by resolution of March sixth, 1845, advise and consent to the ratification of said treaty with the following amendments: Strike out from the fourth article the following words: "in their own country for the support of a manual labor school in the Canadian district, and of another in the Arkansas district; provided that the President does not object to such application of the annuities above named granted in the treaties of 1832 and 1833. And it is also agreed that, in the management of such schools, the wishes of the Creek council shall be consulted;" and insert, in lieu thereof, the following words: "under the direction of the President of the United States, for the purposes of education aforesaid." Strike out from the fifth article the following words: "except those now in Florida," and add, at the end of this article, the following words: "except those now in Florida, who shall be allowed twelve months from the date of the ratification of this treaty for their removal." Now we, the Chiefs and Head Men of the Creek and Seminole tribes of Indians, do hereby consent to and ratify said amendments. In testimony whereof, we hereunto place our hands, this twenty-eighth day of May, 1845. Roley McIntosh, Eufaula Harjo, his x mark. To-marth-le Micco, his x mark. his x mark. Tuckabatche Micco, his x mark. Proclaimed 18 In the presence of— J. B. Luce, Secretary to Commissioners. Charles L. Bailey. Now, THEREFORE, BE IT KNOWN, that I, JAMES K. POLK, President of the United States of America, do, in pursuance of the advice and consent of the Senate, as expressed in their resolution of the sixth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, accept, ratify, and confirm the said treaty, with the amendments set forth in the said resolution. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOFI have caused the seal of the United States to be hereunto affixed, having signed the same with my hand. Done at the city of Washington, the eighteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred [SEAL.] and forty-five, and of the Independence of the United States the seventieth. By the President: JAMES K. POLK. JAMES BUCHANAN, Secretary of State. Whereas, a treaty was made and concluded at the Methodist Treaty with Mission, in the Kansas country, between Thomas H. Harvey concluded 14th Kansas Indians, and Richard W. Cummins, Commissioners of the United July, 1846. States, and the Kansas tribe of Indians, on the fourteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six; which treaty is, word for word, as follows, to wit: Articles of a treaty made and concluded at the Methodist mission, in the Kansas country, between Thomas H. Harvey and Richard W. Cummins, Commissioners of the United States, and the Kansas tribe of Indians. ARTICLE 1. Treaty. The Kansas tribe of Indians cede to the United States two Land ceded to millions of acres of land on the east part of their country, em- the U. States. bracing the entire width, thirty miles, and running west for quantity. ARTICLE 2. In consideration of the foregoing cession the United States Sums to be paid by the U. States agree to pay to the Kansas Indians two hundred and two for the cession thousand dollars, two hundred thousand of which shall be of lands-how disposed of. funded at five per cent., the interest of which to be paid annually for thirty years, and thereafter to be diminished and paid pro rata, should their numbers decrease, but not otherwisethat is the government 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 accruing shall be applied annually to the purposes of education in their own country; one thousand dollars annually for agricultural assistance, implements, &c.; but should the Kansas Indians at any time be so far advanced in sagriculture as to render the expenditure for agricultural assis-, Lance unnecessary then the one thousand dollars above provid West line of this treaty to be ed 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 expenses in negotiating this treaty; second, four hundred dollars shall be paid to the missionary society of the Methodist Episcopai church for their improvements on the land ceded in the fist 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 of this treaty as practicable, for the purpose of furnishing the said Kansas Indians with provisions for the present year. ARTICLE 3. In order that the Kansas Indians may know the west line of lands ceded by the land which they have ceded by this treaty, it is agreed ascertained and that the United States shall as soon as may be convenient in the present year, cause the said line to be ascertained and marked by competent surveyors. marked. ARTICLE 4. Kansas Indians The Kansas Indians are to move from the lands ceded to the to move from United States by the first article of this treaty, by the first day lands ceded by 1st May, 1847. of May, 1847. The President fied that there on lands re ARTICLE 5. As doubts exist whether there is a sufficiency of timber on on being satis- the land remaining to the Kansas, after taking off the land as not a suffici- ceded in the first article of this treaty, it is agreed by the con ency of timber tracting parties, that after the western line of the said cession shall maining to the be ascertained, and the President of the United States shall be lect and lay off satisfied that there is not a sufficiency of timber, he shall cause a.suitable coun- to be selected and laid off for the Kansas a suitable country, near the western boundary of the land ceded by this treaty, which shall *Additional ces remain for their use forever. In consideration of which, the sion by the Kansas nation cede to the United States the balance of the re Kansas. servation under the treaty of June 3, 1825, and not ceded in the first article of this treaty. try, &c. ARTICLE 6. A sub-rgent to In consideration of the great distance which the Kansas In Teside them. mongst dians will be removed from the white settlements and their present agent, and their exposure to difficulties with other Indan tribes, it is agreed that the United States shall cause to teside among the Kansas Indians a sub-agent who shall be especially charged with the direction of their farming operations, and general improvement, and to be continued as long as the President of the United States should consider it advantageous to the Kansas. ARTICLE 7. smith. Should the government of the United States be of opinion Provision for a that the Kansas Indians are not entitled to a smith under the 4th article of the treaty of June 3, 1825, it is agreed that a smith shall be supported out of the one thousand dollars provided in the 4th article for agricultural purposes. In testimony whereof, Thomas H. Harvey and Richard W. Signed January Cummins, commissioners, and the chiefs and principal men of 14, 1846. the Kansas tribe of Indians have, this the 14th day of January one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, set their hands and seals at the Methodist Kansas mission.. Now, therefore, be it known that I, JAMES K. POLK, Proclaimed 15 President of the United States of America, having seen and April, 1846, considered said treaty, do in pursuance of the advice and con. sent of the Senate, as expressed in their resolution of the thirteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty six, ac |