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1182 TREATY WITH THE DELAWARES. JULY 2, 1861. and interest, shall be fully paid. And upon said bonds being so made and deposited, and said mortgage being so executed and duly recordedlrn Leavenworth county, Kansas, all matters, so far as notuiecessarily varied by this arrangement, shall proceed in conformity to said treaty, as if the money had been paid by said Railroad Company and had been invested by the President in said railroad bonds: Provided. always, that this arrangement shall be of no effect until Archibald Williams, Judge of the United States Court for the District of Kansas, shall have endorsed a certificate upon this paper that he has carefully examined the sameaand also the bonds and mortgage offered in compliance with its provisions, and has found that bonds and mortgage do in fact comply with and fulfil said provisions; and also that he has had before him the chiefs and headmen named in said treaty, as John Connor, Sar-cox-1e, Ne~con-he-con, and Rock-a-to-wha, and has fully explained to them the nature and effect of this departure from the terms of said treaty, and that they freely assented to the same. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. JUNE 10, 1861. Fonn of Bond. Form of Bond- $10,000. No. 1. Know all men by these presents: That the Leavenworth, Pawnee, and Western Railroad Company is held and bound to the United States, as trustee for the Delaware tribe of Indians, in the sum of ten thousand dollars, to be paid to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, or bearer, at the office of the Assistant Treasurer of the United States, in the city of New York, in ten years from the date hereof, on the surrender of this bond, with interest on said sum from the same date, at six per cent. per annum, payable annually at the same office, on the surrender, as they severally fall due, of the annexed interest warrants. This bond being one of twenty-nine bonds for sums amounting in the aggregate to $290,560, the payment of which, with the interest warrants attached, is secured by mortgage of even date herewith on one hundred thousand acres of the land acquired by said company, under the conditions and provisions of the treaty between the United States and the Delaware tribe of Indians of May 30, 1860. In witness whereof the Leavenworth, Pawnee, and Western Railroad Company, by Thomas Ewing, Jr., their agent, have signed this obligagpn, apgidiave attached thereto their corporate seal this 14th day of ay, . [SEAL.] Thtey Leavenworth, Pawnee, and Western Railroad Company, THOMAS EWING, Jr., Uzeir Agent. Of Wmant. Form of Warrant. The Leavenworth, Pawnee, and Western Railroad Company promises to pay to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs of the United States or bearer, on the 14th day of May, 1862, at the office of the Assistant Treasurer of the United States, in the city of New York, six hundred dollars, interest due that day on their bond No. 1. Ti;} Leavenworth, Pawnee, and Western Railroad Company, Y THOMAS EWING, Jr., Their Agent.