the unoccupied lands of the White Earth reservation are thrown open for all of the tribes and bands of the Chippewas in Minnesota, the Indians occupying the reservation, which contains about 800,000 acres, being first permitted to make selections for themselves. The quantity of land each Indian will be entitled to receive under the agreement is as follows: "Each head of a family, 160 acres; each single person over eighteen years of age, 80 acres; each orphan child under eighteen years of age, 80 acres; each other person under eighteen years of age, 40 acres. Every Indian will receive a patent which shall be of the legal effect, and declare that the United States will hold the lands thus allotted for the period of fifty years, and such further time as the President may direct, in trust for the allottee or his heirs according to the laws of Minnesota. At the expiration of the fifty years the land is to be conveyed to the allottees in fee." It is also provided that the laws of marriage, descent, and partitions in force in the State of Minnesota, shall apply thereto after the first patents therefor shall have been executed and delivered. The Indians are to have the benefit of, and be subject to the criminal laws of, the state in all offences, the penalty for which is death or imprisonment in the state penitentiary. The residue of lands, after all allotments have been made, is to be patented by the consolidated tribes in common, and held in trust as in the case of individual allotments, and every child who may be born within the fifty years' limit is to have a tract of 40 acres. Provision is made for the support of the Indians removing to White Earth, to be continued until they are able to take care of themselves, but in no event to exceed two years. Each head of a family, and each male Indian over | eighteen years of age when he becomes a permanent resident upon his allotment, will be provided with a comfortable hewn loghouse, a coal stove, a yoke of oxen, a waggon, a plough, a cow, an axe and other implements of husbandry; each Indian shall have 5 acres of land broken for him, and be furnished with seed for his first crop. Industrial and district schools are to be established for all of the children on the reservation. By the second agreement with the Red Lake band of Chippewas, about two-thirds of their reservation, or an area estimated to contain over 2,000,000 acres, is ceded to the United States, to be sold for the benefit of the Indians. The portion ceded embraces a vast timber zone, said to be of almost incalculable value. The funds derived from these sales are to be placed in the Treasury to the credit of the Red Lake Indians, and bear interest, which is to be expended in their civilisation and education, and in making improvements on their reservation. (The writer is indebted to the New York World' of December 11, 1886, for this paragraph.) The sums necessary for the purpose of paying the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department for the year ending June 30, 1887, and fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian tribes, included the pay of 60 agents of Indian affairs at named agencies, at salaries ranging from $1000 to $2000; and for the Eastern Cherokee Indians, $800 in all $89,300; for interpreters to be distributed in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, $25,000,-but no person employed by the United States, and paid for any other service, shall be paid for interpreting. Also sums for the pay of five Indian inspectors; one Indian school superintendent ; and for the expenses of the commis Chippewas, Pillagers, and Lake Winnebigoshish Bands- money goods of utility Choctaws $10,666.66 For thirty-second of forty instalments of annuity in 8,000.00 For thirty-second of forty instalments for purposes 4,000.00 22,666.66 Brought forward Creeks-continued. For permanent annuity for the pay of a wheelwright For interest on $200,000 for purposes of education (treaty of 1856) For interest on $675,168, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior (treaty of 1866) Crows For fifth of twenty-five instalments, to be used by $30,000 6,000 4,000 5,000 1,200 1,500 3,300 60,000 112,500.00 Iowas For interest, in lieu of investment, on $57,500, balance of $157,500, to July 1, 1886, for education or other beneficial purposes, under the direction of the President 2,875.00 For last of twenty instalments for keeping in repair one sawmill, one flouring mill, buildings for the blacksmith, carpenter, waggon and plough maker, the manual-labour school, and hospital Miamies of Kansas For permanent provision for blacksmith and assistant, and iron and steel for shop 1,000.00 $411.43 For permanent provision for miller, in lieu of gunsmith For interest on $21,884.81 for educational purposes. Miamies of Eel River For permanent annuity in goods or otherwise (treaty of 1792) $500 For permanent annuity in goods or otherwise (treaty of 1805) 250 For permanent annuity in goods or otherwise (treaty of 1809) 350 1,100.00 Molels For pay of teachers and for manual-labour schools, and for all necessary materials therefor, and for the subsistence of the pupils Nez Perces 3,000.00 For salaries of two matrons to take charge of the boarding-schools and two assistant teachers, one farmer, one carpenter, two millers 3,500.00 Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes For eighth of ten instalments to be expended by the Secretary of the Interior, for each Indian engaged in agriculture, in the purchase of such articles as from time to time the condition and necessities of the Indians may indicate to be proper, and for subsistence as per agreement with the Sioux Indians For eighteenth of thirty instalments for purchase of clothing, provided that the amount in this and the preceding paragraph be expended pro rata as near as may be for the Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes in Wyoming, and on the Tongue river in Montana For pay of physician, two teachers, two carpenters, one miller, two farmers, a blacksmith, and engineer $30,000 12,000 9,000 51,000.00 Omahas For fourth of twelve instalments, being last series, in money or otherwise 10,000.00 Osages For interest on $69,120, being value of fifty-four sections of land set apart for educational purposes 3,456.00 Otoes and Missourias For fourth of twelve instalments, being the last series, in money or otherwise. 5,000.00 Carry forward $435,975.22 For permanent annuity, in silver (treaty of 1795) For permanent provision for payment of money in For permanent provision for fifty barrels of salt Pottawatomies of Huron $30,000 10,000 $435,975.22 5,400 500 47,100.00 $8,000 5,000 15,000 28,000.00 $357.80 178.90 894.50 715.60 5,724.77 107.34 1,008.99 156.54 11,503.21 20,647.65 400.00 Provided that $1500 be used for the pay of a physician and for medicines. Carry forward $584,622.87 For permanent annuity, in money or otherwise Quapaws |