Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 14.djvu/689

 TREATY WITH THE CHIPPEWA INDIANS. Ocronmt 18, 1864. 659 and boarding-house purposes, of a value of not less than three thousand dollars, upon the southeast quarter of section nine, township fourteen north, of range four west, which is hereby set apart for that purpose. The superintendent of public instruction, the lieutenant-governor of the 308,,-4 of State of Michigan, and one person, to be designated by said Missionary Vi*:*°;‘¤ °*` ¤¤°¥• Society, shall constitute a board of visitors, whose duty it shall be to visit S° °° ' said school once during each year, and examine the same, and investigate the character and qualifications of its teachers, and all other persons counected therewith, and report thereon to the commissioner of Indian affairs. The said Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church shall of€;‘0*‘;lA£’,°• have lhll and undisputed control of the management of said school, and {vm_ the farm attached thereto. Upon the approval and acceptance of the school and boarding-house buildings by the board of visitors, the United Statz; will pay to the authorized agent of said Missionary Society, for Annual approthe support and maintenance of the school, the sum of two thousand dol- P'lm°¤i lars, and the like sum annually thereafter, until the whole sum of twenty thousand dollars shall have been expended. The United States reserves the right to suspend the annual appropria.- mW W ¤¤¤· tion of two thousand dollars for said school, in part or in whole, whenever p°°d°d' it shall appear that said Missionary Society neglects or fails to manage the aiiairs of said school and farm in a manner acceptable to the board of visitors aforesaid; and it; at. any time within a period of ten years after Ifschool and the establishment of said school, said Missionary Society shall abandon §‘2`;d“Q%:2?“£“ said school or farm for the purposes intended in this treaty, then, and in m,dc,-kms agar, such case, said society shall forfeit all of its rights and franchises under ¤¤‘¤l°$*·· this treaty, and it shall then be competent for the Secretary of the Inte- fs;;??";:!}?' rior to sell or dispose of the land hereinbefore designated, together with hand and ° the buildings and improvements thereon and expend the proceeds of the L’;“;g{g€° ‘““Y same for the educational interests of the Indians in such manner as he ` may deem advisable. At the expiration of ten years after the establishment of said school, if Lend *:_b°f said Missionary Society shall have conducted said school and farm in a :f)£;g°;f'£c?° manner acceptable to the board of visitors during said ten years, the Amendment. United States will convey to said society the land before mentioned by P°°'·P‘ °°1· patent in fee simple. In case said Missionary Society shall fail to accept the trust herein If society does named within one year after the ratification of this treaty, then, and in 2g”‘°°°P° tm"' that case, the said twenty thousand dollars shall be placed to the credit of the educational fund of said Indians, to be expended for their beneht in such manner as the Secretary of the Interior may deemadvisable. It is understood and agreed that said Missionary Society may use the hPF°¤°¤* ¤°h°°}‘ school-house, now standing upon land adjacent to the land hereinbefore °°°°' set apart for a school-farm, where it now stands, or move it upon the land so set apart. ARTICLE V. The said Indians agree that, of the lust two payments Blacksmith GV eighteen thousand eight hundred dollars each, provided for by the said :;'&g· gdb treaty of August second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, the sum of sev- ’ ' enteeu thousand six hundred dollars may be withheld, and the same shall be placed to the credit of their agricultural fund, to be expended for their benefit in sustaining their blacksmith shop, in stock, animals, agricultural implements, or in such other manner as the Secretary of the Interior may deem advisable. ARTICLE VI. The commissioner of Indian affairs may, at the request of Mill and laod ilw chiefs and headmen, sell the mill and land belonging thereto at Isabella ;:g*“;’:l;:,£‘*7 City, on said reservation, and apply the proceeds thereof for such benelici- Y ary objects as may be deemed advisable by the Secretary of the Interior. ARTICLE VII. Inasmuch, as the mill belonging to said Indians is J¤¤1¤¤Ni<=l¤¤l· Hafily located upon land heretofore selected by James Nicholson, it is §%"“'f:sy;;;;°° €1`€by agreed that upon a relinquishment of ten acres of said land by Gm. i i