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to the United States, and running easterly with and along the southern boundary of the said Makah tribe to the middle of the Coast Range of mountains; thence southerly with said range of mountains to their intersection with the dividing ridge between the Chehalis and Quiniatl Rivers; thence westerly with said ridge to the Pacific Coast; thence northerly along said coast to the place of beginning. (Art. 1.) President to reserve tracts for use of these Indians in the Territory of Washington, and hereafter surveyed; no whites allowed to reside thereon without permission of the tribe or of the Indian agent. Indians agree to remove to reservation within one year. Roads may be run through reservation; compensation to be made for damage sustained thereby. (Art. 2.) Right to take fish in accustomed grounds secured, and to erect temporary houses for curing the same; together with privilege of hunting, gathering roots and berries, etc., on unclaimed lands, and not to take shell-fish from beds staked by citizens. (Art. 3.) United States to pay $25,000 in following manner: First year after ratification, $2,500; next two years, $2,000 each; next three years, $1,600 each; next four years, $1,300 each; next five years, $1,000 each, and for next five years, $700 each year. (Art. 4.) United States to pay $2,500 for removal. (Art. 5.) The President reserves the right to remove these Indians, whenever their own or the interests of the Territory require it, to other suitable localities within the Territory, on remunerating them for their improvements and defraying expense of removal, or to consolidate them with friendly Indians, in which case the annuities of all the tribes to be consolidated. (Art. 6.) Annuities not to be taken for individual debts. (Art. 7.) Indians agree to be friendly with citizens of United States, to pay for depredations, not to make war, and to surrender offenders against United States laws to proper authorities. (Art. 8.) Annuities to be withheld from any Indian bringing liquor into reservation, or any one drinking ardent spirits. (Art. 9.)` United States agrees to establish the general agency for district of Puget Sound, within one year from ratification, and to support for twenty years an agricultural and industrial school for Indians, and to provide suitable instructors, also to provide a smithy and carpenter's shop, furnished with necessary tools, and to employ blacksmith, carpenter, and farmer for twenty years to instruct the Indians; to furnish, also, a physician, who shall furnish medicine and advice free; expenses of said school, shops, employés, and medical attendance to be defrayed by the United States and not deducted from their annuities. (Art. 10.) Tribes to free all slaves and not purchase others. (Art. 11.) Indians not to trade outside of the United States, nor allow foreign Indians to reside on their reservation without consent of agent. (Art. 12.) Treaty binding when ratified. (Art. 13.)

Proclaimed April 11, 1859.1

Executive order.2

EXECUTIVE MANSION, November 4, 1873.

In accordance with the provisions of the treaty with the Quinaielt and Quillehute Indians, concluded July 1, 1855, and January 25, 1856 (Stats. at Large, Vol. XII, p. 971), and to provide for other Indians in that locality, it is hereby ordered that the following tract of country in Washington Territory (which tract includes the reserve selected by W. W. Miller, superintendent of Indian affairs for Washington Territory, and surveyed by A. C. Smith, under contract of September 16, 1861) be withdrawn from sale and set apart for the use of the Quinaielt, Quillehute, Hoh, Quit, and other tribes of fish-eating Indians on the Pacific Coast, viz: Commencing on the Pacific Coast at the south-west corner of the present reservation, as established by Mr. Smith in his survey under contract with Superintendent Miller, dated September 16, 1861; thence due east, and with the line of said survey, 5 miles to the south-east corner of said reserve thus established; thence in a direct line to the most southerly end of Quinaielt Lake; thence northerly around the east shore of said lake to the north-west

1 United States Statutes, Vol. XII, p. 971. 2 Report of Indian Commissioner, 1886, p. 375.

point thereof; thence in a direct line to a point a half mile north of the Queetshee River and 3 miles above its mouth; thence with the course of said river to a point on the Pacific Coast, at low-water mark, a half mile above the mouth of said river; thence southerly, at low-water mark, along the Pacific to the place of beginning. U. S. GRANT.

SHOALWATER RESERVATION.

How established.-By Executive order, September 22, 1866.
Area and survey.-Contains 335 acres. Surveyed.1
Acres cultivated.-Not reported.

Tribes and population.—The tribes living here are the Shoalwater and Tsihalis. Total population not reported.

Location. This reservation is situated on the Shoalwater Bay. The people find plenty of work during the oyster season on the bay, and in the fishing season on the Columbia River, and command as good wages as the whites engaged in the same occupations.2

Executive order.3

EXECUTIVE MANSION, September 22, 1866.

Let the tract of land as indicated on the within diagram be reserved from sale and set apart for Indian purposes, as recommended by the Secretary of the Interior in his letter of the 18th instant, said tract embracing portions of sections 2 and 3 in township 14 north, range 11 west, Washington Territory.

TULALIP AGENCY.

ANDREW JOHNSON.

[Post-office address: Tulalip, Snohomish County, Wash. Ter.]

SNOHOMISH (OR TULALIP) RESERVATION.

How established.-By treaty of Point Elliott, January 22, 1855,' and Executive order, December 23, 1873.

Area and survey.-Contains 22,490 acres,5 2,000 of which are classed as tillable. Surveyed."

Acres cultivated.-Two hundred and twenty-five acres cultivated by the Indians.6

Tribes and population.-Dwamish, Etakmur, Lummi, Snohomish, Sukwamish, and Swiwamish. Total population, 475.7

Location. The Tulalip Reservation is situated on the north-eastern shore of Port Gardner and north of the mouth of the Snohomish River. Including Tulalip Bay and Quiltsehda Creek, nine-tenths of the lands thus described are covered with a heavy growth of fir and cedar timber, except where it has been logged in former years. The remaining one-tenth is mostly under cultivation.

1 Report of Indian Commissioner, 1886, p. 390. 2 Ibid., 1880, p. 162; 1882, p. 160. 3 Ibid., 1886, p. 376. 4 United States Statutes, Vol. XII, p. 927. Report of Indian Commissioner, 1886, p. 390. 6 Ibid., p. 436. 7 I bid., p. 408. 8 Ibid., 1884, p. 169.

Government rations.-Five per cent. of these Indians subsisted by Government rations in 1886.1

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Mills and Indian employés.—A mill reported, with Indian employés. Indian police.-Established.

Indian court of offences.-Established.

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Missionary work.-The Roman Catholic Church is in charge.

SYNOPSIS OF TREATY.

$10,395

Treaty with Dwámish, Suquámish, Sk-táhl-mish, Sam-áhmish, Smalh-kahmish, Skopeáhmish, St-káh-mish, Snoquálmoo, Skai-wha-mish, N' Quentl-má-mish, Sk-táh-le-jum, Stoluckwha-mish, Sno-ho-mish, Skágit, Kik-i-állus, Swin-á-mish, Squin-áh-mish, Sah-ku-méhu, Noowhá-há, Nook-wa-cháh-mish, Mee-see-qua-guilch, Cho-bah-áh-bish, and other allied and subordinate tribes of Indians in Washington Territory, made at Point Elliott, Washington Territory, January 22, 1855.

Indians cede following lands, commencing at a point on the eastern side of Admiralty Inlet, known as Point Pulley, about midway between Commencement and Elliott Bays; thence eastwardly, running along the north line of lands heretofore ceded to the United States by the Nisqually, Puyallup, and other Indians, to the summit of the Cascade range of mountains; thence, northwardly, following the summit of said range to the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude; thence west, along said parallel to the middle of the Gulf of Georgia; thence through the middle of said gulf and the main channel through the Canal de Arro to the Straits of Fuca, and crossing the same through the middle of Admiralty Inlet to Suquamish Head; thence southwesterly, through the peninsula, and following the divide between Hood's Canal and Admiralty Inlet to the portage know as Wilkes Portage; thence north-eastwardly, and following the line of lands heretofore ceded as aforesaid, to Point Southworth, on the western side of Admiralty Inlet, and thence round the foot of Vashon's Island eastwardly and south-ea stwardly to the place of beginning. (Art. 1.)

Indians reserved the following tract: Two sections, or 1,280 acres, surrounding the small bight at the head of Port Madison; the amount of two sections, or 1,280 acres on the north side of Hwhomish Bay and the creek emptying into the same called Kwilt-seh-da, the peninsula at the south-eastern end of Perry's Island called Shaisquihl, and the island Chah-choo-sen, situated in the Lummi River at the point of separation of the mouths emptying respectively into Bellingham Bay and the Gulf of Georgia. Said tract to be surveyed; no whites allowed to reside upon the same without permission of the said tribes; roads may be run through; Indians to be compensated for any damage done thereby. (Art. 2.) One township of land on north-eastern shore of Port Gardner, and north of the mouth of Snohomish River, including Tulalip Bay and Kwilt-seh-da Creek, reserved for an agricultural and industrial school. (Art. 3.) Tribes agree to move to reservation within one year. (Art. 4.) Rights to take fish at accustomed grounds secured, and to erect temporary houses for curing fish; also privilege to hunt, gather berries on unclaimed lands. (Art. 5.) United States agrees to pay $150,000; first year after ratification, $15,000; next two years, $12,000

Report of Indian Commissioner, 1886, p. 422. 2 Ibid., p. xcviii.

each; next three years, $10,000 each; next four years, $7,500 each; next five years, $6,000 each; and for last five years $4,250 each year. (Art. 6.) President may remove Indians, pay expenses of removal, remunerate them for improvements made; cause lands to be surveyed and assign them to individuals according to article 6 of Omaha treaty of 1855. (Art. 7.) Annuities not to be taken for debts of individuals. (Art. 8.) Tribes to preserve friendly relations; pay for depredations, not to make war except in self-defence, agree not to conceal offenders against laws of United States. (Art. 9.) Annuities to be withheld from those using ardent spirits. (Art. 10.) Agree to free slaves and purchase none in future. (Art. 11.) Agree not to trade outside the dominions of the United States, nor permit foreign Indians to reside on their reservation. (Art. 12.) United States to pay $15,000 for expenses of removal and settlement. (Art. 13.) United States to establish and maintain for twenty years at general agency for district of Puget Sound an agricultural and industrial school, and provide instructors; also smithy and carpenter's shop, furnish necessary tools, employ blacksmith, carpenter, and farmer for twenty years; also to employ physician, furnish medicines and advice free; expenses of school, shops, persons employed, and medical attendance to be furnished by United States. (Art. 14.) Treaty binding when ratified. (Art. 15.)

Proclaimed April 11, 1859.1

Executive order.2

EXECUTIVE MANSION, December 23, 1873.

It is hereby ordered that the boundaries of the Snohomish or Tulalip Indian Reservation, in the Territory of Washington, provided for in the third article of the treaty with the Dwamish and other allied tribes of Indians, concluded at Point Elliott, January 22, 1855 (Stats. at Large, Vol. XII, p. 928), shall be as follows, to wit: Beginning at low-water mark on the north shore of Steamboat Slough at a point where the section line between sections 32 and 33 of township 30 north, range 5 east, intersects the same; thence north on the line between sections 32 and 33, 28 and 29, 20 and 21, 16 and 17, 8 and 9, and 4 and 5, to the township line between townships 30 and 31; thence west on said township line to low-water mark on the shore of Port Susan; thence south-easterly with the line of low-water mark along said shore and the shores of Tulalip Bay and Port Gardner, with all the meanders thereof, and across the mouth of Ebey's Slough to the place of beginning.

LUMMI (CHAH-CHOO-SEN) RESERVATION.

U. S. GRANT.

How established.-By treaty of Point Elliott, January 22, 1855,3 and Executive order, November 22, 1873.

Area and survey.-Contains 12,312 acres,3 7,000 of which are classed as tillable.1

Acres cultivated.-Three hundred acres cultivated by the Indians.5 Tribes. The tribes living here are the Dwamish, Etakmur, Lummi, Snohomish, Sukwamish, and Swiwamish."

Location. This reservation is situated 75 miles north of Tulalip. Three-fourths of it is excellent agricultural land, and the people give their attention entirely to farming.7

Government rations.-Five per cent. of these Indians subsisted by Gov. ernment rations in 1886.8 No separate agency statistics given for these Indians.

1 United States Statutes, Vol. XII, p. 927. 1886, p. 376. 3 United States Statutes, Vol. Commissioner, 1886, p. 390. 5 Ibid., p. 436.

* Report of Indian Commissioner, XII, p. 927.

Report of Indian

6 Ibid., p. 408.

7 Ibid., 1884, p.

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School population.-No school population, nor accommodation, nor any special mission work reported for this reservation in 1886.

Executive order.1

EXECUTIVE MANSION, November 22, 1873. It is hereby ordered that the following tract of country in Washington Territory be withdrawn from sale and set apart for the use and occupation of the Dwamish and other allied tribes of Indians, viz: Commencing at the eastern mouth of Lummi River; thence up said river to the point where it is intersected by the line between sections 7 and 8 of township 38 north, range 2 east of the Willamette meridan; thence due north on said section line to the township line between townships 38 and 39; thence west along said township line to low-water mark on the shore of the Gulf of Georgia; thence southerly and easterly along the said shore, with the meanders thereof, across the western mouth of Lummi River, and around Point Francis; thence north-easterly to the place of beginning; so much thereof as lies south of the west fork of the Lummi River being a part of the island already set apart by the second article of the treaty with the Dwamish and other allied tribes of Indians, made and concluded January 22, 1857. (Stats. at Large, Vol. XII, p. 928.)

For treaty see Snohomish, or Tulalip, Reservation.

MUCKLESHOOT RESERVATION.

U. S. GRANT.

How established.-By Executive orders, January 20, 1857, and April 9, 1874.

Area and survey.-Contains 3,367 acres of which 2,000 are classed as tillable. Surveyed.3

Acres cultivated.-Two hundred and twenty-five acres cultivated by the Indians.3

Tribes and population.-The tribes living here are the Muckleshoot. Location. This reservation, situated on White River, 70 miles south of Tulalip, contains very good farming and grazing land. The Muckleshoot Indians are well advanced in civilization, and many speak English understandingly; they all wear citizen's dress, and several of them have good homes and plenty of stock.

Government rations.-Five per cent. of these Indians subsisted by Government rations in 1886.5 No separate agency statistics given for these Indians.

School population.-No school population, nor accommodation, nor any special mission work reported for this reservation in 1886.

Executive order.

(For Executive order of January 20, 1857, relative to Muckleshoot Reserve, see Nisqually Reserve.)

EXECUTIVE MANSION, April 9, 1874.

It is hereby ordered that the following tracts of land in Washington Territory, viz: sections 2 and 12 of township 20 north, range 5 east, and sections 20, 28, and 34 of

1 Report of Indian Commissioner, 1886, p. 371.

▲ Ibid., 1884, p. 169.

Ibid., 1886, p. 424.

* Ibid., p. 390. 3 Ibid., p. 436. Ibid., p. 372.

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