The United States agree to have surveys made of the country ceded by the
Ioways in article first in the same manner that the public lands are
surveyed, and as soon as it can conveniently be done; and the
President, after the surveys shall have been made and approved, shall
proceed to offer said surveyed land for sale, at public auction, being
governed therein by the laws of the United States respecting sales of
public lands; and such of said lands as may not be sold at public sales,
shall be subject to private entry in the manner that private entries are
made of United States land; and all the land remaining unsold after
being for three years subject to private entry at the minimum Government
price, may by act of Congress, be graduated and reduced in price until
the whole is disposed of, proper regard being had, in making such
reduction, to the interests of the Ioways and the speedy settlement of
the country. Until after the said land shall have been surveyed, and the
surveys approved, no white persons or citizens shall be permitted to
make thereon any location or settlement; and the provisions of the act
of Congress, approved on the third day of March, one thousand eight
hundred and seven, relating to lands ceded to the United States, shall,
so far as they are applicable, be extended over the lands herein ceded.
ARTICLE 4
It being understood that the present division-line between the Ioways
and the Sacs and Foxes of Missouri, as run by Isaac McCoy, will, when
the surveys are made, run diagonally through many of the sections,
cutting them into fractions; it is agreed that the sections thus cut by
said line, commencing at the junction of the Wolf with the Missouri
River, shall be deemed and taken as part of the land herein before ceded
and directed to be sold for the benefit of the Ioways, until the
quantity thus taken, including the before-recited reservation, and all
the full sections north of said line, shall amount to two hundred
sections of land. And should the Sacs and Foxes of Missouri consent to a
change of their residence and be so located by the United States as to
occupy any portion of the land herein ceded and directed to be sold for
the benefit of the Ioways, west of the tract herein reserved, the Ioways
hereby agree to the same, and consent to such an arrangement, upon the
condition that a quantity of land equal to that which may be thus
occupied by the Sacs and Foxes, and of as good quality, shall be set
apart for them out of the country now occupied by the last-named tribe,
contiguous to said division-line, and sold for their benefit as
hereinbefore provided.
ARTICLE 5
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