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 TREATY IVIT H THE CHIPPEWA INDIANS. Marton 19, 1867. 721 meh, upon the Gulf Lake reservation, for Min-a-ge-shig and Truman A. L¤¤ Mi¤{·¤· ‘ Warren, who shall be entitled to patents for the same upon such selec- $,3;%% adp1x;;` V tions being reported to the department. i i ARTICLE VI. Upon the ratification of this treaty, the Secretary of the Reservktion to Interior shall designate one or mOl`€ persons who shall, in connection with bs l°"""‘li the agent for the Chippewas in Minnesota, and such of their chiefs, parties to this agreement, as he may deem sufficient, proceed to locate, as near as may be, the reservation set apart by the second article hereof, and designate the places where improvements shall be made; and such por- Y tion of the improvements provided for in the fourth article of the Chip- l°1‘K"" p' 694* pewa treaty of May` 7th, 1864, as the agent may deem necessary and proper, with the approval of the commissioner of Indian affairs, may be made upon the new reservation, and the United States will pay the expenses of negotiating this treaty, not to exceed ten thousand dollars. ARTICLE VII. As soon as the location of the reservation set apart by and surveyed. the second article hereof shall have been approximately ascertained, and reported to the office of Indian affairs, the Secretary of the Interior shall cause the same to be surveyed in conformity to the system of government surveys, and whenever, after such survey, any Indian, of the bands parties hereto, either male or female, shall have ten acres of land under l¤<li*}¤S l*¤Vi¤t; cultivation, such Indian shall be entitled to receive a certificate, showing him to be entitled to the forty acres of land, according to legal sub- be entined`m_ division, containing the said ten acres or the greater part thereof, and giiglgsr ‘;0;€""‘l‘ whenever such Indian shall have an additional ten acres under cultiva- acres, gw_ Y tion, he or she shall be entitled to a certificate for additional forty acres, and so on, until the full amount of one hundred and sixty acres may have been certified to any one Indian; and the land so held by any Indian fmI;:‘lg;;€;‘;l’° shall be exempt from taxation and sale for debt, and shall not be and mem be` alienated except with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, and g;i§¤=¤¤¢¤<¢<=Pl, in no case to any person not a member of the Chippewa tribe. °' ARTICLE VIII. For the purpose of protecting and encouraging the Indians, parties to this treaty, in their efforts to become self-sustaining by means of agriculture, and the adoption of the habits of civilized lite, it is hereby agreed that, in case of the commission by any of the said Indians of crimes against life or property, the person charged with such crimes Arrestnnd may be arrested, upon the demand of the agent, by the sheriff of the E‘(R;;l‘;”I_g‘;_*°f county of Minnesota in which said reservation may be located, and when c,;,,,,,s_ so arrested may be tried, and if convicted, punished in the same manner as if he were not a member of an Indian' tribe. In testimony whereof, the parties aforenamed, respectively representing Execution. the United States and the said Chippewas of the Mississippi, have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year first above written. LEWIS V. BOGY, Special Olommissioner. {SEAL.] W. H. WATSON. sum..} JOEL B. BASSETT, U »SC Indian Agent. [SEAL. UE·WE-ZANCE, or . _ Q H016_in_thG_Day’ } his x mark. [SEAL.] QUI-WE-SHEN-SHISH, his x mark. %SEAL. WAU—BON-A-QUOT, his x mark. san., MIN·E-DO-WOB, his x mark. [stmt,. MI-JAVV-KE—KE-SHIK, his x mark. [SEAL.; SHOB-OSH-KUNK, his x mark. sur,. KA-GWAY-DOS H, his x mark. Isuzu,.] LIE-NO-KESHICK, his x mark. SEAL? WAY-NA-MEE, his x mark. {SEAL. O-GUB-AY—GWAN·AY-AUSH, his x mark. sam.,] v01.. xvi. Tamar. —— 46