Agreement with the Tonkawa, 1891
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Title
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Agreement with the Tonkawa, 1891
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Original Signatory Tribe(s)
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Tonkawa
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Date Original
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21 October 1891
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Subjects/Keywords
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promise to pay
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Description
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As a further and only additional consideration for such cession, conveyance, and relinquishment, the United States agrees to pay to said tribe of Indians the sum of thirty thousand and six hundred ($30,600.00) dollars, in manner as follows: Twenty-five ($25) dollars to be paid in cash to each member of said tribe within sixty days after this contract shall be ratified by Congress; fifty ($50) dollars to be paid out for each member of said tribe, under the direction of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, within six months after this contract shall be ratified by Congress, and the residue of said sum of thirty thousand and six hundred ($30,600.00) dollars shall be retained in the Treasury of the United States, and bear interest at the rate of five per centum interest per annum, payable annually to said Indians per capita, or, in the discretion of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, paid out by him for the use of said Indians, but as nearly as may be per capita.
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Is Referenced By
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27 Stat. 643
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Treaty Type
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agreement
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Bibliographic Citation
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52nd Cong., 1st sess., S. Ex. Doc. 13
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Deloria, Vine, Jr. and Raymond DeMallie. Documents of American Indian Diplomacy: Treaties, Agreements, and Conventions, 1775-1979. 2v. (Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 346
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Charles Joseph Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, vol. 1, Laws, (Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O.,1904), 495
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Last updated in MODX
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2023-10-27
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MODX ID
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3019;agreement-with-the-tonkawa-1891-22354
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3019