1040 '1`REATY WITH THE OTTOES AND MISSOURIAS. Maison 15, 1854 issued, revoke the same, or if not issued, cancel the assignment, and may also withhold from such person or family, their proportion of the annuities or other moneys due them, until they shall have returned to such perma. nent home, and resumed the pursuits of industry; and in default of their return, the tract may be declared abandoned, and thereafter assigned to some other person or family of such confederate tribes, or disposed of as is provided for the disposal of the excess of said land. And the residue of the land hereby reserved, after all the Indian persons or families of such oonfederate tribes shall have had assigned to them permanent homes, may be sold for their benefit, under such laws, rules, or regulations as may hereafter be prescribed by the Congress or President of the United States. No State legislature shall remove the restriction herein provided for, without the consent of Congress. Grist and saw Am·1cLn 7. The United States will erect for said confederate tribes ¤¤m¤· at their new home, a grist and saw-mill, and keep the same in repair, Bgmksmgrh, and provide a miller for the term of ten years; also erect a good blaoksmith shop, supply the same with tools, and keep it in repair for the term of ten years, and provide a good blacksmith for a like period, and employ an experienced farmer, for ten years, to instruct the Indians in agriculture. Annuities not Anrronu 8. The annuities of the Indians shall not be taken to pay g*;,§*g_*~‘*‘*°¤ *0* are debts of amiavtsusis. Peace and Amrronn 9. The said confederate tribes acknowledge their dependm°°d$mP· ence on the government of the United States, and promise to be friendly th 0E16B6h of with all the citizens thereof, and pledge themselves to commit no depre- 8 duns' dations on the property of such citizens. And should any one or more of the Indians violate this pledge, and the fact be satisfactorily proven before the agent, the property taken shall be returned, or in default thereof, or if injured or destroyed, compensation may be made by the government out of their annuities. Nor will they make war on any other tribe except in self-defence,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, the same rule shall prevail as that prescribed in this article in cases of depredations against citizens. Y!<>*i¤i<>¤_ Anrrors 10. The Ottoes and Missourias are desirous to exclude Z§`,°§3;:,g’,°;f"` from their country the use of ardent spirits, and to prevent their people liquor. from drinking the same; and therefore it is provided, that any one of ` them who is guilty of bringing liquor into their country, or who drinks liquor, may have his or her proportion of the annuities withheld from him or her for such time, as the President may determine. Roads thwugh Aivrxcnm 11. The said confederate tribes agree, that all the necessary th°I“d’”‘“ 1*** °' roads and highways, and railroads, which may be constructed as the country improves, and the lines of which may run through their land west of the Big Blue River, shall have a. right of way through the reservation, a just compensation being made therefor in money. Payment to Anrxcrn 12. The United States will pay to Lewis Barnard the sum L°"'“ B‘“"‘°’d· of three hundred dollars, he having been in the service of the said tribes and they being unable to pay him. R¤·'il9<>¤¢i0¤¤· ARTICLE 13. This treaty shall be obligatory on the contracting parties as soon as the same shall be ratified by the President and Senate of the United States. In testimony whereof the said George W. Manypenny, commissioner as aforesaid, and the undersigned, chiefs of the said confederate tribes of Ottoes and Missourias, have hereunto set their hands and seals, at the place and on the day and year hereinbefore written. GEORGE W. MANYPENNY, O'0m.mtssioner. [L. s.]
