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 TREATY WITH THE SEMINOLE INDIANS. Mrmcu 21, 1866. 757 to pay in the following manner, to wit: Thirty thousand dollars shall be How to b° P¤idpaid to enable the Seminoles to occupy, restore, and improve their Farms, and to make their nation independent and self·sustaining, and shall he dis= tributed for that purpose under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior; twenty thousand dollars shall be paid in like manner for the purpose of purchasing agricultural implements, seeds, cows, and other stock; fifteen thousand dollars shall be paid for the erection of a mill suitable to accommodate said nation of Indians; seventy thousand dollars to remain in the United States treasury, upon which the United States shall pay an annual interest of five per cent; fifty thousand of said som of seventy thousand dollars shall be a permanent school fund, the interest of which shall be paid annually and appropriated to the support of schools; the remainder of the seventy thousand dollars, being twenty thousand dollars, shall remain a permanent fund, the interest of which shall be paid annually for the support of the Seminole government ; forty thousand three hundred and sixty-two dollars shall be appropriated and expended For subsisting said Indians, discriminating in favor of the destitute; all of which amounts, excepting the seventy thousand dollars, to remain in the treasury as a permanent fund, shall be paid upon the ratification of said treaty, and disbursed in such manner as the Secretary of the Interior may direct. The balance, fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay the losses ascertained and awarded as hereinafter provided, shall be paid when said awards shall have been duly made and approved by the Secretary of the Interior. And in case said fifty thousand dollars shall be insufficient to pay all said awards, it shall be distributed pro rata to those whose claims are so allowed; and until said awards shall be thus paid, the United States agree to pay to said Indians, in such manner and for such purposes as the Secretary of the Interior may direct, interest at the rate of five per cent per annum from the date of the ratification of this treaty. Aarrcmc IV. To reimburse such members of the Seminole nation as Board of comshall be duly adjudged to have remained loyal and faithful to their treaty  {gsm relations to the United States, during the recent rebellion of the so-called summa by confederate states, for the losses actually sustained by them thereby, 1<>y¤1 S¤¤¤i¤<>l¤¤· after the ratification of this treaty, or so soon thereafter as the Secretary of the Interior shall direct, he shall appoint a board of commissioners, not to exceed three in number, who shall proceed to the Seminole country and investigate and determine said losses. Previous to said investigation the agent of the Seminole nation shall prepare a census or enumeration the;”f:°a{" of said tribe, and make a roll of all Seminoles who did in no manner aid y ` or abet the enemies of the government, but remained loyal during said rebellion; and no award shall be made by said commissioners for such losses unless the name of the claimant appear on said roll, and no com- G N° °°ml:i¤*°· pensation shall be allowed any person for such losses whose name does ]O;,°,FE$§§,n,° not appear on said roll, unless said claimant, within six months from the date of the completion of said roll, furnishes proof satisfactory to said board, or to the commissioner of Indian ailairs, that he has at all times remained loyal to the United States, according to his treaty obligations. All evidence touching said claims shall be taken by said commissioners, or any of them, under oath, and their awards made, together with the evi- c0$;’£2§;m dence, shall be transmitted to the commissioner of Indian affairs, for his · ' approval, and that of the Secretary of the Interior. Said commissioners shall be paid by the United States such compensation as the Secretary Psy- of the Interior may direct. The provisions of this article shall extend to and embrace the claims for losses sustained by loyal members of said Wh¤¤¤1¤i¤¤¤ tribe, irrespective of race or color, whether at the time of said losses the ;°};£°:f°s m' claimants shall have been in servitude or not; provided said claimants are made members of said tribe by the stipulations of this treaty. ARTICLE V. The Seminole nation hereby grant a right of way through