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 TREATY WITH THE CHOCTAWS. 183}. 335 Anrrcns X. No person shall expose goods or other article for sale as Traders to re· 3 trader, without a written permit from the constituted authorities or quirea written the Nation, or authority of the laws of the Congress of the U. S. under p°""“‘ penalty of forfeiting the Articles, and the constituted authorities of the Nation shall grant no license except to such persons as reside in the Nation and are answerable to the laws of the Nation. The U. S. shall be particularly obliged to assist to prevent ardent spirits from being introduced into the Nation. ARTICLE XI. Navigable streams shall be free to the Choctaws who Navigabie, Shall pay no higher toll or duty than citizens of the U. S. It is agreed ¤**°¤m¤» Pm , further that the U. S. shall establish one or more Post Qnices in said {£°°“’;g '“" Nation, and may establish such military post roads, and posts, ae they ry P ' may consider necessary. An-more XII. All intruders shall be removed from the Choctaw Immdm Nation and kept without it. Private property to be always respected I and on no occasion taken for public purposes without just compensation being made therefor to the rightfull owner. If an Indian unlawfully take or steal any property from a white man a citizen of the U. S. the offender shall be punished. And if a white man unlawfully take or Theft. steal any thing from an Indian, the property shall be restored and the offender punished. It is further agreed that when a Choctaw shall be given up to be tried for any offence against the laws of the U. S. if unable to employ counsel to defend him, the U. S. will do it, that his trial may be fair and impartial. ° ARTICLE XIII. It is consented that a qualified Agent shall be ap- Agent. pointed for the Choctaws every four years, unless sooner removed by the President; and he shall be removed on petition of the constituted authorities of the Nation,the President being satisfied there is sufficient cause shown. The Agent shall fix his residence convenient to the great body of the people; and in the selection of an Agent immediately after the ratification of this Treaty, the wishes of the Choctaw Nation on the subject shall be entitled to great respect. Anrrcrn XIV. Each Choctaw head of a family being desirous to Choctaws remain and become a citizen of the States, shall be permitted to do so, Wishing 30 b°· by signifying his intention to the Agent within six months from the rati-  g"°"° fication of this Treaty, and he or she shall thereupon be entitled to a reservation of one section of six hundred and forty acres of land, to be bounded by sectional lines of survey; in like manner shall be entitled to one half that quantity for each unmarried child which is living with him over ten years of age; and a quarter section to such child as may be under 10 years of age, to adjoin the location of the parent. If they reside upon said lands intending to become citizens of the States for five years after the ratification of this Treaty, in that case a grant in fee simple shall issue; said reservation shall include the present improvement of the head of the family, or a portion of it. Persons who claim under this article shall not lose the priviledge of a Choctaw citizen, but if they ever remove are not to be entitled to any portion of the Choctaw annuity. Anrrcnn XV. To each of the Chiefs in the Choctaw Nation (to wit) Reservations Greenwood Lahore, Nutackachie, and Mushulatubbe there is granted a f°' °l“°f“· reservation of four sections of land, two of which shall include and adjoin their present improvement, and the other two located where they please but on unoccupied unimproved lands, such sections shall be bounded by sectional lines, and with the consent of the President they may sell the same. Also to the three principal Chiefs and to their suc- Annuities. cessors in office there shall be paid two hundred and fifty dollars annu-