ARTICLE VI. Whenever a quantity of said lands, amounting to 6,500 Part of purchase money to acres, at the least, upon the terms hereinbefore provided, may be purchased, be invested in written notice, executed by the chiefs and headmen in council, and ac- stocks. knowledged before a justice of the supreme court of New York, or judge of the superior court of the city of Buffalo, shall be given to the Secretary of the Interior, whereupon the portion of said sum of $256,000, not expended in the purchase of lands, as aforesaid, shall be invested by the said Secretary of the Interior in stocks of the United States, or in stocks of some of the States, at his discretion; and the increase arising from such investment shall be paid to the said Tonawanda Indians, at the time and in the manner that the annuities are paid which said Indians are now entitled to receive from the United States. money to be ap ARTICLE VII. It is hereby agreed that the sum of $15,018.36 "im- Improvement provement money," heretofore apportioned to the Indians upon the Tona- portioned. wanda reservation, shall be again apportioned by an agent, to be appointed by the chiefs and headmen in council assembled, to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior, which agent shall make a report of such apportionment to the said Secretary of the Interior, and if he concur therein, the shares so ascertained shall be paid to the individual Indians entitled thereto, who shall surrender and relinquish to the said Ogden and Fellows, or the survivor of them, or their assigns, their improvements, and any balance remaining shall be paid to the chiefs and headmen of the band, to be disbursed by them in payment of the debts, or for the use of the band. The services of the agent to be thus appointed, and all other expenses attending the execution of these articles, are to be paid by the United States out of any moneys coming to the Tonawandas. In testimony whereof the said Charles E. Mix, commissioner as aforesaid, and the undersigned persons, representing the Tonawanda band of Seneca Indians, have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year first above written. CHARLES E. MIX, Commissioner. Signature. [L. s.] ISAAC x SHANKS. [L. S.] JESSE x SPRING. [L. S. L. S.] [L. S.] The foregoing instrument was, on the day of the date thereof, executed in our presence, and we have hereunto at the same time affixed our names as subscribing witnesses. JOHN H. MARTINDALE. LEANDER MIX. HENRY BETTINGER. NICHOLSON H. PARKER, U. S. Interpreter. Also, the following chiefs and headmen heartily concur in the foregoing articles in behalf of themselves and their people : : Supplemental articles. Nov. 5, 1857. Ante, p. 736. than $20 per JOHN x SMITH. SMALL x PETER. HARRISON x SCROGG. Headmen. WM. x ALICK. WM. x STEWART. ANDREW x BLACKCHIEF. CHAUNCEY x ABRAM. Signed in open council, in presence of— FREDERICK FOLLETT. NICHOLSON H. PARKER, U. S. Interpreter. And whereas certain supplemental articles of agreement and convention were also concluded at the meeting-house, on the Tonawanda reservation, in the county of Genesee and State of New York, on the fifth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, between Charles E. Mix, commissioner on behalf of the United States, and the following persons duly authorized thereunto by the Tonawanda band of Seneca Indians, viz: Jabez Ground, Jesse Spring, Isaac Shanks, George Sky, and Ely S. Parker-which supplemental articles are in the words and figures following, to wit: Supplemental articles of agreement and convention made this fifth day of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, at the meeting-house on the Tonawanda reservation, in the county of Genesee, State of New York, between Charles E. Mix, commissioner on behalf of the United States, of the first part, and the following persons duly authorized thereunto by the Tonawanda band of Seneca Indians, viz: Jabez Ground, Jesse Spring, Isaac Shanks, George Sky, and Ely S. Parker, of the second part. Whereas, at the date hereof and concurrent with the execution of this instrument, articles of agreement and convention have been entered into between the parties aforesaid, in and by which articles it is provided that the said Tonawanda band of Seneca Indians may purchase portions of the Tonawanda reservation, "upon the express condition that the rate of purchase shall not exceed $20 per acre on an average." And whereas the President of the United States may deem it discreet and expedient that certain portions of said reservation, held in severalty by the assigns of said Ogden and Fellows, should be purchased by said Indians if it shall be necessary so to do, at a rate exceeding $20 per acre on an average. Portions of reservation may be Now, therefore, the said parties of the second part agree, that portions bought for more of said reservation may be purchased by the authorized agents of said Indians for them, and paid for out of said sum of $256,000, at a rate exceeding $20 per acre on an average, provided the contract or contracts therefor shall be first submitted to and approved by the President, or some public officer to be designated by him. acre, if, &c. And the said parties of the second part solicit the President to accept and adopt this supplement as a part of the said articles of agreement and convention entered into concurrent with the execution of this agreement. In testimony whereof the said Charles E. Mix, commissioner as aforesaid, and the undersigned persons representing the Tonawanda band of Seneca Indians, have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year first above written. CHARLES E. MIX, Commissioner. [L. S.] The foregoing instrument was, on the day of the date thereof, executed in our presence, and we have hereunto, at the same time, affixed our names as subscribing witnesses. JOHN H. MARTINDALE. FREDERICK FOLLETT. C. B. RICH. LEANDER MIX. HENRY BETTINGER. NICHOLSON H. PARKER, U. S. Interpreter. Also, the following chiefs and headmen heartily concur in the foregoing supplemental articles in behalf of themselves and their people : LEWIS x POODRY. SNOW x COOPER. ISAAC x DOCTOR. JOHN x BIGFIRE. JOHN x SMITH. THOMSON x BLINKEY. JOHN x JOSHUA. JAMES x WILLIAMS. GEORGE x SKY. DAVID x PRINTUP. BENJ. x JONAS. ADDISON x CHARLES. JOHN x HATCH. Headmen. WM. x ALICK, 腿讓 Signed in open council, in presence of— FREDERICK FOLLETT. NICHOLSON H. PARKER, U. S. Interpreter. Ratification by And whereas, the said treaty and the supplementary articles thereunto the Senate, June appended, having been submitted to the Senate of the United States for 4, 1858. its constitutional action thereon, the Senate did, on the fourth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, advise and consent to the rati Proclaimed March 31, 1859. fication of the same by a resolution, in the words and figures following, SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, June 4, 1858. Now, therefore, be it known that I, JAMES BUCHANAN, President of the United States of America, do, in pursuance of the advice and consent of the Senate, as expressed in their resolution of June the fourth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, accept, ratify, and confirm the said treaty and supplementary articles. In testimony whereof, I have caused the seal of the United States to be hereto affixed, having signed the same with my hand. Done at the city of Washington, this thirty-first day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty[L. S.] nine, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-third. By the President: JAMES BUCHANAN. LEWIS GASS. Convention between the United States and France, agreeing to an additional Article to the Extradition Convention between the two Countries. Signed at Washington, February 10, 1858. Ratifications exchanged at Washington, February 12, 1859. Proclaimed by the President of the United States, February 14, 1859. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS an additional article to the convention for the surrender of criminals between the United States and France, of the 9th November, 1843, and [the] additional article thereto of the 24th February, 1845, was concluded and signed at Washington by their respective plenipotentiaries on the 10th day of February, 1858, which additional article, as amended by the Senate of the United States, and being in the English and French languages, is word for word as follows: Additional article to the extradition | Article additionel à la convention d'extradition entre les Etats-Unis Feb. 10, 1858. Preamble. Vol. viii. p. 580. dered. It is agreed between the high Il est convenu entre les hautes Persons charged contracting parties that the provis- parties contractantes que les stipula- with forgery, or passing counterions of the treaties for the mutual tions des traités entre les Etats-Unis feit coin, &c., or extradition of criminals between the d'Amérique et la France, du 9 No- embezzlement, United States of America and vembre, 1843, et du 24 Février, &c., to be surrenFrance, of November 9th, 1843, 1845, pour l'extradition mutuelle and February 24th, 1845, and now des criminels, et actuellement en in force between the two govern- vigueur entre les deux gouvernements, shall extend not only to per-ments, comprendront non seulement sons charged with the crimes therein les personnes accusées des crimes mentioned, but also to persons qui y sont mentionnés, mais aussi les charged with the following crimes, whether as principals, accessories, or accomplices, namely: forging or knowingly passing or putting in circulation counterfeit coin or bank notes or other paper current as money, with intent to defraud any person or persons; embezzlement by any person or persons hired or salaried to the detriment of their employers, when these crimes are sub-partoute personne ou personnes emject to infamous punishment. In witness whereof the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the personnes accusées des crimes sui- ployées ou salariées, au détriment En foi de quoi, les plénipotentiaires Date. |