640 TREATY WITH THE SIOUX INDIANS. APRIL 29, 1868. m5_l¤i*931 $3*8 Aarrcrm XIII. The United States hereby agrees to furnish annually Smgnrglwaghzps, to the Indians the physician, teachers, carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer, Gm. i and blacksmiths, as herein contemplated, and that such appropriations shall be made from time to time, on the estimates of the Secretary of the Interior, as will be sufficient to employ such persons. Presents for Aartotm XIV. It is agreed that the sum of five hundred dollars an- °°“°'°P“‘ nually, for three years from date, shall be expended in presents to the ten persons of said tribe who in the judgment of the agent may grow the most valuable crops for the respective year. b R¤¤¤¤"¤l=i¤¤:¤> Anrxcnn XV. The Indians herein named agree that when the agency hg,£gr:;·°g.?§Bs_ house and other buildings shall be constructed on the reservation named, they will regard said reservation their permanent home, and the}' will make no permanent settlement elsewhere ; but they shall have the right, subject to the conditions and modifications of this treaty, to hunt, as stipulated in Article XI. hereofi U¤°9d¤d I¤di· Anrrcnn XVI. 'I‘he United States hereby agrees and stipulates that the M i’°mmy‘ country north of the North Platte river and east of the summits of the Big Horn mountains shall be held and considered to be unceded Indian territowggdlg be °°· ry, and also stipulates and agrees that no white person or persons shall be wh,,,,, gg permitted to settle upon or occupy any portion of the same; or without the consent of the Indians, first had and obtained, to pass through the same; and it is further agreed by the United States, that within ninety days after the conclusion of peace with all the bands of the Sioux nation, the military posts now established in the territory in this article named shall be abandoned, and that the road leading to them and by them to the settlements in the Territory of Montana shall be closed. Mig}: fgntliis A1tT10L1t XVII. It is hereby expressly understood and agreed by and mg, ,,.e,l;,°,_ °r` between the respective parties to this treaty that the execution of this treaty and its ratification by the United States Senate shall have the effect, and shall be construed as abrogating and annulling all treaties and agreements heretofore entered into between the respective parties hereto, so far as such treaties and agreements obligate the United States to furnish and provide money, clothing, or other articles of property to such Indpxns and bands of Indians as become parties to this treaty, but no urt er. mfgxgiinw In testimony of all which, we, the said commissioners, and we, the ` chiefs and headmen of the Brulé band of the Sioux nation, have hereunto set our hands and seals at Fort Laramie, Dakota Territory, this twenty-ninth day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight. N. G. TAYLOR, snr.. W. T. SHERMAN, SEAL. Ll. Genl WM. S. HARNEY, [snsarh] Bvt. Ma`. Gen. U . . JOHN B. SANBOSN, €SEAL. S. F. TAPPAN, san,. C. C. AUGUR, B M[s1·Ex8L. vt. aj. n . ALFRED H. TERRY, [snail;] A Bvt. M Gen. U S. . ttest: A. S. H. Wmrn, Secretary. Executed on the part of the Brulé band of Sioux by the chiefs and headmen whose names are hereto annexed, they being thereunto duly authoxsid, agégurt Laramie, D. T., the twenty-ninth day of April, in th6 year . 1 .
