Indian Papers of Texas and the Southwest, Vol. III

TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1846-1859

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Article I.

The undersigned chiefs, warriors, and counsellors, for themselves and their said tribes or nations, do hereby acknowledge themselves to be under the protection of the United States, and of no other power, state, or sovereignty whatever. Article II. It is stipulated and agreed by the said tribes or nations, and their associate bands, that 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 protection to such persons, with their property, as shall be permitted to reside among them, for the purpose of trade and intercourse, and to their agents ~nd serv- ants, but no person shall be permitted to reside among them as a trader, who is not furnished with a license for that purpose, under the hand and seal of the superin- tendent to be appointed by the President of the United States or such other person as the President shall authorize to grant such licenses, to the end that said Indians may not be imposed on in their trade; and if any licensed trader shall abuse his priv- ilege by unfair dealing, upon complaint by the chiefs to their agents and proof there- of, his license shall be taken from him, and he shall be further punished accord- ing to the laws of the United States; and if any person shall intrude himself as a trader without such license, upon com- plaint he shall be dealt with according to law. Article III. The United States reserves to itself the right of working such mines as may

Said tribes or nations to be under the sole protection of the United States.

The United States to have the sole and exclusive right to regulate trade and inter-

course with said tribes.

No person to reside among them as a trader who is not furnished with a license for that purpose.

Unfair dealing- how punished.

This article struck out by the

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