Page Treaty with the Blackfoot and other Tribes of Indians. Friendship with the United States and peace with each other, and with certain other tribes, annuities, &c. Concluded and signed at the council ground on the Upper Missouri, &c., October 17, 1855: Ratified by the Senate, April 15, 1856 : Proclaimed by the President, April 25, 1856. . .. 657 Treaty with the Stockbridge and Munsee Tribes of Indians. Cession of lands to the United States: Grant of lands by the United States to the Indians and payment of annuities. Concluded and signed at Stockbridge, Wisconsin, February 5, 1856 : Ratified by the Senate with amendments, April 18, 1856 : Amendment assented to by the Indians, July 29, 1856 : Proclaimed by the President, September 8, 1856. . . . . . . 663 Treaty with the Menomonee Tribe of Indians. Cession of lands to the United States for the Stockbridge and Munsee Indians, payment therefor, &c. Concluded and signed at Keshena, Wisconsin, February 11, 1856 : Ratified by the Senate, April 18, 1856 : Proclaimed by the President, April 24, 1856... Treaty between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Siam. Friendship, commerce, consuls, duties. Concluded at Bangkok, May 29, 1856 : Ratified, March 16, 1857 : Ratifications exchanged at Bangkok, June 15, 1857 Proclaimed by the President of the United States, August 16, 1858... ...... 679 683 ... 691 Convention with His Majesty the Emperor of Austria. Extradition of criminals. Concluded and signed at Washington, July 3, 1856: Ratifications exchanged at Washington, December 13, 1856 Proclaimed by the President, December 15, 1856.... Convention with the Republic of Peru. Rights of Neutrals at Sea. Signed at Lima, July 22, 1856: Ratified by the President, October 22, 1857: Ratifications exchanged at Washington, October 31, 1857: Proclaimed by the President, November 2, 1857..... Treaty with the Creek and Seminole Tribes of Indians. Cession of lands by the Creeks to the Seminoles, &c. : Payments to the Creeks and Seminoles: Removal of Seminoles. Concluded and signed at Washington, August 7, 1856 : Ratified by the Senate with amendments, August 16, 1856 : Amendments assented to by the Indians, August 18, 1856 : Proclaimed by the President, August 28, 1856 ..... Treaty with Persia. Friendship, commerce, &c. Concluded at Constantinople, December 13, 1856 : Ratified by the President, March 12, 1857 : Ratifications exchanged at Constantinople, June 18, 1857 : Proclaimed by the President, August 18, 1857... Convention with the Grand Duchy of Baden. Mutual surrender of criminals, fugitives from justice, in certain cases. Concluded at Berlin, January 30, 1857 : Ratified by the President, March 23, 1857 : Ratifications exchanged at Berlin, April 21, 1857 : Proclaimed by the President, May 19, 1857... Convention with His Majesty the King of Denmark. For the discontinuance of the Sound Dues. Dated at Washington, April 11, 1857 : _ Ratified by the President, January 7, 1858 : Ratifications exchanged at Washington, January 12, 1858 : Proclaimed by the President, January 13, 1858.... 695 699 709 713 719 723 Treaty between the United States of America and the Empire of Japan. Commercial intercourse : Ports open. Concluded at Simoda, June 17, 1857. Ratified and proclaimed by the President of the United States, June 30, 1858. Convention between the United States of America and the Republic of Peru, interpreting the XIIth article of the treaty of July 26, 1851. Whale ships exempt from certain duties. Signed at Lima, July 4, 1857 : Ratified by the President of the United States, May 7, 1858 : Ratifications exchanged at Washington, October 13, 1858: Proclaimed by the President of the United States, October 14, 1858. 725 Treaty with the four Confederate Bands of Pawnee Indians. Cession of lands, protection of the Pawnees, &c. Concluded September 24, 1857: Ratified, with amendment, by the Senate, March 31, 1858: Amendment assented to at Washington, April 3, 1858. Proclaimed by the President, May 26, 1858.. Treaty between the United States of America and the Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians. Relinquishment by the Indians of former treaty claims: Compensation therefor, and how to be disposed of by the United States. Concluded in Genesee County, New York, November 5, 1857: Supplemental articles, November 5, 1857: Ratified by the Senate, June 4, 1858: Proclaimed by the President, March 31, 1859... Convention between the United States and France, agreeing to an additional article to the extradition convention between the two countries. Extradition of criminals. Signed at Washington, February 10, 1858: Ratifications exchanged at Washington, February 12, 1859: Proclaimed by the President of the United States, February 14, 1859. . . . 729 735 741 Treaty between the United States of America and the Yancton Tribe of Sioux, or Dacotah, Indians. Cession of lands to the United States: Reservations secured to the Indians : Grants, &c. Concluded at Washington, April 19, 1858. Ratified by the Senate, February 16, 1859. Proclaimed by the President of the United States, February 26, 1859 743 Treaty of Fort Laramie. September 17, 1851.. 749 TREATIES. Convention between the Choctaws and Chickasaws. Concluded January Jan. 17, 1887. 17, 1837. Approved and Confirmed March 24, 1837.* ARTICLES of convention and agreement made on the seventeenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, between the undersigned chiefs and commissioners, duly appointed and empowered by the Choctaw tribe of red People, and John McLish, Pitman Colbert, James Brown, and James Perry, delegates of the Chickasaw tribe of Indians, duly authorized by the chiefs and head men of said people for that purpose, subject to the approval of the President and Senate of the United States. Negotiators. Chickasaws may form a dis trict in the Choc taw country. ARTICLE I. It is agreed by the Choctaws that the Chickasaws shall have the privilege of forming a district within the limits of their country, to be held on the same terms that the Choctaws now hold it, except the right of disposing of it, which is held in common with the Choctaws and Chickasaws, to be called the Chickasaw district of the Choctaw Nation, to have an equal representation in their General Council, and to be placed on an equal footing in every other respect with any of the other districts of said nation, except a voice in the management of the consideration Conditions and which is given for these rights and privileges; and the Chickasaw people limitations. to be entitled to all the rights and privileges of Choctaws, with the exception of participating in the Choctaw annuities, and the consideration to be paid for these rights and privileges, and to be subject to the same laws to which the Choctaws are; but the Chickasaws reserve to themselves the sole right and privilege of controlling and managing the residue of their funds, as far as is consistent with the late treaty between the said people and the Government of the United States, and of making such regulations and electing such officers for that purpose as they may think proper. ARTICLE II. The Chickasaw district shall be bounded as follows, viz: beginning on the north bank of Red River, at the mouth of Island bayou, about eight or ten miles below the mouth of False Wachitta, thence running north along the main channel of said bayou to its source; thence along the dividing ridge between the Wachitta and Low Blue rivers, to the road leading from Fort Gibson to Fort Wachitta; thence along said road, to the line dividing Mushallatubbee and Pushmatahaw districts; thence, eastwardly, along said district line, to the source of Brushy Creek; thence, down said creek, to where it flows into the Canadian River, ten or twelve miles above the mouth of the south fork of the Canadian; thence, west, along the main Canadian River, to its source, if in the limits of the United States, or to those limits; and thence, due south to Red River, and down Red River to the beginning. ARTICLE III. The Chickasaws agree to pay the Choctaws, as a consideration for these rights and privileges, the sum of five hundred and thirty thousand dollars; thirty thousand of which shall be paid at the time, and in the manner, that the Choctaw annuity of 1837 is paid; and the remaining five hundred thousand dollars to be invested in some safe and secure * Published in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the United States, dated February 9, 1859. Boundaries of district. Payment for these privileges Differences as tion of this agree stocks, under the direction of the Government of the United States, redeemable within a period of not less than twenty years; and the Government of the United States shall cause the interest arising therefrom to be paid annually to the Choctaws, in the following manner: twenty thousand dollars of which to be paid, as the present Choctaw annuity is paid, for four years, and the residue to be subject to the control of the General Council of the Choctaws; and, after the expiration of the four years, the whole of said interest to be subject to the entire control of the said council. ARTICLE IV. To provide for the future adjustment of all complaints or to the construc- dissatisfactions which may arise to interrupt the peace and harmony which ment to be refer- have so long and so happily existed between the Choctaws and Chickared to the Choc- saws, it is hereby agreed by the parties that all questions relative to the taw agent. construction of this agreement shall be referred to the Choctaw agent, to be by him decided; reserving, however, to either party, should it feel Appeal to the itself aggrieved thereby, the right of appealing to the President of the United States, whose decision shall be final and binding. But, as considerable time might elapse before the decision of the President could be had, in the mean time, the decision of the said agent shall be binding. President. Both to have ARTICLE V. It is hereby declared to be the intention of the parties equal rights and hereto, that equal rights and privileges shall pertain to both Choctaws and privileges. Chickasaws to settle in whatever district they may think proper, and to be eligible to all the different offices of the Choctaw Nation, and to vote on the same terms in whatever district they may settle, except that the Choctaws are not to vote in any wise for officers in relation to the residue of the Chickasaw fund. Except. Signatures. In testimony whereof, the parties hereto have hereunto subscribed their names and affixed their seals, at Doaksville, near Fort Towson, in the Choctaw country, on the day and year first above written. In the presence of WM. ARMSTRONG, Act. Supt. West'n Ter'y, HENRY R. CARTER, Conductor of the Chickw. Delegn, VINCT. B. TIMS, DANIEL MCCURTAIN, U. S. Interpreter, P. J. HUMPHREYS, J. T. SPRAGUE, Lieut. U. S. M. Corps, THOMAS LAFLOOR, his x mark, Chief of Oaklafalaya district, Commissioners of the Choctaw Nation P. P. PITCHLYNN, ISRAEL FOLSOM, R. M. JONES, [SEAL.] SEAL. SEAL. SEAL. SILAS D. FISHER, SEAL. WM. ARMSTRONG, Acting Superintendent, Western Territory, R. I. HUMPHREYS, J. T. SPRAGUE, Lieut. U. S. M. Corps. WHEREAS a convention or agreement was made and entered into at Doaksville, in the Choctaw Country, on the seventeenth day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, by and between the Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes of Indians, which convention or agreement was made subject to the approval of the President and Senate of the United States And whereas the Senate, by their resolution passed on the twenty-fifth day of February last, did approve of the said convention or agreement, ; Now be it known that I, MARTIN VAN BUREN, President of the United States of America, having seen and considered the said convention or agreement, do, by these presents, declare that I approve and confirm the same, and every clause and article thereof. Given under my hand, at the City of Washington, the twentyfourth day of March, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and of the independence of the United States the sixty-first. By the President: JOHN FORSYTH, Secretary of State. M. VAN BUREN. |