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ARTICLE XIX.

Difference botween the United

States and British

In consideration of two cents United States currency not being precisely equivalent to one penny sterling, the British Post Office shall account to the United States Post Office at the rate counted for. currency to be acof four hundred and eighty-four cents to the pound sterling; and the United States Post Office shall account to the British' Post Office at the rate of four hundred and eighty cents to the pound sterling.

ARTICLE XX.

Case of war be

for.

In case of war between the two nations, the mail packets of tween the two the two offices shall continue their navigation without impedi- nations provided ment or molestation until six weeks after a notification shall have been made on the part of either of the two Governments, and delivered to the other, that the service is to be discontinued; in which case they shall be permitted to return freely, and under special protection, to their respective ports.

ARTICLE XXI.

Forms in which

between the respec

with other details,

after exchange of

The forms in which the accounts between the respective accounts Post Offices for the transmission and conveyance of letters are tive Post Offices to be made out, the time and mode in which payment shall be shall be made out, made by either Post Office to the other, together with all other &c., to be settled measures of detail arising out of the stipulations of the present ratifications. convention, shall be settled between the Post Office of the United States and the British Post Office, as soon as possible after the exchange of the ratifications of the present convention. It is also agreed that the measures of detail mentioned in the tail may be mo present article may be modified by the two Post Offices whenever, by mutual consent, those offices shall have decided that such modification would be beneficial to the Post Office service of the two countries.

ARTICLE XXII.

Measures of de.

dified.

tion indefinite; &

The present convention is concluded for an indefinite period. Present conven. It cannot be annulled by either of the two Governments, except can only be anafter the expiration of a year's notice given to the other Govern

ment.

nulled after years' notice.

a

ARTICLE XXIII.

to be ratified, and exchanged with

The present convention shall be ratified by the President of This convention the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the ratifications to be Senate thereof, and by her Britannic Majesty; and the ratifica- in three months tions shall be exchanged at London within three months from from date. the date hereof. It shall come into operation as soon as possible after the exchange of the ratifications.

In witness whereof the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seals of their arms.

Signed 15th Dec.

1848.

Ratifications ex

1849.

Done at London, the fifteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight. GEORGE BANCROFT, [L. S.] PALMERSTON.

[L. S.]

And whereas the said convention has been duly ratified on changed 26th Jan. both parts, and the respective ratifications of the same were exchanged at London, on the 26th day of January last, by George Bancroft, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America at the Court of St. James, and the Right Honorable Henry John Viscount Palmerston, her Britannic Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, on the part of their respective governments:

Convention proclaimed 15th Feb. 1849.

Now, therefore, be it known that I, JAMES K. POLK, President of the United States of America, have caused the said convention to be made public, to the end that the same, and every clause and article thereof, may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington, this fifteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight [SEAL.] hundred and forty-nine, and in the seventy-third of the independence of the United States.

By the President:

JAMES K. POLK.

JAMES BUCHANAN, Secretary of State.

TREATIES WITH INDIAN TRIBES.

FOUR CONFEDERATED BANDS OF PAWNEES.

то

JAMES K. POLK,

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

ALL AND SINGULAR TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL
COME, GREETING:

Four Confede

Pawnees,

con

Whereas a treaty was made and concluded on the sixth day Treaty with the of August, A. D. 1848, at Fort Childs, near the head of Grand rated Bands of island, on the south side of the Nebraska or Great Platte river, cluded Aug. 6th, between Lieutenant Colonel Ludwell E. Powell, command. 1848. ing battalion Missouri mounted volunteers, en route for 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 Platte river; which treaty is word for word as follows, to wit:

Pawnee treaty, concluded August 6, 1848.

Articles of agreement and convention made this sixth day of Treaty. 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 Lieutenant Colonel Ludwell E. Powell, commanding battalion Missouri 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 Lesiding on the south side of the Platte river:

ARTICLE I.

the United States.

The confederated bands of the Pawnees hereby cede and re- Land ceded to linquish to the United States all their right, title, and interest in and to all that 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.

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In consideration of the foregoing

has paid to the

lars in goods and

ARTICLE II.

In consideration of the land hereby ceded and relinquished, cession, the U.S. the United States has this day paid, through Capt. Stewart Van said four bands Vliet, assistant quartermaster United States Army, under an two thousand dol- order from Lieut. Col. Ludwell E. Powell, commanding batmerchandise. talion 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.

The U.S. to have

using timber upon Wood river.

ARTICLE III.

hard Wood

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

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.]

PLATTE RIVER

ARTICLE IV. ·

Friendship and

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

S. pledged by the
Pawnees.

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 tribe with whom said Pawnee tribes now are, or may hereafter be, at peace; but, should any difficulty arise, they agree to refer Should difficulthe matter in dispute to such arbitration as the President of the ties United States may direct.

ARTICLE V.

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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 head men of the four confederated bands of Grand Pawnees, Pawnee Loups, Pawnee Republicans, and Pawnee Tappage, have hereunto signed their names, and af fixed their seals, on the day and year aforesaid.

LUDWELL E. POWELL,

Lt. Col. Com'g Bat. Mo. Mounted Volunteers.
CHEF MA-LAIGNE,

Principal Chief of the four confederated bands, his x mark.

Chiefs of

Grand Pawnees.

Sha-re-ta-riche,

arise, the matter in dispute to be left to arbitration.

Signed Augus

6th, 1848.

his x mark.

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