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 516 TREATY WITH THE QUAPAWS AND WYANDOTTES. Fm!. 23, 1867. School Fwd- Anrrcnz X. If the Osage mission school should be closed, so that the school fund of the Quapaws cannot be used for them to advantage at that institution, the said Fund shall remain in the treasury of the United States until such time as it can, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, with the consent of the chiefs, be used to advantage in establishing a. school upon their reservation. Aid in agri· Anrxcr. XI. The amount now due and unpaid for u farmer, under °$kf':,,_ P_ ,25 the provisions of the third article of their treaty of May thirteen one thou. ` sand eight hundred and thirty-eight [three], may be used by the chiefs and council for the purchase of provisions, farming implements, seed, and otherwise for the purpose of assisting the people in agriculture; and their annual income now paid for farmer shall hereafter be set apart for the purposes of assistance and improvement in agriculture. CLAIMS FOR LOSSES BY THE WAR. Claims for ARTICLE XII. Whereas the aforesaid Senecas, mixed Senecas and Wand their property destroyed, the government being under obligations to q;,,,,,,,,;,,,,,,, protect them, but For the time unable to do so, it is agreed that at commission to i¤v¤¤¤is¤t<> of not to exceed two persons shall be appointed by the Secretary of the In- °"““"‘ terior, who shall proceed to their country and make careful investigation of their claims for losses, and make full report of the same to the depart- Award of ment; and the Secretary of the Interior shall, upon such report, make d¤m¤z¤¤- such awards as he may decm equitable and just; and upon such awa;-d the United States will pay the claimants the amounts declared to be due: Proviw- Provided, That the sums so paid shall not exceed thirty-five thousand dollars for the Scnecas, twenty-five thousand dollars for the Shawnees, Amended. and thirty thousexncl dollars for the Quapaws; and if the awards shall PM- D· 626- exceed such amounts in either case, the claimants shall be paid pro ram from the amount appropriated. vv,—..¤.i¤m. PROVISIONS IN RELATION TO THE WYANDOTTES, Lund seznpnrt Arrrrcnm XIII. The United States will set apart for the Wyundottes, WY""` {br their future home, the land ceded by the Senecas in the first article hereof, and described in said article, to be owned by the said Wyandottes in common; and in order to reorganize and provide for the said Wy- zmdottes, many of whom have been in a disorganized and unfortunate V°l· X- P· UW condition since their treaty of one thousand eight hundred and fifty-fivc, it Payment. is provided that there shall be recognized as due and paid to the Wyaudottes of all classes the sum of eighty-three thousand eight hundred and fourteen dollars and forty cents, as more particularly stated and described in the mnegistcr to be schedule annexed to this treaty, marked “A." A register of the whole ‘°"‘ people, resident in Kansas and elsewhere, shall be taken by the agent of the Delawnres, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, on or before the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, which shall show the names of all who declare their desire to be and remain Inwh to tl diane, andlin u. tribal condition, together with incompetents and orphans, as me tau WEEE? ‘ describcdm the treaty of one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five ; and all p,0,,,,O_ such persons, and those only, shall hereafter constitute the tribe : Provided, That no one who has heretofore consented to become a citizen, nor the wife or children of any such person, shall be allowed to become members of the tribe, except by the free consent of the tribe after its new organi- Amended. zation, and unless the agent shall certify that such party is, through P°¤*»P· 526- poverty or incapacity, unfit to continue in the exercise of the responsibilities of citizenship of the United States, and likely to become a public c large. uolgngnmggybgiw ARCHGLE XIV. Whenever the register in the next preceding article • shall have been completed and returned to the Commissioner of Indian
 * °;’;°S by *l‘° Shnwnees, and Quupaws were driven from their homes during the late war,