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 TREATY WITH THE OSAGE INDIANS. SEPTEMBER 29, 1865. 687 Deaty between the United State: of America and the Great and Little Osage Indians. Ooncluded, September 29, 1865; Ratijication advised, with Amendments, June 26, 1866 ; Amendments accepted September 21, 1866; Praclaimed January 21, 1867. ANDREW JOHNSON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, m .;;.1. up sxmumx mo wuou mmm mmsxsxzrs SHALL coma, summa; _S°P*· 2*% 1865,-, Wumzms a Treaty was made and concluded at Canville Trading Post, Preamble. Osage nation, in the State of Kansas, on the twenty-ninth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty- Eve, by and between D. N. Cooley and Elijah Sells, Commissioners, on the part of the United States, and White Hair, Little Bear, (Me-tsoshin-ca,) and other chiefs of the tribe of Great and Little Osage Indians, on the part of said tribe of Indians, and duly authorized thereto by them, which treaty is in the words and figures following, to wit :— ARTICLES on Timur and Convention, made and concluded at Canville Trading Post, Osage nation, within the boundary of the State of Kan- Contracting sas, on the twe¤ty·¤iuth day of September, eighteen hundred and sixty- P¤`*·i°¤- five, by and between D. N. Cooley, Commissioner of Indian 3H`8.l.I'S, and Elijah Sells, superintendent of Indian affairs for the southern superiutendency, Commissioners ou the part of the United States, and the chiefs of the tribe of Great and Little Osage Indians, the said chiefs being duly authorized to negotiate and treat by said tribes. Amicus I. The tribe of the Great and Little Osage Indians, having sm oflnnds now more lands than are necessary for their occupation, and all payments $$2: Unimd from the government to them under former treaties having ceased, Ieav- ' ing them greatly impoverished, and being desirous of improving their condition by disposing of their surplus lands, do hereby grant and sell to the United States the lands contained within the following boundaries, that is to say: beginning at the southeast corner of their present reservation, and Boundaries. running thence north with the eastern boundary thereof fifty miles to the northeast corner; thence west with the northern line thirty miles; thence south fifty miles, to the southern boundary of said reservation; and thence east with said southern boundary to the place of beginning: Provided, Proviso. That the western boundary of said land herein ceded shall not extend further westward than upon a line commencing at a point on the southern boundary of said Osage country one mile east of the place where the Verdigris river crosses the southern boundary of the State of Kansas. And, Payment for in consideration of the grant and sale to them of the above-described lands, ;:%d? p;2°al;““d the United States agree to pay the sum of three hundred thousand dollars, ` which sum shall be placed to the credit of said tribe of Indians in the treasury of the United States, and interest thereon at the rate of five per centum per annum shall be paid to said tribes semi-a1mual1y, in money, clothing, provisions, or such articles of utility as the Secretary of the Inferior may from time to time direct. Said lands shall be surveyed and Lunds to be Bold, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, on the most ad- j‘(j{j {'°Y°d °‘“d vantageous terms, for cash, as public lands are surveyed and sold under ` existing laws, but no pre-emption claim or homestead settlement shall be recognized : and after reimbursing the United States the cost of said sur- Sec ¤m¤n<1— vcy and sale, and the said sum of three hundred thousand dollars placed m°“t· p“‘g° 692*