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 TREATY WI'I` H THE SIOUX INDIANS. FEBRUARY 19, 1867. 507 Amuorn VI. To enable said Indians to return to an agricultural life E¤<P°"dl{¤’°¤ under the system in operation on the Sioux reservation in 1862, it is ?;l,;°;;;}',°;tf,(}l?h° agreed that there shall be expended for the benefit of the Indians entitled Indians. to locate farms on the Lake Traverse reservation for the year 1867, three S°°P""‘·P·5°9· hundred and fifty thousand dollars; for the year 1868, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; for the year 1869, one hundred thousand dollars ; for the y ear 1870, fifty thousand dollars; and thirty thousand dollars annually thereafter; and to enable the Indians on said reservation to return at once to their agricultural habits and life, and be enabled to cultivate a crop the coming season, the expenditures set forth in the schedule hereunto attached, shall be made at as early a day as possible. Aivrtcmc VII. An agent shall be appointed for said bands, who shall Agent at Luke be located at Lake Traverse; and whenever there shall be (500) Eve T';""°”°·““d hundred persons located permanently upon the Devil’s Lake reservation, °t§;:,i;§,il;;Q509_ there shall be an agent, or other competent person, appointed to superintend the agricultural, educational, and mechanical interests of said Indians, and thereafter there shall be expended to aid said Indians in their agricultural improvements and civilization, for the first year, one hundred thousand dollars; for the second year, two hundred thousand dollars; for the third year, one hundred thousand dollars; for the iourth year, fifty thousand dollars; and thirty thousand dollars annually thereafter. ARTICLE VIII. All expenditures to be made upon said reservationfsj Expenditures (except as per schedule aforesaid) shall be made for the agricultural :*3;*; '2:‘5:tg‘;_‘;u improvement and civilization of the Indians upon the respective reserva— im,,r§,,,,nm,g tions, in such manner as the President of the United States shall direct, ¤¤d <>iVili¤}*¤i¤¤ but no issue of goods, provisions, groceries, or other articles, (except °f§;‘:Ilf;,l';l'§[,,,_ houses, which will be provided for Indians and mixed-bloods entitled ` to locate on the respective reservations as they advance in agriculture,) shall be made to Indians or mixed-bleeds on either reservation, unless it be made in payment of labor performed, or to be performed, or for producc delivered: Provided, That when persons on either reservation, by reason of age, sickness, or deformity, are unable to labor, the agent may P'°'l*°· issue clothing and subsistence to such persons from the supplies provided for said bands. ARTICI.E IX. As it is contemplated that the agent will supply the No person to Indians and mixed-bloods with clothing, provisions, &e., in payment for  :‘O;`°i§;"" labor, as provided in Article VIII., and it being desirable that no encour- S,,e},,,_,,,;,,,_ 5},9, agement be aii"orded them to rely upon the chase as a means of subsist- 510. ence, no person will be permitted to trade upon either of the reservations nor within the limits of the land claimed by said bands, as designated in the second article of this treaty; and it is also agreed that no person, not a member of said bands, parties hereto, whether white, mixed-blood, or Indian, except persons in the employ of the government, or located under its authority, shall be permitted to locate upon said lands, either for hunting, trapping, or agricultural purposes. Aitrtctn X. It is iurther agreed that the said bands, parties to thist S¤t¤¤y yi? treaty, will guarantee the safety of travel, of the transportation of the ggaegtgxplz mails, supplies, &c., the protection of mail stations and property connected amt frontier settherewith, upon the lands claimed by them as befbre specified, and the Q3 _ _ _, post, pp. 509, safety of the frontier settlers ot Minnesota and eastern Dakota from tres- m0_ pass by hostile or unfriendly Indians; said safety of travel and transportation and protection of mail stations and property to extend over any rout[e] across the lands claimed by said bands as hereinbetbre set forth. Anrrctn XI. To enable said Indians to make good the guarantee Members or above specified, the President of the United States will cause the selec· glsgnijgggj ';b° tion and appointment of a suitable person, sa.tisfactory to the Indians here Scouts_ represented, who shall organize not less than two hundred and fifty mem- Se¢p0sl,p·509· bers of said bands for service as scouts. The person so selected shall command and control the operations of said scouts, under such regulations,