Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 12.djvu/1017

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TREATY WITH INDIANS IN MIDDLE OREGON. JUNE 25, 1855. 965 ceded, the United States agree to pay the bands and tribes of Indians Ps ents by claiming territory and residing in said country, the several sums of money *l*° lK’?*°d following, to wit: S*“°’- Eight thousand dollars per annum for the first live years, commencing on the first day of September, 1856, or as soon thereafter as practicable. Six thousand dollars per annum for the term of five years next succeeding the first live. Four thousand dollars per annum for the term of five years next succeeding the second five ; and Two thousand dollars per annum for the term of Eve years next succeeding the third five. All of which several sums of money shall be expended for the use and How tv be cxbenefit lof the confederated bandsyunder the direction of the President of P°“d°d‘ the United States, who may from time to time at his discretion determine what proportion thereof shall be expended for such objects as in his judgment will promote their well-being and advance them in civilization; for their moral improvement and education; for building, opening and fencing farms, breaking land, providing teams, stock, agricultural implements, seeds, &c.; for clothing, provisions, and tools; for medical purposes, providing mechanics and farmers, and for arms and ammunition. Airrrcnn III. The United States agree to pay said Indians the addi- _ $@000 laditional sum of fifty thousand dollars, a portion whereof shall be applied to t'§§3Lg°,-£° "` the payment for such articles as may be advanced them at the time of hundlngadvc. signing this treaty, and in providing, after the ratidcation thereof, and prior to their removal, such articles as may be deemed by the President essential to their want; for the erection of buildings on the reservation, fencing and opening farms; for the purchase of teams, farming implements, clothing and provisions, tools, seeds, and for the payment of employees; and for subsisting the Indians the first year after their removal. Anrrxcnn IV. In addition to the considerations specified, the United United States States agree to erect, at suitable points on the reservation, one saw-mi1l§n‘?*°‘:s,j:;{‘ and one flooring-mill; suitable hospital buildings; one school house; one h,,,,:],, gw_ ` blacksmith shop with a tin and a gunsmith shop thereto attached; one wagon and ploughmaker shop ; and for one sawyer, one miller, one superintendent of farming operations, a farmer, a physician, a school teacher, a blacksmith, and a wagon and ploughmaker, a dwelling house and the requisite outbuildings for each; and to purchase and keep in repair for the time specified for furnishing employees, all necessary mill fixtures, mechanics tools, medicines and hospital stores, books and stationery for schools, and furniture for employees. , The United States further engage to secure and pay for the services tofurnish · and subsistence, for the term of fifteen years, of one farmer, one black- fggmelp !¥¤<;h¤¤· smith, and one wagon and ploughmaker; and for the term of twenty Qwjp ym "’ years, of one physician, one sawyer, one miller, one superintendent of farming operations, and one school teacher. The United States also engage to erect four dwelling houses; one for to erm the head chief of the oonfederated bands, and one each for the Upper and gLW°¥;¤§ml;g¤¤°¤» Lower De Chutes bands of Walla-Wallas, and for the Waseopum band csgcfsr of Wascoes, and to fence and plough for each of the said chiefs ten acres. of land ; also to pay the head chief of the confederated bands a salary of five hundred dollars per annum for twenty years, commencing six months after the three principal bands named in this treaty shall have removed to the reservation, or as soon thereafter as a head chief should be elected: And provided also, That at any time, when by the death, resignation, or S,,,,,,,,,.,,,-,, of removal of the chief selected, there shall be a vacancy, and a successor psp2t5g:`? to appointed or selected, the salary, the dwelling and improvements shall be possessed by said successor, so long as he shall occupy the position as head chief; so also with reference to the dwellings and improvements