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 FREATY IVITH THE ClIOCT.\WS AND CIIICIIASAWS. Arun. 28, 1866. 769 Treaty between the United States of America and the Choctaw and Uhickasaw Indians ; Ooncluded April 28, 1866; Ratification advised, with Amendments, June 28, 1866; Amendments accepted July 2, 1866; Proclaimed July 10, 1866. ANDREW JOHNSON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, April 28, 1866; ro Am. nm sxxoumn ro wuom rnssn mzssmrrs snau. coma, onsmmo; Wimmcas a treaty was made and concluded at the city of Washington, Preamble. in the District of Columbia, on the twenty-eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, by and between Dennis N. Cooley, Elijah Sells, and E. S. Parker, Commissioners, on the part of the United States, and Alfred Wade, Allen Wriglnt, James Riley, and John Page, Commissioners, on the part of the Choctaw nation of Indians, and Winchester Colbert, Edmund Pickens, Holmes Colbert, Colbert Carter, and Robert H. Love, Commissioners, on the part of the Chickasaw nation of Indians, all of which Commissioners were duly authorized thereto, which treaty is in the words and figures following, to wit:-• Anrtcrms or Aemmmsur AND Couvmrrrou between the United States 05>¤¤¤w¤¤z and the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations of Indians, made and con- p°m°°' eluded at the city of Wasltington the twenty-eighth day of April, in the year eighteen hundredand sixty-six, by Dennis N. Cooley, Elijah Sells, and E. S. Parker, Special Commissioners on the part of the United States, and Alfred Wade, Allen Wright, James Riley, and John Page, Commissioners on the part of the Choctaws, and Winchester Colbert, Edmund Pickens, Holmes Colbert, Colbert Carter, and Robert II. Love, Commissioners on the part of the Chickasaws. An·rrcr.n I. Permanent peace and friendship are hereby established _P¤¤¢<¤_¤¤d between the United States and said nations; and the Choctaws and f"'°"d*l“l" Chickasaws do hereby bind themselves respectively to use their influence and to make every exertion to induce Indians of the plains to maintain peaceful relations with each other, with other Indians, and with the United States. An·rrot.n II. The Choctaws and Chickasaws hereby covenant and Slew'! Mid agree that henceforth neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, other- wisc than in punishment of crime whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, in accordance with laws applicable to all members of the particular nation, shall ever exist in said nations. Atvrtcma III. The Choctaws and Chickasaws, in consideration of the Cessiqn of the sum of three hundred thousand dollars, hereby cede to the United States l,f’;“‘{}ln;l,;§""tt° the territory west of the 98° west longitude, known as the leased dis- seam, trict, provided that the said sum shall be invested and held by the United States, at an interest not less than five per cent, in trust for the said nations, until the legislatures of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Purchassmonnations respectively shall have made such laws, rules, and regulations as 3 g d may be necessary to give all persons of African descent, resident in the stm, myd held said nations at the date of the treaty of Fort Smith, and their descend- i¤’¤‘¤¤¤¤¤¤il,&¤· ants, heretofore held in slavery among said nations, all the rights, privileges, and immunities, including the right of suffrage, of citizens of said vox,. xiv. 49