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 TREATY WITH THE SACS AND FOXES. Famzuuu 18, 1867. 495 Treaty between the United States of America and the Tribe of Sac and Fox Indians of the Mississippi ; Ooncluded February 18, 1867; Ratijication advised, with Amendments, July 25, 1868; Amendments aecepted September 2, 1868; Proclaimed October 14, 1868. ANDREW JOHNSON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Fsb.18,1scv. no au. Ann sixeunsn ro wuom mesa rnnsnnrs sn.u.r. come, onnarxne: Wumaicss a treaty was made and concluded at the city of Washington, Preamblein the District of Columbia, on the eighteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, by and between Lewis V. Bogy, William H. Watson, Thomas Murphy, and Henry W. Martin, commissioners, on the part of the United States, and Ken- Contracting kuk, Chekuskuk, Uc·quaw-ho-ko, Mut-tut-tah, and Man-ah-to-wah, chiefs Y°m°°‘ of the tribe of Sac and Fox Indians of the Mississippi, on the part of said Indians, and duly authorized thereto by them, which treaty is in the words and figures following, to wit:- Articles of agreement made and concluded this eighteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, between the United States, represented by Lewi V. Bogy, Commissioner of Indian Afi fairs; William H. Watson, Special Commissioner; Thomas Murphy, Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Kansas; and Henry W. Martin, United States Indian Agent, duly authorized, and the tribes of Sacs and Foxes of the Mississippi, represented by Keokuk, Che-kuskuk, Uc-quaw-ho-ko, Mut-tut-tah, and Man-ah-to-wah, chiefs of said tribes. ARTICLE I. The Sacs and Foxes of the Mississippi cede to the gov- Cesstonot ernment of the United States all the lands, with the improvements there- gteis s°S*l`*° on, contained in their unsold portion of their diminished reserve defined m ° m°°` in the first article of their treaty ratified July ninth, one thousand eight Am 46., hundred and sixty, (the said tract containing about eighty-six thousand and ’ P' ` four hundred acres, and being more particularly described by the survey and plats on file in the Department of the Interior,) except as reserved in previous treaties, or in this treaty. ARTICLE II. The said Indians also cede to the United States a full Additional and complete title to the lands, with the improvements thereon, now re- °°“'°“· maining unsold in that portion of their old reservation provided by article four of the treaty of July ninth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty. to A""’· P‘ *68* be sold by the government for their benefit, the cession herein made being subject to the exceptions defined in this treaty. AIITICLE III. The United States agree to pay to the Sac and Fox Piyqwnts by Indians, parties to this treaty, at the rate of one dollar an acre for the g:m‘l*°°d whole of the land ceded in the two preceding sections, being about one hundred and fifty-seven thousand acres of land, less the amount of land set apart thr individuals ; and further agree to pay the outstanding indebtedness of the said tribe, now represented by scrip issued under the provisions of previous treaties, and amounting, on the first of November. eighteen hundred and sixty-five, to twenty-six thousand five hundred and sev-