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 536 TBEATY WITH THE POTTAWATOMIE INDIANS. FEB. 27, 1867. be applied as the payment for the last one hundred thousand acres of said land;) payments shall also be made for at least one fourth of said umllotted lands at the rate of one dollar per acre, and when so paid the President is authorized hereby to issue patents for the land so paid for; and then for every additional part of said land upon the payment of one dollar per acre. The interest on said purchase-money shall be paid annually to the Secretary of the Interior for the use of said Indians. It' the said company shall fail to pay the principal when the same shall become due, or to pay all or any part of the interest upon such purchase-money within thirty (30) days after the time when such payments of interest shall fall due, then this contract shall be deemed and held absolutely null and void, and cease to be binding upon either of the parties thereto, and said company and its assigns shall forfeit all payments of principal and interest made on such purchase, and all right and title, legal and equitable, of any kind whatsoever, in and to all and every part of said lands which shall not have been, before the date of such forfeiture, paid for as herein provided: Provided, however, That in case any of said lands have been conveyed to bona fide purchasers by said Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé Railroad Company, such purchasers shall be entitled Lo patents for said land so purchased by them upon the payment of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre therefor-, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. Ame, p. sas. Sn-ike out all of Article VII. Strike out all of Article VIII., and insert in lieu thereof as follows: Scttlctnent of Where allottees under the treaty of eighteen hundred and sixty-one ?}gsQ“f,“;f’é‘“Q;d_ shall have died, or shall hereafter decease, such allottees shall be re- Am, p. asa. garded, for the purpose of a careful and just settlement of their estates, as citizens of the United States, and of the State of Kansas, and it shall be competent for the proper courts to take charge of the settlement of their estates under all the forms and in accordance with the laws of the State, as in the case of other citizens deceased; and in cases where there are children of nllottees left orphans, guardians for such orphans may be appointed by the probate court of the county in which such orphans may reside, and such guardians shall give bonds, to be approved by the said court, for the proper care of the person and estate of such orphans, as provided by law. AW, P- 633- ARTICLE X. Strike out the following words: "And it is further agreed that the sum of one hundred and sixty-four thousand five hundred and eighty-four dollars, reported by the Secretary of the Interior on the nineteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, in pursuance of an act of Congress approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty- one, and recommended to be paid, shall be paid to said tribe, to be expended or invested as may be directed by the business committee of the tribe for the benefit of said tribe: Provided, That this last provision shall be of none ettect if said amount shall within one year be approprinted under direction by Congress without reference to this treaty "; and insert in lieu thereof the following words: C1eimsot'Pot- And it is further agreed that the claims of the Pottawatomies hereto-
 * ":'::,‘;;‘;::¤;°m fore examined and reported on by the Secretary of the Interior under

°,·,mm;,,;°,,m_ the act of Congress of March two, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, shall he submitted to two commissioners, to be named by the President of the United States, for examination, and said commissioners, after being sworn impnrtially to decide ou said claims, shall make report of their judgment in the premises, together with the evidence taken, to the Secretary of the Interior, and the same shall be communicated to Congress at its next scssion: Provided, That on part of the money reported due by the said commissioners shall be paid until the same shall be appropriated by Conross. ,4»:s,_p. su. g At the end of Article XI. insert the following words: "S]°;’:g  And the said John F. Dells, John Shoemaker, and M. Gillaud shall