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 TREATY WITH THE CHEYENNE INDIANS. OCTOBER 28, 1867. 597 4th. They will never capture or carry oi}` from the settlements white Willis w<>¤=¤¤ women or children. ““d °l“m"°“· 5th. They will never kill or scalp white men, nor attempt to do them White msn. harm. 6th. They withdraw all pretence of opposition to the construction of Railroads wd the railroad now being built along the Platte river, and westward to the °*h°" ’°“‘l" Pacific Ocean; and they will not in future object to the construction of railroads, wagon roads, mail stations, or other works of utility or necessity, which may be ordered or permitted by the laws of the United States. But should such roads or other works be constructed on the lands of their Damages to reservation, the government will pay the tribe whatever amount of dam- ”l*°i' '°*°"°‘ age may be assessed by three disinterested commissioners to be appointed mm` by the President for that purpose, one of said commissioners to be a chief or headman of the tribe. 7 th. They agree to withdraw all opposition to the military posts or roads Military p<>¤l• now established, or that may be established, not in violation of treaties here- °‘“d "°“°l" tofore made or hereafter to be made with any of the Indian tribes. Artrrorn XII. No `treaty for the cession of any portion or part of the Gsqsion of wereservation herein described, which may be held in common, shall be_of QQVQLYQ gg; any validity or force as against the said Indians unless executed and sm, l ’ signed by at least three fourths of all the adult male Indians occupying or interested in the same ; and no cession by the tribe shall be understood or construed in such manner as to deprive without his consent any individual member of the tribe of his rights to any tract of land selected by him as provided in Article VI. of this treaty. ARTICLE XIII. The United States hereby agree to furnish annually PhySi¤i¤q,&¢· to the Indians the physician, teachers, carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer, {fg, gf, %';§€§°d and blacksmiths, as herein contemplated, and that such appropriations States. shall be made from time to time, on the estimates of the Secretary of the - Interior, as will be sufficient to employ such persons. ARTICLE XIV. It is agreed that the sum of five hundred dollars, an- Annual pres nually, for three years from date, shall be expended in presents to the ten $';f;;g{€";Qg:m_ persons of said tribe who, in the judgment of the agent, may grow the most valuable crops for the respective year. ARTICLE XV. The tribes herein named agree that when the agency- R¤s¤¤’¤¤l<>¤ W house and other buildings, shall be constructed on the reservation named, E;,£:r‘§;‘l°“° they will regard and make said reservation their permanent home, and ° they will make no permanent settlement elsewhere, but they shall have the right, subject to the conditions and modifications of this treaty, to hunt bn the lands south of the Arkansas river, formerly called theirs, in the same manner as agreed on by the treaty of the “Little Arkansas," concluded the fourteenth day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-tive. In testimony of which, we have hereunto set our hands and seals, on Signature. the day and year aforesaid. N. G. TAYLOR, [snr,.] President of Indn. Commission. WM. S. HARNEY, [san,.] Mey. Gen. Bvt., Qc. C. C. AUGUR, [sen,.] Bvt. JW]`. Gen!. ALFRED H. TERRY, [sun,.] Bvt. M Gen]. JOHN B. SANBORN, [snr.,] Com. SAMUEL F. TAPPAN. {sms;.} J. B. HENDERSON. san.. Attest: Asnrou S. H. Wnxrm, Secretary. Geo. B. WILLIS, Phonograp/wr.