be rescinded and shall be of no binding eilicacy upon either party thereto. "Prov1Idedfurt}wr, That no part of said lands shall be patented to said Railroad Company until the money price for such part shall have been fully paid therefor. "Am1 provided, That this treaty shall not go into operation and be binding on them until accepted by the Indians thus amended. “Attest: J. W. FORNEY, Secretary.” And whereas Wxnnrnu P. Dot., commissioner of Indian afairs, was designated by the Executive to present the treaty, as above amended, to the Indians, through their chiefs and headmen, for their acceptance, and to take such acceptance, if freely given, with the signatures of said Indian ' chiefs and hcadmen, and to certify his proceedings therein to the Executive; and the foregoing amendments having been fully interpreted and explained to the chiefs and headmen of the Delaware tribe aforesaid, they did thereunto, on the second day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, give their free and voluntary assent in the words and figures following, to wit: We, the undersigned, chiefs, councillors, and headmen of the Delaware tribe of Indians, acting for and on behalf of said tribe, this day in full council assembled, having had read and carefully explained and interpreted to us the within and foregoing treaty or agreement between the United States of America and the Delaware tribe of Indians, concluded on [the] 2d day of July, 1861, together with the within and foregoing amendments thereto, made by the Senate of the United States on the 6th day of August, 1861, do hereby accept and consent to said treaty as so amended. In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our seals this 2d day of September, 1861. JOHN CONNOR, Head Chief, his x mark. [L. s.] NE-CON-HE-CON, Chief of the Wolf Band, his x mark. [L. s.] SAB.-COX-IE, Chief of the Turtle Band, his x mark. L. s. JAMES CONNOR, Dele te, his x mark. 1.. s. CHARLES JOURNEYCAKE. L. s. Signed and sealed in presence of -- Isaac Gorusaxn, U S. Lat. F. Jomtsou. %·12é-B(z(?;_lF";11::}(As to Sar·cox-ie.) I hereby certify that the fore 'n treat or agreement betw e United States and the Delaware 5(ibegof Indhxns, concluded on theagd ddy of July, 1861, together-with the foregoing amendments thereto, made by