TRELTY WITH THE NEZ PERCE INDIANS. JUNE 9, 1863. 651 M. and Com. Oregon volunteers, on the 6th of March, 1856, at Camp Cornelius, and amounting to the sum of four thousand six hundred and sixty-tive dollars, shall be paid to them in full, in gold coin. Anrxcuz VIII. It is also understood that the aforesaid tribe do hereby Authority,&e., renew their acknowledgments of dependence upon the government of the §*`*:‘° U¤;°°d L United States, their promises of friendship, and other pledges, as set forth miie? ac mw in the eighth article of the treaty of June 11th, 1855; and further, that VI>1.xii. p.960. all the provisions of said treaty which are not abrogated or specifically changed by any article herein contained, shall remain the same to all intents and purposes as formerly, — the same obligations resting upon the United States, the same privileges continued to the Indians outside of the reservation, and the same rights secured to citizens of the U. S. as to right of way upon the streams and over the roads which may run through said reservation, as are therein set forth. But it is further provided, that the United States is the only competent _Roads and authority to declare and establish such necessary roads and highways, and h‘$b"“Y" that no other right is intended to be hereby granted to citizens of the United States than the right of way upon or over such roads as may thus be legally established: Provided, however, That the roads now usually travelled shall, in the mean time, be taken and deemed as within the meaning of this article, until otherwise enacted by act of Congress, or by the authority of the Indian department. And the said tribe hereby consent, that upon the public roads which Hotelsand may run across the reservation there may be established, at such points ‘°“K° “"““d" as shall be necessary for public convenience, hotels or stage stands, of the number and necessity of which the agent or superintendent shall be the sole judge, who shall be competent to license the same, with the privilege of using such amount of land for pasturage and other purposes connected with such establishment as the agent or superintendent shall deem necessary, it being understood that such lands for` pasturage are to be enclosed, and the boundaries thereof described in the license. And it is further understood and agreed that all ferries and bridges Ferries and within the reservation shall be held and managed for the benedt of said b¤'idK°¤• tribe. Such rules and regulations shall be made by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, as shall regulate the travel on the highways, the management of the ferries and bridges, the licensing of public houses, and the leasing of lands, as herein provided, so that the rents, profits, and issues thereof shall inure to the benefit of said tribe, and so that the persons thus licensed, or necessarily employed in any of the above relations, shall be subject to the control of the Indian department, and to the provisions of the act of Congress " to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers." All timber within the bounds of the reservation is exclusively the prop- Timbererty of the tribe, excepting that the U. S. government shall be permitted to use thereof for any purpose connected with its aifairs, either in carry- ing out any of the provisions of this treaty, or in the maintaining of its necessary forts or garrisons. The United States also agree to reserve all springs or fountains not Springs or adjacent to, or directly connected with, the streams or rivers within the *`°“”“°·'”· lands hereby relinquished, and to keep back from settlement or entry so much of the surrounding land as may be necessary to prevent the said springs or fountains being enclosed; and, further, to preserve a perpetual right of way to and from the same, as watering places, for the use in common of both whites and Indians. Anrrcnm IX. Inasmuch as the Indians in council have expressed Bohm Nawé!] their desire that Robert Newell should have confirmed to him a piece of tllgfffgssuw land lying between Snake and Clearwater rivers, the same having been or land,
