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 690 TREATY WITH THE CHIPPEXVA INDIANS. APRIL 12, 1864. blankets, sheeting, tiannels, provisions, farming-tools, and for such other useful articles, and for such other useful purposes as may be deemed for their best interests, the sum of eight thousand dollars; and will expend in like manner, and for a like period, and for like purposes, for the Pcmbina band of Chippewas, the sum of four thousand dollars. hBl§°l‘¤ml*l{·l ARTICLE IV. The United States also agree to furnish said bands of gu§;,.H’,,g,,,m°r’ Indians, for the period of fifteen years, one blacksmith, one physician, steel, Km. i one miller, and one farmer; and will also furnish them annually, during the same period, with fifteen hundred dollars’ worth of iron, steel, and other articles for blacksmithing purposes, and one thousand dollars for carpentering, and other purposes. 5aw-mm and ARTIGLE V. The United States also agree to furnish for said Indians ¤¤lUS¤>¤€¤· at some suitable point, to be determined by the Secretary of the Interior, a saw-mill with a run of millstones attached. Mouincation ARTICLE VI. It is further agreed, by and between the parties hereto, gjrxfgiclielp °f that article four of the said treaty, concluded at the Old Crossing of Red 3 y' Lake River, and the amendment to said article, shall be modified as follows: that is to say, twenty-five thousand dollars of the amount thereby stipulated shall be paid to the chiefs of said bands, through their agent, upon the ratification of these articles, or so soon thereafter as practicable, to enable them to purchase provisions and clothing, presents to be distributed to their people upon their return to their homes; of which amount five thousand dollars shall be expended for the benefit of their chief, May-dwa-gwa-no·nind; and that from the remaining seventy-tive thousand dollars the claims of injured parties for depredations committed by said Indians on the goods of certain British and American traders at the mouth of Red Lake River, and for exactions forcibly levied by them on the proprietors of the steamboat plying on the Red River, shall have priority of payment, and be paid in full, and the remainder thereof shall bc paid pro rata upon the debts of said tribe incurred since the first day of January, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, to be ascertained by their agent in connection with the chiefs, in lieu of. the commissioner or commissioners provided for in the fourth article of said treaty concluded at the Old Crossing of Red Lake River. Scrip toissne ARTICLE VII. It is further agreed by the parties hereto, that, in §<> ¤}¤iX¤<i bkmds lieu of the lands provided for the mixed bloods by article eight of said m he °fhmds' treaty concluded at the Old Crossing of Red Lake River, scrip shall AM, p- 44- be issued to such of said mixed bloods as shall so elect, which shall entitle the holder to a like amount of land, and may be located upon any of the lands ceded by said treaty, but not elsewhere, and shall be accepted by said mixed bloods in lieu of all future claims for annuities. Signatum In testimony whereof, the said commissioners, on behalf of the United States, and the said chiefs, headmen, and war[r]iors, on behalf of the Red Lake and Pembina bands of Chippewa Indians, have hereunto affixed April ig, 1364, their hands and seals this twelfth day of April, in the year eighteen hun dred and sixty-four. CLARK W. THOMPSON, [seat.] ASHLEY C. MORRILL, [seat,.] Commissioners. Principal Red Lake chief, LIAY·DWA—GUA-NO-NIND, (He that is spoken to,) _ his x mark. {stats.} Red Lake chief, MONS-O-MO, (Moose-dung,) his x mark. SEAL· Red Lake chief ASE-E-NE-WUB, (Little Rock,) his x mark. [SEAL.] Principal Pembina chief, MIS-CO·MUK~QUAH, (Red Bear,) his x mark. [SEAL.]