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 842 TREATY WITH· THE KANSAS INDIANS. Jim. 14, 1846. TREATY WITH THE KANSAS INDIANS. ·l¤¤· T4, 1846- Articles of a Treaty made and concluded at the Methodist Mssim, in the Kansas country, between T/zomas Hi Harvey and Richard W pgqrgite, April 13, Cummins, Commissioners of the United States, and the Kansas Prochmadom Tr1beqfInd1oms. APYiU5i1846· Anrrcnn I. Land ceded to The Kansas tribe of Indians cede to the United States two millions width, thirty miles, and running west for quantity. Anrrchn II. Sums to be In consideration of the foregoing cession, the United States agree to paid by the Um. pay to the Kansas Indians two hundred and two thousand dollars, two ggs fi **5: hundred thousand of which shall be funded at Eve per cent., the in- ...],0,, dispged terest of which to be paid annually for thirty years, and thereafter to 0f- be diminished and paid pro rata, should their numbers decrease, but not otherwise--that is: thegovernmeut of the United States shall pay them the full interest for thirty years on the amount funded, and at the end of that time, should the Kansas tribe be less than at the first payment, they are only to receive pro rata the sums paid them at the first annuity payment. One thousand dollars of the interest thus ac- Ed,,c,m,n_ cruing shall be applied annually to the purposes of education in their Ag,;c,,]mm_ own country; one thousand dollars annually for agricultural assistance, implements, doc.; but should the Kansas Indians at any time be so far advanced in agriculture as to render the expenditure for agricultural assistance unnecessary, then the one thousand dollars above prorided for that purpose shall be paid them in`money with the balance of their annuity; the balance, eight thousand dollars, shall be paid them annually_in their own country. The two thousand dollars not to be funded shall be expended in the following manner: first, the necessary ex— penses in negotiating this treaty; second, four hundred dollars shall M¢U¤¤di¤iE}>i¤—  paid to the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church °°l’“l Ch"'°h‘ for their improvements on the land ceded in the first article; third, six hundred dollars shall be applied to the erection of a mill in the country in which the Kansas shall settle for their use, it being in consideration of their mill on the land ceded in the first article. The balance to be placed in the hands of their agent, as soon after the ratification Provision, of this treaty as practicable, for the purpose of furnishing the said ' Kansas Indians with provisions for the present year. Anrrcnm III. Wm Im of In order that the Kansas Indians may know the west line of the lands cease by land which they have ceded by this treaty, it is agreed that the United ?;*(r';9:;1é*°_;*g States shall, as soon as may be convenient in the present year, cause ,,,,,k,d_ the said line to be ascertained and marked by competent surveyors. Anrrcrie IV. mi}; “;:§‘;,f‘°,f‘; The Kansas Indians are to move fiom the lands ceded to the United rst Maj, 1847. States, by the first article of this treaty, by the first day of May, 1847.
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