A RESOLUTION in reference to money in the hands of the Superintendent of Indian Affairs and Indian agents.
Resolved, That no money or property of any kind whatever, now in the hands of the Superintendent of Indian Affairs or of any Indian agent, being placed there or designed for the Indians on the western frontier of Arkansas, shall be seized, but that the same shall so remain to be applied for and to the use of the several Indian nations faithfully, as was designed when so placed in their hands for disbursement; and the people of the State of Arkansas, here in sovereign convention assembled, do hereby pledge the sovereignty of the State of Arkansas that everything in their power shall be done to compel a faithful application of all money and property now in the hands of persons or agents, designed and intended for the several Indian tribes west of Arkansas.
Adopted in and by the convention May 9, 1861.
DAVID WALKER,
President of the Arkansas State Convention.
Attest.
ELIAS C. BOUDINOT,
Secretary of the Convention.