TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1846-1859
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be found within the Indian territory, and the said tribes pledge themselves to pro- tect such persons as the President of the United States may send among them for that purpose. In order to guard against the perpetration of frauds upon the In- dians, under pretext of hunting and work- ing mines, no person shall be permitted to go among them for that purpose, except by express license from the President of the United States. Article IV. The said tribes and their associate bands agree to deliver, by the first day of November next, to the superintendent of Indian affairs to be appointed by the President, at such place as he may direct, due notice of which shall be given to the said tribes, all white persons and negroes who are now prisoners among any of the said tribes or nations, for which the United States agree to make them a fair compensation; and the United States further agree to make [that] all the pris- oners taken from said tribes by Texas or the United States, shall be delivered up to the said tribes, at the same time and place, without charge. And when any member of any said tribes or nations, and their associate bands, having in his possession an American prisoner or prisoners, white or black, shall refuse to give them up, the President of the United States shall have the privilege of sending among said tribes or nations such force as he may think necessary to take them; and the chiefs of the nations or tribes, parties to this treaty, pledge themselves to give protec- tion and assistance to such persons as may be sent among them for this purpose.
Senate See post, p. 848.
All white per- sons and negroes now prisoners with said Indians to be delivered up.
Persons taken from said tribes by Texas to be delivered up.
Force may be used.
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