_Third._ To set apart annually such amount of said income as the chiefs
and headmen of said tribe may require, for the support of a blacksmith
shop agricultural assistance, and education to be expended under the
direction of the President of the United States.
_Fourth._ To pay out of said income to Jeffrey Derroin interpreter for
said tribe for services rendered, the sum of fifty dollars annually
during his natural life the balance of said income shall be delivered,
at the cost of the United States, to said tribe of Ioway Indians in
money or merchandise, at their own discretion, at such time and place as
the President may direct, _Provided always_ That the payment shall be
made each year in the month of October.
ARTICLE 3D
The United States further agree in addition to the above consideration
to cause to be erected ten houses at such place or places on their own
land as said Ioways may select, of the following description (viz.) each
house to be ten feet high from bottom sill to top plate eighteen by
twenty feet in the clear the roof to be well sheeted and shingled, the
gable ends to be weather boarded a good floor above and below, one door
and two windows complete, one chimney of stone or brick, and the whole
house to be underpinned.
ARTICLE 4TH
This treaty to be binding upon the contracting parties when the same
shall be ratified by the United States.
TREATY WITH THE IOWA, [MAY 17,] 1854
_Articles of agreement and convention made and concluded at
the city of Washington, this seventeenth day of May, one
thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, by George W. Manypenny,
commissioner on the part of the United States, and the
following-named delegates of the Ioway tribe of Indians, viz:
Nan-chee-ning-a, or No Heart; Shoon-ty-ing-a, or Little Wolf;
Wah-moon-a-ka, or the Man who Steals; and Nar-ge-ga-rash, or
British; they being thereto duly authorized by said tribe._
ARTICLE 1
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