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Ratified March 24, 1837..... ...... ..... 135 139 143 149 Treaty between the United States of America and the Stockbridge and Munsee Tribe of Indians. Concluded September 3, 1839. Ratified May 13, 1840. Treaty between the United States of America and the Wyandott Nation of Indians. Concluded March 17, 1842. Ratified October 5, 1842.. Treaty between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Siam. Concluded at Bangkok, May 29, 1856. Ratified March 16, 1857. Ratifications exchanged at Bangkok, June 15, 1857. Proclaimed by the President of the United States, August 16, 1858.. Treaty between the United States of America and the Empire of Japan. Concluded at Simoda, June 17, 1857. Ratified and proclaimed by the President of the United States, June 30, 1858 157 Convention between the United States of America and the republic of Peru, interpreting the XIIth article of the treaty of July 26, 1851. Signed at Lima, July 4, 1857. Ratified by the President of the United States, May 7, 1858. Ratifications exchanged at Washington, October 13, 1858. Proclaimed by the President of the United States, October 14, 1858... Convention between the United States and France, agreeing to an additional article to the extradition convention between the two countries. Signed at Washington February 10, 1858. Ratifications exchanged at Washington, February 12, 1859. Proclaimed by the President of the United States, February 14, 1859...... ......... 159 163 Treaty between the United States of America and the Yancton Tribe of Sioux, or Dacotah, Indians. Concluded at Washington, April 19, 1858. Ratified by the Senate, February 16, 1859. Proclaimed by the President of the United States, February 26, 1859... 165 TREATIES. Convention between the Choctaws and Chickasaws. Concluded January Jan. 17, 1837. 17, 1837. Ratified March 24, 1837.* ARTICLES of convention and agreement made on the seventeenth day Negotiators. of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, between the undersigned chiefs and commissioners, duly appointed and empowered by the Choctaw tribe of red People, and John McLish, Pitman Colbert, James Brown, and James Perry, delegates of the Chickasaw tribe of Indians, duly authorized by the chiefs and head men of said people for that purpose, subject to the approval of the President and Senate of the United States. 'trict in the Choc Conditions and ARTICLE I. It is agreed by the Choctaws that the Chickasaws shall Chickasaws have the privilege of forming a district within the limits of their country, may form a disto be held on the same terms that the Choctaws now hold it, except the taw country. right of disposing of it, which is held in common with the Choctaws and Chickasaws, to be called the Chickasaw district of the Choctaw Nation, to have an equal representation in their General Council, and to be placed on an equal footing in every other respect with any of the other districts of said nation, except a voice in the management of the consideration which is given for these rights and privileges; and the Chickasaw people limitations. to be entitled to all the rights and privileges of Choctaws, with the exception of participating in the Choctaw annuities, and the consideration to be paid for these rights and privileges, and to be subject to the same laws to which the Choctaws are; but the Chickasaws reserve to themselves the sole right and privilege of controlling and managing the residue of their funds, as far as is consistent with the late treaty between the said people and the Government of the United States, and of making such regulations and electing such officers for that purpose as they may think proper. ARTICLE II. The Chickasaw district shall be bounded as follows, viz: beginning on the north bank of Red River, at the mouth of Island bayou, about eight or ten miles below the mouth of False Wachitta, thence running north along the main channel of said bayou to its source; thence along the dividing ridge between the Wachitta and Low Blue rivers, to the road leading from Fort Gibson to Fort Wachitta; thence along said road, to the line dividing Mushallatubbee and Pushmatahaw districts; thence, eastwardly, along said district line, to the source of Brushy Creek; thence, down said creek, to where it flows into the Canadian River, ten or twelve miles above the mouth of the south fork of the Canadian; thence, west, along the main Canadian River, to its source, if in the limits of the United States, or to those limits; and thence, due south to Red River, and down Red River to the beginning. ARTICLE III. The Chickasaws agree to pay the Choctaws, as a consideration for these rights and privileges, the sum of five hundred and thirty thousand dollars; thirty thousand of which shall be paid at the time, and in the manner, that the Choctaw annuity of 1837 is paid; and the remaining five hundred thousand dollars to be invested in some safe and secure * Published in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the United States, dated February 9, 1859. Boundaries of district. Payment for these privileges. |