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 ARTICLES OF A TREATY OGL H, 1g4g_ Made and concluded at the agency of the Sac and For Indians in the Territory of Iowa, between the United Stutesqf America, 1rrmhgg,1g4§_ by John Chambers their commissioner thereto specially authorized by the President, and the confederated tribes of Sac and For Indians represented by their chiefs, headmen and braces : ARTICLE I. Lands ceded Tun confederated tribes of Sacs and Foxes cede to the United States, any claim or title, or in which they have any interest whatever; reserving a right to occupy for the term of three years from the time of signing this treaty, all that part of the land hereby ceded which lies west of a line running due north and south from the painted or red rocks on the WVhite Breast fork of the Des Moines river, which rocks will be found about eight miles, when reduced to a straight line, from the junction of the \rVhite Breast with the Des Moines. ARTICLE II. Payment by In consideration of the cession contained in the preceding article, the Us- f°¤' °°S· United States agree to pay annually to the Sacs and Foxes, an interest mn' of live per centum upon the sum of eight hundred thousand dollars, and to pay their debts mentioned in the schedule annexed to and made part of this treaty, amounting to the sum of two hundred and fifty-eight thousand, five hundred and sixty-six dollars and thirty-four cents; and the United States also agree, Lands to be First. That the President will as soon after this treaty is ratified on gislgned ‘° lm their part as may be convenient, assirrn a tract of land suitable and con- IHUS IIOF l)€l’HIH.· . . U ,,9,,, ,es,dGm,e_ vement for Indian purposes, to the Sacs and Foxes for a permanent and perpetual residence for them and their descendants, which tract of land shall be upon the Missouri river, or some of its waters. Blacksmith? 7 Second. That the United States will cause the blacksmiths and gun- 'agency of the Sacs and Foxes, to be removed, as soon after their removal as convenient, to some suitable point at or near their residences west of the north and south line mentioned in the first article of tl1is treaty; and will establish and maintain two blacksmiths and two gunsmiths’ shops convenient to their agency, and will employ two blacksmiths, with necessary assistance, and two gunsmiths to carry on the said shops for the benefit of the Sacs and Foxes; one blacksmiths and one gunsmiths’ shop to be employed exclusively for the Sacs, and one of each to be employed exclusively for the Foxes, and all expenses attending the removal of the tools, iron and steel, and the erection of new shops, and the purchase of iron and steel, and the support and maintenance of the shops, and wages of the smiths and their assistants, are to be paid by the tribe, except such portion thereof as they are now Ante, pp.229 entitled to have paid hy the United States, under the 4th article of the &$'*· treaty made with them on the 4th of August 1824, and the 4th article of the treaty of the 21st of September 1832. And when the said tribes shall remove to the land to be assigned them by the President of the United States, under the provisions of this treaty, the smiths’ shops (596)
 * ° U· S· forever, all the lands west of the Mississippi river, to which they have
 * ·,‘;gp§“§LSg"l‘l“ smiths’ tools, with the stock of iron and steel on hand at the present