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 TREATY WITH THE DELAWARE INDIANS. JULY 4. 1866. 793 Treaty between the United States of America and the Delaware Tribe of Dzdians ; Ooncluded July 4, 1866 ; Ratification advised Juty 26, 1866; Proclaimed August 10, 1866. ANDREW JOHNSON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, July 4, 1886. ro xm. Ann smcnniuz ro wnou rnnsn rnnsmvrs snam, conn, onsnrxxo': Wrinnnas a treaty was made and concluded at the Delaware Agency, Preamble. Kansas, on the fourth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, by and between Thomas Murphy, John G. Pratt, and \Villiam H. \Vatson, Commissioners, on the part of the United States, and Captain John Connor, Captain Sarcoxie, Charles Journeycake, and other chiefs and councillors of the Delaware tribe of 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:·— Anrrcms or Acnnmuaivr between the United States and the chiefs and C9¤*¤‘¤¢*i¤8 councillors of the Delaware Indians, on behalf of said tribe, made at Pm18s' the Delaware Agency, Kansas, on the fourth day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. Wiinnnas Congress has by law made it the duty of the President of Preamble. the United States to provide by treaty for the removal of the Indian tribes from the State of Kansas; and whereas the Delaware Indians have expressed a wish to remove from their present reservation in said State to the Indian country, located between the States of Kansas and Texas; and whereas the United States have, by treaties negotiated with the Choctaws and Chickasaws, with the Creeks, and with the Seminoles, Indian tribes residing in said Indian country, acquired the righfto locate other Indian tribes within the limits of the same; and whereas the Missouri River Railroad Company, a corporation existing in the State of' Kansas by the laws thereof',——and which company has built a railroad connecting with the Pacific Railroad, from near the mouth of the Kaw River to Leavenworth, in aid of which road the Delawares, by treaty in eighteen hundred and sixty-four, agreed to dispose of their lands,- has expressed a desire to purchase the present Delaware Indian reservation in the said State, in a body, at a fair price: It is hereby agreed between Thomas Murphy, superintendent of Indian affairs, John G. Pratt, agent for the Delawares, and WVilliam H. Watsoii, special commissioner, who are duly appointed to act for the United States; and Captain John Connor, Captain Sarcoxie, and Charles Journeycake, chiefs, and James Ketchum, James Connor, Andrew Miller, and John Sarcoxie, councillors, duly appointed and authorized by said Delaware Indians to act for them and in their behalf, to wit:- Anrrcmc I. That the United States shall secure and cause to be paid Value or resto said Indians the full value of all that part of their reservation, with the ?"’”*l‘E ;‘°";*°· improvements then existing on the same, heretofore sold to the Leaven- pzszsgw 38,,: worth, Pawnee, and 1Vestern Railroad Company, according to the terms waresof a treaty ratified August twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty, and supplemental treaties, and in accordance with the conditions, restrictions, and limitations thereofi