In witness whereof, the parties to this agreement have hereunto set their hands and seals this twenty-third day

Committee on part of the Creek Nation.

Approved November 25th, 1876.

Sec. 10. Articles of agreement entered into by the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, represented by William H. McIntosh of one part, and the Muskogee Nation, represented by Pleasant Porter, Robert Brown (House of Kings), L. C. Perryman, David Cummings, and Ned Robbins (House of Warriors), duly empowered by the National Council to act in the premises, of the second part:

WITNESSETH: That whereas, an act was approved December 8th, 1875, by the National Council, granting permission to the Muskogee Baptist Association, or its managing board, to establish a manual labor school under the supervision and patronage of the Baptist denomination; and whereas, on the twenty-third of November, 1876, articles of agreement were entered into between William McCombe, William Robinson, John McIntosh, and James Fife, in behalf of the Muskogee Baptist Association, and Ward Coachman, James McHenry, and John R. Moore, in behalf of the Muskogee Nation, which contract was subsequently transferred by the Muskogee Baptist Association to the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, and certain changes in the contract were authorized by the National Council, on October 13th, 1879, and the committee mentioned above

were empowered to amend the contract of 1876 accord

ingly.

Therefore it is agreed to make this supplemental contract and to amend the contract of 1876, as follows:

1. The Muskogee Nation and the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention agree to erect the buildings and to make the improvements necessary to establish said institution jointly, each paying the same sum of money towards said enterprise.

2. Said Muskogee Nation agrees to invest five thousand ($5,000) dollars in said manual labor school.

3. The Muskogee Nation hereby agrees to pay, out of the expected receipts to be paid by the United States, June 1, 1880, the sum of $1,666.66 2-3; and the sum of $3,333.33 1-3, out of the expected receipts to be paid by the United States, June 30, 1880, making five thousand ($5,000) dollars; and said sums are hereby set apart and appropriated for said purpose, and the payment of said sums for said school purposes shall be given preference over other obligations.

4. When this contract has been approved by the National Council and by the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, it is agreed that drafts for said sums shall be issued by the Chief on the Treasurer of the Nation, and shall be forwarded to said Home Mission Board or its legal representatives, and said drafts of five thousand ($5,000) dollars, in said sums described, together with the five thousand ($5,000) dollars now in the hands of the said board, shall constitute the joint fund with which to establish said manual labor school.

5. The Muskogee Nation reserves the right to return within five years said five thousand ($5,000) dollars, to be invested in said enterprise by the Home Mission Board, and when said sum of five thousand ($5,000) dollars shall be returned to the board by the Nation, then the entire and perfect title to the property shall become vested in the Muskogee Nation, and the right of said board to

said property, and the land on which it may be located under the treaty of. 1866, shall cease, and be vested in said Muskogee Nation, but the Home Mission Board shall have the right to supervise and operate said school as fully after said payment of said five thousand ($5,000) dollars as before said payment by the Nation to the board, and said annual appropriation of seventy ($70) dollars per pupil will be continued.

6. The board agrees to have suitable buildings erected and improvements made, with capacity to accommodate one hundred pupils, to have a competent architect to prepare the plans, and to enter into written contracts for the erection of the houses and making the necessary improvements.

7. The Muskogee Nation agrees to appoint a supervisor and the board agrees to appoint another, and it shall be their duty to inspect the work as it shall progress, and when said supervisor shall inspect the work and certify that the contractor has done the work skillfully and according to contract, a copy of which shall then be delivered to each of said supervisors, then payment shall be made to said contractor by the board.

It is further agreed that the contract of 1876 shall be amended, and is hereby amended, so that the sum of seventy ($70) dollars per annum for each pupil is appropriated, as said sum of seventy ($70) dollars is allowed by the Methodist school, and the law of 1875 says that the Baptist contract shall conform to the contracts made with other denominations.

Witness our hands and seals this October 13, 1879.

WM. H. MCINTOSH, Cor. Sec.

PLEASANT PORTER, [Seal.]

ARTICLE V.

YOUTHS IN THE STATES.

Sec. 1. The National treasurer of the Muskogee Nation shall have charge of the youths at school in the States, and shall disburse the funds appropriated for their benefit.

Sec. 2. Six of the youths at school in the States shall be placed in schools under the patronage of the Methodist denomination.

CHAPTER VI.

NATIONAL FINANCES.

[For monetary resources, see treaties with the United States
Government.]

ARTICLE I. Liabilities of the Muskogee National Government.
II. An act providing for the funding of the Creek National
debt outstanding in National warrants, issued
under acts of National Council previous to 1874,
and to provide for a sinking fund for the payment
thereof, and to provide for the current expenses of
the Government.

III. Order of payment of National warrants.

ARTICLE I.

LIABILITIES OF THE MUSKOGEE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT.

Sec. 1. The government of the Muskogee Nation shall not be liable for any debts incurred by its citizens, collectively or individually, during the late war or between that period and the time of the treaty of peace at Fort Smith, September 13, 1865; but all debts contracted by the Nation since the latter date shall be paid out of the National treasury.

Sec. 2. This article shall not be so construed as to in any manner affect personal debts or settlements.

ARTICLE II.

An act to provide for the funding of the Creek National debt outstanding in National warrants issued under acts of Council previous to 1874, and to provide for a sinking fund for the payment thereof, and to provide for the current expenses of the Nation.