tember in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, and the schedule thereunto attached, there was granted to Daonquot, or half King, Rontondee, or Warpole, Tayarrontoyea, or Between the Logs, Danwawtout, or John Hicks, Mononcue, or Thomas, Tayondottauseh, or George Punch, Hondaua-waugh, or Matthews, chiefs of the Wyandot nation, two sections of land each, within the Wyandot reservation-The aforesaid chiefs, their heirs or legal representatives, are entitled to, and allowed one section of land each, in the above designated tract of five miles, to be selected by them previous to sale, and the same shall be sold as the other lands are sold, and they allowed to receive the respective sums arising from said sale.

Certain former

reservations to amount paid to be sold, and the the owners.

Indians may

ART. 8. If during the progress of the sale, the Indians are not satisfied with the prices at which the lands sell, the Register and Receiver close the sale. shall, on the written application of the chiefs, close the sale, and report the proceedings to the War Department-and the President may appoint such other time for the sale as he may deem proper.

Authority of

ART. 9. The President shall give such directions as he may judge necessary for the execution of this treaty, through the proper Depart- the President.

ments of the Government.

Signed this twenty-third day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.

Wm. Walker,

John Barnett,

JOHN A. BRYAN,

Com'r on the part of the U States.

In the presence of us, Jn. McLene, John McElvain.

To the Indian names are subjoined a mark.

Peacock.

[NOTE. This treaty was ratified upon this condition, expressed in the resolution of the Senate, which condition is as follows: "Provided, That after the word 'moneys,' in the fifth article, the following words shall be inserted therein: 'not exceeding twenty thousand dollars.'

ARTICLES OF A TREATY

Made at Washington in the District of Columbia on the ninth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, between Henry R. Schoolcraft, commissioner on the part of the United States and the chiefs of the Swan-creek and Black-river bands of the Chippewa nation, residing within the limits of Michigan.

WHEREAS certain reservations of land were made to the said bands of Indians in the treaty concluded at Detroit on the 17th of November 1807, and these reservations after having been duly located, under the authority of the Government, have remained in their possession and Occupancy to the present time: and whereas the said Indians actuated by considerations affecting their permanent improvement and happiness, are desirous of fixing their residence at some point more favorable to these objects, and have expressed their wishes to dispose of the same and authorized their chiefs to proceed to Washington for the purpose

May 9, 1836.

Proclamation,

May 25, 1836.

Ante, p. 105.

ARTICLES OF. A TREATY

Made and concluded at a camp near Yellow river, in the State of Indiana, between Abel C. Pepper, commissioner on the part of the United States and Pe-pin-a-waw, No-taw-kah & Mackah-tah-mo-ah, chiefs and headmen of the Potawattimie tribe of Indians, and their bands on the fifth day of August in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-six.

Aug. 5, 1836. Proclamation, Feb. 18, 1837.

Land ceded to

ART. 1st. The above named chiefs and headmen and their bands hereby cede to the United States twenty-two sections of land reserved the U.S. for them by the second article of the treaty between the United States and the Potawattimie tribe of Indians on Tippecanoe river, on the twenty-sixth day of October in the year eighteen hundred and thirty

two

ART. 2d. In consideration of the cession aforesaid, the United States stipulate to pay to the above named chiefs and headmen and their bands, the sum of fourteen thousand and eighty dollars in specie after the ratification of this treaty, and on or before the first day of May next ensuing the date hereof.

Ante, p. 394.

Payment therefor.

Indians to re

ART. 3d. The above named chiefs and headmen and their bands agree to remove to the country west of the Mississippi river, provided move within for the Potawattimie nation by the United States within two years.

ART. 4th. At the request of the above named band it is stipulated that after the ratification of this treaty, the United States shall appoint a commissioner, who shall be authorized to pay such debts of the said band as may be proved to his satisfaction to be just, to be deducted from the amount stipulated in the second article of this treaty.

ART. 5th. The United States stipulate to provide for the payment of the necessary expences attending the making and concluding this treaty.

ART. 6th. This treaty, after the same shall be ratified by the President and Senate of the United States, shall be binding upon both parties.

In testimony whereof the said Abel C. Pepper commissioner as aforesaid, and the said chiefs and headmen and their bands, have hereunto set their hands this fifth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.

two years.

Payment of Indian debts.

U. S. to pay expenses of making treaty.

Treaty binding when ratified