Indian Papers of Texas and the Southwest, Vol. III

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TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1846-1859

No. 98 TREATY BETWEEN UNITED STATES AND THE COMANCHE, CADDO, LIPAN, QUAPAW, TAWAKONI, AND WACO TRIBES OF INDIANS [December 10, 1850] The Command went out from Fort Mart.in Scott situated one mile East of Fredericksburg. the Co, seat, N. Y.

[Handwritten by H. W. M.] Aug, 1890 H. W. M.

ARTICLES OF TREATY made and concluded on Spring Creek, near the River San Saba, in the Indian Country of the State of Texas, this, the 10th da.y of December, A.D. 1850, between John H. Rollins, Specuu Agent for ffke United States for the Indians of Texas, acting for the United States on the orze part, and the undersi,gned Chiefs, Warriors, Cap- tains and Councillors, for themselves and for those under their control, and acknowledging their authority, on the other par~witnessess: Article 1st

Held at the head spring of Spring Cr. South of but near the River San Saba.

The Undersigned, Chiefs, Warriors, Captains and Council- lors, for themselves, and for those under their control and sub- ject to their authority, do hereby acknowledge themselves to be under the jurisdiction and protection of the United States of America, and of no other Power, State or Sovereignty whatever. Article 2d. It is stipulated and agreed by the Indians, parties hereto, that the Government of the United States shall have the sole and exclusive right of regulating trade and intercourse with them, and they do hereby respectively engage to afford protec- tion to such persons, with their property, as shall be duly authorized to reside among them for the purpose of trade and intercourse, and to their agents and servants; but no person shall be permitted to reside among them as a trader, or intro- duce goods into the Indian country, who is not furnished with a license for that purpose, according to the laws of the United

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