Title

Agreement with the Pawnee, 1892

Original Signatory Tribe(s)

Pawnee

Successor in Interest Tribes

Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma

Date Original

23 November 1892

Has Version

Kappler's v. 1

University of Oklahoma College of Law

Subjects/Keywords

promise to pay

Description

As an additional and only further consideration for such cession and conveyance, the United States agrees to pay to said tribe the sum of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre for all the surplus land in said reservation, after the allotments herein provided for shall have been taken and approved by the Secretary of the Interior, payable as follows: Eighty thousand dollars in coin, to be distributed among them per capita at the subagency on said reservation upon the ratification of this agreement by Congress, and the residue of the proceeds of said surplus lands shall be placed to the credit of said tribe in the Treasury of the United States, and bear interest at the rate of five per centum per annum, there to remain at the discretion of the United States, the interest to be paid annually and be distributed to said tribe per capita on said reservation.

Is Referenced By

27 Stat. 644

Treaty Type

agreement

Bibliographic Citation

52nd Cong., 2nd sess., S. Ex. Doc. 16

Deloria, Vine, Jr. and Raymond DeMallie. Documents of American Indian Diplomacy: Treaties, Agreements, and Conventions, 1775-1979. 2v. (Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 361

Charles Joseph Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, vol. 1, Laws, (Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O.,1904), 496

Last updated in MODX

2023-10-27

MODX ID

3025;agreement-with-the-pawnee-1892-22363

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