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i 1060 TREATY WITH THE SHAWNEES. MAY 10, 1854. AMENDMENTS. Anrrcmc 1. Strike out the following words: "Excepting and reserving therefrom two hundred thousand acres for homes for the Shawnee people, which said two hundred thousand acres is retained, as well for the benefit of those Shawnees, parties to the treaty of August 8th, 181, as for those parties to the treaty of Nov. 7, 1825." ARTICLE 2. Strike out the following words where the[y] first occur; " The two hundred thousand acres of land reserved by the Shawnees, shall " and insert the following in lieu thereof: The United States hereby cede to the Shawnee Indians two hundred thousand acres of land to be ARTICLE 10. Strike out the word " small," and after the word " character" insert the following: And for the payment of national or tribal debts -——- do hereby aecept and consent to the said amendments to the articles of agreement and convention aforesaid, and agree that the same shall be considered as a part thereof. But this assent is given on the condition that neither the present, or any future council, shall ever make provision for the pretended claims of It. W. Thompson, of Indiana, George C._ Johnson, of Ohio, or Ewing and Clymer: and upon the further condition that no national or tribal obligations shall ever be made by the council to pay the debts of individual Shawnees to traders or other persons. In testimony whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and aiiixed our seals, this 21st day of August, A. D. 1854. JOSEPH PARKS, his x mark L. s.] HENRY BLUE JACKET, his x mark L. s.] GRAHAM ROGERS, his x mark [L. s.] MATTHEVV KING, his x mark [L. s. PASCHAL FISH, his x mark L. s. JOSEPH FLINT, his x mark L. s. LEWIS DOUGHERTY, his x mark [L. s.] JOSEPH DAY, his x mark [L. s. j SILVERHEELS, his x mark [L. s.] BLACK WOLF, his x mark [L. s.] GREYFEATHER, his x mark L. s. JOSEPH DOUGHERTY, his x mark [L. S.} GEORGE FRANCIS, his x mark [L. s.] WILSON ROGERS, his x mark [L. s.] PACUTSEKAH, his x mark [L. s. KAKWEKAH, his x mark [L. sd JOHN FLINT, his x mark [L. s.] TUCKER, his x mark [L. s.] JAMES SUCKET, his x mark [L. s. TOOLY, his x mark [L. s. SILAS DOUGHERTY, his x mark [L. s. JACKSON ROGERS, his x mark [L. s. JOSEPH WHITE, his x mark [L. s. JOHN PARKS, his x mark [L. s. DAVID DUSHANE, his x mark [L. s. LEVI FLINT, his x mark [L. s. NEONA, his x mark [L. s. WILLIAM SHOTO, his x mark [L. s. GEORGE FLINT, his x mark [L. s. JOHN SHANE his x mark [L. s. JACKSON WHEELER, his x mark [L. s.