Treaty with the Mescalero Apache, 1855
Item
- Title
- Treaty with the Mescalero Apache, 1855
- Successor in Interest Tribes
- Mescalero Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation, New Mexico
- Date Original
- 14 June 1855
- Subjects/Keywords
- Not Ratified
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mining and mineral rights
- Description
- may also assign other lands in exchange for mineral lands
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roads and highways
- Description
- All necessary roads, highways
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right of way
- Description
- the President may grant the right of way to any such roads free of charge
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railroads
- Description
- All necessary roads, highways and railroads, the lines of which may run through the reserved tract shall have the right of way
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promise to pay
- Description
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In Consideration of, and full payment for the Country ceded, and the removal of the Mescaleros, the United States agree to pay to the Mescaleros the following sums without interest, to wit: The United States will during the years 1856, 1857 and 1858, pay to the Mescaleros six thousand dollars each year, during the year 1859, and the two next succeeding years thereafter, the sum of four thousand each year; and during the year 1862 and the next succeeding twenty years thereafter, the sum of two thousand dollars each year.
All of which several sums of money shall be paid to the Mescaleros or expended for their use and benefit under the direction of the President of the United States, who may from time to time, determine, at his discretion, what proportion of the annual payments in this article provided for, if any, shall be paid to them in money, and what proportion shall be applied to and expended, for their moral improvement and education; for such beneficial objects as in his judgment will be calculated to advance them in civilization, for building, opening farms, breaking lands, providing stock, agricultural implements, seeds &c, for employing farmers, to teach the Indians to cultivate the soil; for clothing, provisions and merchandize, for iron, steel, arms and ammunition, for mechanics and tools; and for medical purposes.
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provide agriculture assistance
- Description
- for such beneficial objects as in his judgment will be calculated to advance them in civilization, for building, opening farms, breaking lands, providing stock, agricultural implements, seeds &c, for employing farmers, to teach the Indians to cultivate the soil
- Treaty Type
- treaty
- Bibliographic Citation
- Deloria, Vine, Jr. and Raymond DeMallie. Documents of American Indian Diplomacy: Treaties, Agreements, and Conventions, 1775-1979. 2v. (Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 1311
- National Archives Record Group, 11, State Department Treaty File, M668, roll 10: 464
- Last updated in MODX
- 2023-10-27
- MODX ID
- 3106;treaty-with-the-mescalero-apache-1855-22559
- 3106