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 508 TREATY WITH THE SIOUX INDIANS. FEBRUARY 19, 1867. and shall report to such civil or military officer of the government, as the President may direct; and the President may at any time dispense with said organization: Provided, [That] the said guarantees specified in article X. shall not be in force until the organization aforesaid is made, nor after it is dispensed with. _Sc<>ut·¤t·¤f¤r- ARTICLE XII. Each scout so employed will furnish his own horse,
 * ‘8l"z;°“* arms, ammunition, transportation, and equipments of all kinds, and receive

Psy, ste. from the United States sixty dollars per month, and rations for himself and family, and grain rations for his horse, in full of all allowances whatever: _ Chiefs of M- Provided, That there shall be one chief of station to every twelve men, t‘°§;gp“,, 509 who shall receive fifteen dollars per month extra, and there shall be one P` 'chief of escort to every fifty men, who shall receive twenty dollars per month extra, and one chief of band to every hundred men, who shall receive thirty dollars per month extra. The commandant of the organization to receive such compensation as the President may direct. Scouts to on- ARTICLE XIII. Whenewter the organization of scouts as before specif°*§:e';;:z·P§':69 fied shall be dispensed with, the said bands shall have authority to organ- I ize under the direction of the agent, and without expense to the- government, scouts sufficient to enforce any and all rules, regulations, or laws which may be prescribed by the government, or adopted by the chiefs and head men in council upon either reservation, for the security of life and property and the progress of agricultural improvement and civilization upon such reservation. Debw und _ Anrxcrn XIV. It is further provided that the balance of debts or ‘,g":,';’;:_b° I""'! claims against the Sissiton and Warpeton bands of Sioux Indians providsee pm, p. 600. ed to be paid by the third article of the treaty of 1858, and the decision of the Secretary of the Interior in 1861, are to be paid to the claimants, their attorneys or assignees, as shown to be due by the schedules exhibiting the settlement of said claims, after an examination by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and on tile in the Department of the Interior, amounting in the aggregate to twenty-four thousand three hundred and _ seventy-one dollars and eighty cents. Ex°°“°°°‘ In testimony whereof; we, the commissioners representing the United States, and the delegates representing the Sissiton and Warpeton bands of Sioux Indians, have hereunto set our hands and seals, at the place and on the day and year above written. LEWIS V. BOGY, Oommissioncr of Indian Afuirr, W. H. WATSON. Signed in presence of —-—- Cmmnzs E. Mix. GABRIEL RENVILLE, head chief Siss[i]ton and Wa[r]petou bands. WAIVIDI UPIDUTA, his x mark, bead Sissfgton chief TAOANDU AHOTANKA, his x mark, head Wu[r]peton chief OYEHDUZE, his x mark, chief Sissiton. UMl’E'I`U'l`OKCA, his x mark, “Wahpeton. JOHN OTHERDAY. AKICITAN ANJ IN, his x mark, Sissiton soldier. WAXICUNNIAZA, his x mark, “ “ WASUKIYE, his x mark, “ “ WAMDIDU'I`A, his x mark, “ “ HOKXIDAN WAXTE, his x mark, “ “ WAKANTO, his x mark, ¢· ·= ECANAJ IN KE, his x mark, “ “ CANTEIYAPA, his x mark, “K