Treaty with the principal Band of Molale, 1851
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Title
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Treaty with the principal Band of Molale, 1851
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Original Signatory Tribe(s)
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Molale
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Date Original
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6 May 1851
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Subjects/Keywords
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right of way
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Description
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Provided further, That nothing herein contained shall prohibit the proper authorities of the Territory of Oregon from establishing public highways through said reservation whenever the public convenience may require it.
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roads and highways
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Description
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Provided further, That nothing herein contained shall prohibit the proper authorities of the Territory of Oregon from establishing public highways through said reservation whenever the public convenience may require it.
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promise to provide
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Description
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three hundred dollars of which is to be paid in cash and the remainder to be expended in the purchase of one hundred blankets, forty pairs of pants, twenty coats, eighty shirts, one hundred pairs of shoes, twenty hats or caps, two hundred yards of calico, two hundred yards of linsey plaid, one hundred and fifty yards of domestic shirting (yard wide), and thirty blanket shawls
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It is also agreed that at the time when each of the first three payments are made, the Government of the United States will pay to said band five good rifle guns, and, also, at the first payment, five good Indian horses, to be delivered to the chiefs of said band, and be by them disposed of.
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The Government of the United States also further agrees to erect for the use of the principal chief of this band a good log house, to be erected at a place designated by himself, within the bounds of the reservation above described; said house to be thirty feet long, fourteen feet wide, and eight feet high from the ground to the eaves, and divided into two rooms, to be finished with plank floor, shingled roof, and brick chimney, with a fire-place in each room—with door and window suitable in each room. The above house to be erected as soon after the ratification of this treaty as practicable.
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promise to pay
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Description
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The Government of the United States agrees, in consideration of the lands hereby ceded, to pay to said band of the Moolal-le tribe the sum of twenty-two thousand dollars, to be paid in twenty annual installments of eleven hundred dollars each
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Treaty Type
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treaty
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Bibliographic Citation
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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), 1284
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32d Cong., 1st sess., S. Confidential Ex. Doc. 44
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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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3091;treaty-with-the-principal-band-of-molale-1851-22523
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3091