978 TREATY WITH THE FLATHEADS, &c. JULY 16, 1855. Indians to pay any one or more of them violate this pledge, and the fact he satisfactorily f°*' d°P*°d“i°°5- proved before the agent, the property taken shall be returned, or in dg. fault thereof, or if injured or destroyed, compensation may be made by uctw mnko the government out of the annuities. Nor will they make war on any W¤·¤‘ °¤¤°P*» &° other tribe except in seifidefénce, but will submit all matters of difference between them and other Indians to the government of the United States, or its agent, for decision, and abide thereby. And if any of the said Indians commit any depredations on any other Indians within the jurisdiction of the United States, the same rule shall prevail as that prescribed in this article, in casa of depredations against citizens. And the said tcsurreuder tribes agree not to shelter or conceal ofenders against the laws of the °*°“d°"“· United States, but to deliver them up to the authorities for trial. Anuuitiosto ARTICLE IX. The said ccnfcdcratcd tribes desire to exclude from their
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gw., adm; gpirl drinking the same; and therefore it is provided that any Indian belonging iw- m said coufederated tribes of Indians who is guilty of bringing liquor imo ‘ said reservation, or who drinks liquor, may have his or her proportion of the annuities withheld from him or her for such time as the President ma. determine. Guarqnty of ARTICLE X. The United States further agree to guaranty the exclufgafgggtégfmin sive use of the reservation provided for in this treaty, as against any 0;,,;,,,, ,,;;;.1.;.,.,,, claims which may be urged by the Hudson Bay Company under the pro- B¤y 0¤mp=¤¤y- visions of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain of the V<>l·i=·P·870· fifteenth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-six, in consequence of the occupation of a. trading posh on the Pru-in River by the servants of that company. Bitter Root Amxcm XI. It is, moreover, provided that the Bitter R60I. Valley, xg? fugc gf); above the Loo-10 fork, shall be carefully surveyed and examined, and if fjgug Lmy bg m it shall prove, in the judgment of the President, to be better adapted to 3*:* f'¤1‘ 1‘¤¤¢¤’¤· Phe wants of the Flathead tribe than the general reservation provided for m this treaty, then such portions of it as may be necessary shall be set meanwhile not apart as a, separate reservation for the said tribe. No portion of the ggtggggsaw *°*’ Bitter Root Valley, above the Loo-10 fork, shall be opened to settlement Emil such examination is had and the decision of the President made nown. whenh-mtyh, ARTICLE XII. This treaty shall be obligatory upon the contracting take exfect. parties as soon as the same shall be ratified by the President and Senate of the United States. Signatures, In testimony whereof; the said Isaac I. Stevens vernor and su erin- MY Ns ms- tendent of Indian affairs for the Territory of Washgiigton, and the iihdcrsigned head chiefs, chiefs and principal men of the Flathead, Kootenay, and Upper Pend d’Or<-zilles tribes of Indians, have hereunto set their Itguads aud seals, at the place and on the day and year hcrcinbefore writu. ISAAC I. STEVENS, L. s. Governor and Superintendent Indian Aj"az'rs [W VICTOR, fkad chiqf of the Flathead Nation, his x mark. [L. s.`] ALEXANDER, O'/ziqf of ihc Upper Pend ` ul’ Oreilles, his x mark. [L. s.] MICHELLE, Chia;]" of the Kootmqys, his x mark. [L. s. AMBROSE, his x mark. L. s. PAH-SOH, his x mark. L. s.] BEAR TRACK, his x mark. L. S.] ADQLPHL, his x mark. L. s.] THUNDER, his x mark. [L. s.] EIC} CANOE, his x mark. a L. s.] OOTEL CHAH, his x mark. L. s.] PAUL, his x mark. [L. s._]
