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Articles of Agreement between Edward P. Smith¹ and J. W. L. Slavens²,Front

(Note: only the first paragraph and the list of signatories are transcribed below.)

Articles of Agreement made and entered into this twenty-fourth day of
May A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-five, by Edward P. Smith, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, for and in behalf of the United States, of the first part, and J. W. L. Slavens, of Kansas City, Missouri
of the second part.

                                                   Edw P. Smith
SIGNED IN PRESENCE OF -           Commissioner of Indian Affairs
H. R. Clum as to E.P.S.                 J. W. L. Slavens
J. H. Mausun
W. C. Oburn