ARTIKEL VI.

Gegenwärtiger Vertrag ist ab geschlossen worden, vorbehaltlich der Ratification Sr. Majestät des Kaisers von Oesterreich und vorbehaltlich der Ratification des Praesidenten der Vereinigten Staaten von Nord-America nach und mit dem Rathe und der Einwilligung des Nord - Americanischen Senates; und es soll die Auswechslung der Ratifications urkunden innerhalb Jahresfrist vom Tage der Unterzeichnung des gegenwärtigen Vertrages an gerechnet oder früher, wenn es möglich ist, in Washington statt finden.

Urkundlich dessen haben die beiderseitigen Bevollmächtigten oben stehende Artikel so wohl in Deutscher als Englischer Sprache unterzeichnet und ihre Siegel beigedrückt.

Ausgestellt zu Washington den achten May ein tausend acht hundert und acht und vierzig, im vierzehnten Jahre der Regierung Seiner Majestät des Kaisers von Oesterreich, und im zwei und sieberzigsten Jahre der Unabhängingkeit der Vereinigten Staaten von Nord-America.

HÜLSEMANN, [L. s.]

* RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.

February 13th, 1850.

Whereas the time limited by the 6th article of the convention for the extension of certain stipulations contained in the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation of August 27, 1829, between the United States of America and his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, concluded at the city of Washington, the 8th May, 1848, has expired before the ratification of the said convention by the Senate, be it therefore,

Resolved, (two thirds of the senators present concurring,) That the Senate advise and consent to the exchange of ratifications of the convention aforesaid, at any time prior to the fourth day of July next, whenever the same shall be offered by his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, and the said ratifications shall be deemed and taken to have been regularly exchanged, the limitation contained in said convention to the contrary notwithstanding.

Attes:

ASBURY DICKINS, Secretary.

TREATY WITH THE PAWNEES.

Aug. 6, 1848.

Treaty ratified

Articles of Agreement and Convention made this sixth Day of August, A. D. 1848, at Fort Childs, near the Head of Grand Island, on the south Side of the Nebraska or Great Platte River, between LieutenantColonel Ludwell E. Powell, commanding Battalion Missouri Mounted Jan. 8, 1849. Volunteers, en route to Oregon, in Behalf of the United States, and the Chiefs and Headmen of the Four Confederated Bands of Pawnees, viz.: Grand Pawnees, Pawnee Loups, Pawnee Republicans, and Pawnee Tappage, at present residing on the south Side of the Platte River.

ARTICLE I.

Land ceded to

The confederated bands of the Pawnees hereby cede and relinquish to the United States all their right, title, and interest in and to all that the U. States. tract of land described as follows, viz.: Commencing on the south side of the Platte River five miles west of this post," Fort Childs; " thence due north to the crest of the bluffs north of said Platte River; thence east and along the crest of said bluffs to the termination of Grand Island, supposed to be about sixty miles distant; thence south to the southern shore of said Platte River; and thence west and along the southern shore of the said Platte River to the place of beginning.

The land hereby conveyed is designated within the red lines of the following plat.

[NOTE. The red lines in the original plat are designated by dotted lines in this copy.]

In consideration of the fore

In consideration of the land hereby ceded and relinquished, the United States has this day paid, through Captain Stewart Van Vliet, going cession, assistant quartermaster United States army, under an order from the U. States has Lieutenant-Colonel Ludwell E. Powell, commanding battalion Missouri mounted volunteers, to the said four bands collectively, on the execution of this treaty, the amount of two thousand dollars in goods and merchandise, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged.

paid to the said four bands two thousand dollars in goods and

merchandise.

The U. States

to have the priv

ilege of using timber upon Wood River.

ARTICLE III.

The United States shall have the privilege of using any hard timber that may at any time be needed, situate upon Wood River, immediately north of the land hereby conveyed.

ARTICLE IV.

Friendship and

fidelity to the U.

The Pawnee nation renew their assurance of friendship for the white States pledged men, their fidelity to the United States, and their desire for peace with all the neighboring tribes of Indians.

by the Pawnees.

Should difficul

ties arise, the pute to be left to

matter in dis

arbitration.

The Pawnee nation, therefore, faithfully promise not to molest or injure the property or person of any white citizen of the United States wherever found, nor to make war upon any tribes with whom said Paw nee tribes now are, or may hereafter be, at peace; but, should any difficulty arise, they agree to refer the matter in dispute to such arbitration as the President of the United States may direct.

ARTICLE V.

These articles of agreement and convention shall be binding and obligatory from this sixth day of August, A. D. 1848.

In testimony whereof, the said Lieutenant-Colonel Ludwell E. Powell, commanding battalion Missouri mounted volunteers, and the chiefs and headmen of the four confederated bands of Grand Pawnees, Pawnee Loups, Pawnee Republicans, and Pawnee Tappage, have hereunto signed their names, and affixed their seals, on the day and year aforesaid.

LUDWELL E. POWELL,

Lt. Col. Com'g Bat. Mo. Mounted Volunteers.

CHEF MA-LAIGNE,

Oct. 18, 1848.

Ratified Jan.

23, 1849.

Peace and

TREATY WITH THE MENOMONEE TRIBE OF INDIANS.

Articles of a Treaty made and concluded at Lake Pow-aw-hay-kon-nay, in the State of Wisconsin, on the eighteenth Day of October, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, between the United States of America, by William Medill, a Commissioner duly appointed for that purpose, and the Menomonee Tribe of Indians, by the Chiefs, Headmen, and Warriors of said Tribe.

ARTICLE I.

It is stipulated and solemnly agreed that the peace and friendship friendship to be now so happily subsisting between the government and people of the perpetual. United States and the Menomonee Indians shall be perpetual.

The Menomo

nees cede to the U. S. all their

lands in Wisconsin.

In considera

tion of the foregoing cession the U.S. give to said tribe for a home ded by the Chip

certain lands ce

pewas.

In further consideration the U. S. agree to pay three hundred

and fifty thou sand dollars, viz: To the chiefs to settle the affairs of the tribe, &c., $30,000.

To certain persons of mixed Slood, $40,000.

For expenses

ARTICLE II.

The said Menomonee tribe of Indians agree to cede, and do hereby cede, sell, and relinquish to the United States all their lands in the State of Wisconsin wherever situated.

ARTICLE III.

In consideration of the foregoing cession, the United States agree to give, and do hereby give, to said Indians for a home, to be held as Indians' lands are held, all that country or tract of land ceded to the said United States by the Chippewa Indians of the Mississippi and Lake Superior, in the treaty of August 2, 1847, and the Pillager band of Chippewa Indians, in the treaty of August 21, 1847, which may not be assigned to the Winnebago Indians, under the treaty with that tribe of October 13, 1846, and which is guarantied to contain not less than six hundred thousand acres.

ARTICLE IV.

In further and full consideration of said cession, the United States agree to pay the sum of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, at the several times, in the manner and for the purposes following, viz. :

To the chiefs, as soon after the same shall be appropriated by Congress as may be convenient to enable them to arrange and settle the affairs of their tribe preparatory to their removal to the country set apart for and given to them as above, thirty thousand dollars.

To such persons of mixed blood, and in such proportion to each, as the chiefs in council, and a commissioner to be appointed by the President, shall designate and determine, and as soon after the appropriation thereof as may be found practicable and expedient, forty thousand dollars.

In such manner and at such times as the President shall prescribe, of removal, in consideration of their removing themselves, which they agree to do, $20,000. without further cost or expense to the United States, twenty thousand dollars.

For subsistence

for one year af ter removal, $20,000.

For a manual

In such manner and at such times as the President shall prescribe, in consideration of their subsisting themselves the first year after their removal, which they agree to do, without further cost or expense on the part of the United States, twenty thousand dollars.

To be laid out and applied, under the direction of the President, in