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 TREATY WITH THE CHIPPEWA INDIANS. OCTOBER 18, 1864. 657 Treaty between the United States of America and the Ohtppewa Indians of Saginaw, Swan Creek, and B/ack River, Imc/zigan ; Ooncluded October 18, 1864; Ratification advised, with Amendments, May 22, 1866; Amendments accepted, Jicne 18, 1866; Proclaimed August 16, 1866. ANDREW JOHNSON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Oetnberm,1864. ro LLL Arm sxnonnm ro wnou rnnsn rnnsnnrs smut. coms, cnsnrmo: WHEREAS a treaty was made and concluded at Isabella, in the State Preamble. of Michigan, on the eighteenth day of _October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, by and between H. J. Alvord and D. C. Leach, Commissioners, on the part of the United States, and S. D. Simonds, Lyman Bennett, Jno. Pay-me—quo·ung, and other chiefs and headmen of the Chippewa Indians of Saginaw, Swan Creek, and Black River, in the State of Michigan, representing said Indians, and duly authorized thereto by them, which treaty is in the words and figures following, to wit: ARTICLES or AGREEMENT AND CONVENTION made and concluded at the Contracting Isabella Indian reservation, in the State of Michigan, on the eighteenth P“"°‘°“‘ day of October, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, between H. J. Alvord, special Commissioner for the United States, and D. C. Leach, United States Indian agent, acting as Commissioners for and on the part of the United States, and the Chippewas of Saginaw, Swan Creek, and Black River, in the State of Michigan aforesaid, parties to the Treaty of August 2d, 1855, as follows, viz g..- Vol- xi- p· 688· ARTICLE I. The said Chippewas of Saginaw, Swan Creek, and Black Rglggsg to th., River, for and in consideration of the conditions hereinafter specified, do U¤if¤d Siam of hereby release to the United States the several townships of land reserved ;‘Qs§;`mtl%%:g%° to said tribe by said treaty aforesaid, situate and being upon Saginaw Bay, and (purchase in Said Smt€_ certain lands. The said Indians also agree to relinquish to the United States all claim to any right they may possess to locate lands in lieu of lands sold or disposed of by the United States upon their reservation at Isabella, and also the right to purchase the unselected lands in said reservation, as provided for in the first article of said treaty. ARTICLE II. In consideration of the foregoing relinquishments, the Certain lands United States hereby agree to set apart for the exclusive use, ownership, §zE];£]‘;";lf‘}‘g;P° and occupancy of the said of the said Chippewas of Saginaw, Swan bgllg, county, Creek, and Black River, all of the unsold lands within the six townships in Isabella county, reserved to said Indians by the treaty of August 2d, 1855, aforesaid, and designated as follows, viz : — The north half of township fourteen, and townships fifteen and sixteen north, of range three west; the north half of township fourteen and township fifteen north, of range four west, and townships fourteen and fifteen north, of range Eve west. ARTICLE III. So soon as practicable after the ratification of this Mode and ortreaty, the persons who have heretofore made selections of lands within gftazfdgiixggzi fiw townships upon Saginaw Bay, hereby relinquished, may pIOGB8d to those relinmake selections of lands upon the Isabella reservation, in lieu of th€iI‘ S6- ‘1“l*h“d· lections aforesaid, and in like quantities. VOL. xiv. 42