two carpenters and two blacksmiths, and 4 farm labourers, and 1 physician.

VI. The United States further agree to remove the saw-mill from Gull Lake reservation, to such point on the new reservation hereby set apart as may be selected by the agent, and to keep the same in good running order, and to employ a competent sawyer, so long as the President of The United States may deem it necessary; and to extend the road between Gull Lake and Leech Lake, from the last-named lake to the junction of the Mississippi and Leech Lake Rivers; and to remove the agency to said junction, or as near thereto as practicable.

VII. There shall be a board of visitors, to consist of not less than two nor more than 5 persons, to be selected from such Christian denomination or denominations as the Chiefs in council may designate, whose duty it shall be to present at all annuity payments to the Indians, whether of goods, moneys, provisions, or other articles, and to inspect the fields, buildings, mills, and other improvements, made or to be made, and to report annually thereon on or before the 1st day of November; and also as to the qualifications and moral deportment of all persons residing upon the reservation under the sanction of law or regulation; and they shall receive for their services 5 dollars per day for the time actually employed, and 10 cents per mile for travelling expenses, provided that no one shall be paid in any one year for more than 20 days' service, or for more than 300 miles' travel.

VIII. No person shall be recognized as a Chief whose band numbers less than 50 persons; and to encourage and aid the said Chiefs in preserving order and inducing by their example and advice the members of their respective bands to adopt the pursuits of civilized life, there shall be paid to each of said Chiefs, annually, out of the annuities of said bands, a sum not exceeding 150 dollars, to be determined by their agent, according to their respective merits.

IX. To improve the morals and industrial habits of said Indians it is agreed that no agent, teacher, interpreter, traders or their employés, shall be employed, appointed, licensed, or permitted to reside within the reservations belonging to the Indians, parties to this Treaty, missionaries excepted, who shall not have a family residing with them at their respective places of employment or trade within the agency, whose moral habits and fitness shall be reported upon annually by the board of visitors, and no person of full or mixed blood, educated or partially educated, whose fitness, morally or otherwise, is not conducive to the welfare of said Indians, shall receive any benefits from this or any former Treaties, and may be expelled from the reservation.

X. All annuities under this or former Treaties shall be paid as the Chiefs in council may request, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, until otherwise altered or amended, which shall be done whenever the board of visitors, by the request of the Chiefs, may recommend it, provided that no change shall take place oftener than once in two years.

XI. Whenever the services of labourers are required upon the reservation, preference shall be given to full or mixed bloods, if they shall be found competent to perform them.

XII. It shall not be obligatory upon the Indians, parties to this Treaty, to remove from their present reservations, until The United States shall have first complied with the stipulations of Articles IV and VI of this Treaty, when The United States shall furnish them with all necessary transportion and subsistence to their new homes, and subsistence for 6 months thereafter: provided that, owing to the heretofore good conduct of the Mille Lac Indians, they shall not be compelled to remove so long as they shall not in any way interfere with or in any manner molest the persons or property of the whites.

XIII. Female members of the family of any Government employé residing on the reservation, who shall teach Indian girls domestic economy, shall be allowed and paid a sum not exceeding 10 dollars per month while so engaged: provided that not more than 1,000 dollars shall be so expended during any one year, and that the President of The United States may suspend or annul this Article whenever he may deem it expedient to do so.

XIV. It is distinctly understood and agreed that the clearing and breaking of land for the Chippewas of the Mississippi, as provided for in Árticle IV of this Treaty, shall be in lieu of all former engagements of The United States as to the breaking of lands for those bands.

In testimony whereof, the said William P. Dole and Clark W. Thompson, on behalf of The United States, and Henry M. Rice and the undersigned Chiefs and Headmen, on behalf of the Indians, parties to this Treaty, have hereunto set their hands and affixed their seals this 11th day of March, A.D., 1863.

WM. P. DOLE, Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

CLARK W. THOMPSON,

Supt. of Indian Affairs for the Northern Superintendency. HENRY M. RICE, and 25 Chiefs and Headmen.

Executed in presence of

E. A. C. HATCH, and 9 others.

And whereas, the said Treaty having been submitted to the Senate of the United States for its constitutional action thereon,

the Senate did, on the 13th day of March, 1863, advise and consent to the ratification of the same by a resolution with amendments in the words and figures following, to wit:

IN EXECUTIVE SESSION, SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES,

March 13, 1863. "Resolved (two-thirds of the Senators present concurring), That the Senate advise and consent to the ratification of the Articles of Agreement and Convention made and concluded at the city of Washington, the 11th day of March, A.D. 1863, between William P. Dole, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and Clark W. Thompson, Superintendent of Indian Affairs of the Northern Superintendency, on the part of The United States, and Henry M. Rice, of Minnesota, for and on behalf of the Chippewas of the Mississippi, and the Pillager and Lake Winibigoshish bands of Chippewa Indians in Minnesota,' with the following

"AMENDMENTS:

"Article III, line 8, strike out '30,000,' and insert: 20,000.' "Article III, line 9, after the word 'dollars' insert: 'Or so much thereof as may be necessary, provided that no money shall be paid under this item, except upon claims which have been duly adjudicated and found to be due under existing Treaties, from said Indians, and allowed by the Secretary of the Interior, or under his direction."

"Article III, lines 9, 10, and 11, strike out the following words: '3rd, To enable said Indians to pay their present just engagements, the sum of 30,000 dollars, as the Chiefs in council may direct."

"Article IV. At the end thereof, insert: Provided, That the amount expended under this Article shall not exceed the sum of 3,600 dollars.'

"Article V. At the end thereof insert: Not exceeding in the aggregate 1,000 dollars.'

"Article VI. At the end thereof insert: But not more than 3,000 dollars shall be expended for this purpose.'

"Article VII. Strike out this Article, and in lieu thereof insert the following:

"Article VII. The President shall appoint a board of visitors, to consist of not less than 2 nor more than 3 persons, to be selected from such Christian denominations as he may designate, whose duty it shall be to attend the annuity payments to the Indians, and to inspect the fields and other improvements of the Indians, and to report annually thereon on or before the 1st of November; and also as to the qualifications and moral deportment of all persons residing upon the reservation under the authority of law; and they shall receive for their services 5 dollars per day for the time actually

employed, and 10 cents per mile for travelling expenses: Provided, That no one shall be paid in any one year for more than 20 days' service, or for more than 300 miles' travel.'

"Article VIII, line 10, strike out their agent,' and insert: the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.'

"Article IX, line 7, strike out the word family,' and insert 'lawful wife.'

"Article IX, lines 9, 10, and 11, strike out whose moral habits and fitness shall be reported upon annually by the board of visitors.' "Article IX, line 16, strike out the words and may be expelled from the reservation.'

"Article X, lines 5, 6, 7, and 8, strike out: 'which shall be done whenever the board of visitors, by the request of the Chiefs, may recommend it, provided that no change shall take place oftener than once in two years.'

"Article X. At the end of Article X, as amended, insert the following: 'Provided, That not less than one-half of said annuities shall be paid in necessary clothing, provisions, and other necessary and useful articles.'

Attest:

J. W. FORNEY, Secretary. By W. HICKEY, Chief Clerk.

And whereas the foregoing amendments having been fully interpreted and explained to the said Henry M. Rice, Commissioner, and the hereinafter named Chiefs and headmen of the various bands of Chippewa Indians of the Mississippi, and the Pillagers, parties to the foregoing Treaty, they did, on the 14th day of March, 1863, at the city of Washington, in the district of Columbia, give their free and voluntary assent to the same, in the words and figures following, to wit:

We, the Undersigned, Chiefs and headmen of the various bands of Chippewa Indians of the Mississippi, and the Pillagers, parties to the foregoing Treaty, concluded between The United States and the Chippewas of the Mississippi, on the 11th day of March, 1863, hereby give our free and voluntary assent to the amendments thereto made by the Senate on the 13th day of March, 1863, after having the said amendments fully explained to us.

In testimony whereof, we have hereunto subscribed our names and affixed our seals, at the city of Washington, this 14th day of March, A.D. 1863.

Signed in presence of—

HENRY M. RICE, Commissioner,

and 25 Chiefs and Headmen.

D. GEO. MORRISON, and 11 others.

CONSTITUTION of the United States of Columbia.-Rio Negro, May 8, 1863.

(Translation.)

THE NATIONAL CONVENTION, in the name and by the authority of the people and of the United States of Colombia which it represents, has decreed the following

POLITICAL CONSTITUTION.

CHAP. I.-The Nation.

ART. I. The Sovereign States of Antioquia, Bolivar, Boyaca, Cauca, Cundinamarca, Magdalena, Panama, Santander, and Tolima, created respectively by the Acts of the 27th of February, 1855, 11th of June, 1856, 13th of May, 1857, 15th of June of the same year, 12th of April, 1861, and 3rd of September of the same year, consulting their exterior security and mutual aid, do unite and confederate in perpetuity, and form a free, sovereign, and independent nation, by the name of "United States of Colombia."

II. The said States undertake mutually to aid and defend each other against all violence affecting the sovereignty of the Union or of the States.

III. The limits of the territory of the United States of Colombia are the same as those which in 1810 separated the territory of the Viceroyalty of New Granada from that of the Captain-Generalships of Venezuela and Guatemala and from that of the Portuguese possessions of Brazil; on the south they are, provisionally, those designated in the Treaty concluded with the Government of Equator on the 9th of July, 1856,* and such others as now separate it from the said Republic and from that of Peru.

IV. Those Sovereign States into which one or more of the existing ones may be divided, agreeably to the following Article, shall also form part of the same nationality, as well as those which, being entirely independent, agree to unite themselves to the Union by Treaties duly entered into.

V. The federal law may decree the creation of new States by dismembering the population and the territory of existing ones, when such may be solicited by the Legislature or Legislatures of the State or States from whose territory the new State is to be formed, upon condition that each of the newly created States shall contain, at least, 100,000 inhabitants, and that after the segregation the original States still contain not less than 150,000 inhabitants each.

§. The limits of the States recognized in Article I cannot be changed or altered except with the consent and agreement of the States interested therein, and with the approbation of the General Government.

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