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 TREATY WITH THE PONCA INDIANS. PIARCH 10, 1865. .675 Supplemental Healy between the United States of America and the Ponca Tribe of Indians; Concluded March 10, 1865; Ratification advised March 2, 1867 ; Proclaimed March 28, 1867. ANDREW JOHNSON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ro ALL mn smeuraiz T0 wuou russia rnnsmus sun:. coun cnnirrum: March 14;, lags, Wnsnnss a supplemental Treaty was made and concluded at the city Preamble. of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on the tenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-tive, by and between William P. Dole, Commissioner, on the part of the United States, and Wah-gah-sap—pi, or Iron Whip, Gist·tah-wah-gu, or Strong Walker, Wash-com·mo-ni, or Mitchell P. Cerre, Ash-nan-e-kah-gah-he, or Lone Chief, and Tah-ton-ga-nuz-zhe, or Standing Buffalo, chiefs and headmen of the Ponca tribe of Indians, on the part of said Indians, and ` duly authorized thereto by them, which Treaty is in the words and Figures following, to wit :-— SUPPLEMENTAL Tnnur between the United States of America and the Contracting Ponca tribe of Indians, made at the city of Washington on the tenth 9*****- day of March, A. D. 1865, between William P. Dole, Commissioner on the part of the United States, and Wah-gah-sap-pi, or Iron Whip; Gist·tah-wah-gu, or Strong Walker; Wash-com-mo-ni, or Mitchell P. Cerre; Ash-nan-e-kah-gah-he, or Lone Chief; Tab-ton-ga-nuz-zhe, or Standing Buffalo; on the part of the Ponca tribe of Indians, they being duly authorized and empowered by the said tribe, as follows, viz:- ARTICLE I. The Ponca tribe of Indians hereby cede and relinquish q,,,;,,,, of to the United, States all that portion of their present reservation as lands to the described in the first article of the treaty of March 12th, 1858, lying I(g{°‘;,§t';°°;§., west of the range line between townships numbers (32) thirty-two and Bdundni-tes. ` (33) thirty-three north, ranges (10) ten and (11) eleven west of the (6) sixth principal meridian, according to the Kansas and Nebraska survey; estimated to contain thirty thousand acres, be the same more or less. ARTICLE II. In consideration of the cession or release of that portion Certain fracof the reservation above described by the Ponca tribe of Indians to the @*)*1 (I*°"¤¤mP° government of the United States, the government of the United States, gy Q; §;?;°g by way of rewarding them for their constant fidelity to the government States to the Sud citizens thereof, and with a. view of returning to the said tribe of P°“°"• Ponca Indians their old burying-grounds and corntields, hereby cede and relinquish to the tribe of Ponca Indians the following—described fractional townships, to wit: township (31) thirty-one north, range (7) seven west ; also fractional township (32) thirty-two north, ranges (6,) six, (7,) seven,