TREATY WITH THE OSAGES. 1825. 241 said Tribes or Nations; which said reservation shall be surveyed and marked, at the expense of the United States, and upon which, the Agent for said Tribes or Nations and all persons attached to said agency, as, also, such teachers and instructors, as the President may think proper to authorise and permit, shall reside, and shall occupy, and cultivate, without interruption or molestation, such lands as may be necessary for them, And the United States do, hereby, reserve to themselves, for- R,,,,,,,-,,,,;,,,, ever, the right of navigating, freely, all water courses and navigable by U.S. streams, within or running through, the tract of country above reserved to said Tribes or Nations. ARTICLE 3. In consideration of the cession and relinquishment, aforesaid, the Annuity to United States do, hereby, agree to pay to the said tribes or nations, Indians. yearly, and every year, for twenty years, from the date of these presents, the sum of seven thousand dollars, at their Village, or at St. Louis, as the said tribes or nations may desire, either in money, merchandize, provisions, or domestic animals, at their option. And whenever the said annuity, or any part thereof shall be paid in merchandize, the same is to be delivered to them at the first cost of the goods at St. Louis, free of transportation. ARTICLE 4. The United States shall, immediately, upon the ratification of this GattIe,farm. convention, or as soon thereafter as may be, cause to be furnished to the ills ¤*¢¤¤il_¤i&¤· tribes or nations, aforesaid, six hundred head of cattle, six hundred hogs, 3;; f“"““h°d one thousand domestic fowls, ten yoke of oxen, and six carts, with suc_h ` farming utensils as the Superintendant of Indian Affairs may think necessary, and shall employ such persons, to aid them in their agricultural pursuits, as to the President of the United States may seem expedient, and shall, also, provide, furnish, and support for them, one blacksmith, that their farming utensils, tools, and arms, may be seasonably repaired; and shall build, for each of the four principal chiefs, at their respective villages, a comfortable and commodious dwelling house. ARTICLE 5. From the above lands ceded and relinquished, the following reserva- Reservations tions, for the use of the halfibreeds, hereafter named, shall be made, to fw h¤lf·b*<‘=*>d¤· wit: One section, or six hundred and forty acres, for Augustus Clermont, to be located and laid of so as to include Joseph Rivar’s residence, on the East side of the Neosho, a short distance above the Grand Saline, and not nearer than within one mile thereof; one section for each of the following hallibreeds: James, Paul, Henry, Rosalie, Anthony, and Amelia, the daughter of She-me-hunga, and Amelia, the daughter of Mi-hun-ga, to be located two miles below the Grand Saline, and extending down the N eosho, on the East side thereof; and one section for Noel Mongrain, the son of Wa-taw-nagres, and for each of his ten children, Baptiste, Noel, Francis, Joseph, Mongrain, Louis, Victoria, Sophia, Julia, and Juliet: and the like quantity for each of the following named grand-children, of the said Noel Mongrain, to wit: Charles, Francis, Louisson, and Wash, to commence on the Marias des Cygnes, where the Western boundary line of the State of Missouri crosses it at the fork of Mine river, and to extend up Mine river, for quantity: one section for Mary Williams, and one for Sarah Williams, to be located on the North side of the Marias des Cygnet, at the Double Creek, above Harmony; one section, for Francis T. Chardon; one section, for Francis C. Tayon; one section, for James G. Chouteau; one section, for Alexander Chouteau; one section, for Pelagie Antaya ; one section, for Celeste Antaya; one section, for Joseph Anta\ya; one sec- 31
