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TREATY WITH THE POTTAWATIMIES. 1826. 297 in the first article, that these claims, which are stated in a schedule this day signed by the Commissioners, and transmitted to the War Department, and amounting to the sum of nine thousand five hundred and seventy-three dollars. (a) ARTICLE 6. The United States agree to grant t0_ each of the persons named in the Grams to per. schedule hereunto annexed, the quantity of land therein stipulated to be ggysdxeygitm granted; but the land, so granted, shall never be conveyed by either of ,,,mm,d_ the said persons, or their heirs, without the consent of the President of the United States; and it is also understood, that any of these grants may be expunged from the schedule, by the President or Senate of the United States, without affecting any other part of the treaty. ARTICLE 7. The Potawatamie Indians shall en`o the right of huntin u on an Hamm _ J Y 8 g P Y e part of the land hereby ceded, as long as the same shall remam the property of the United States. ARTICLE 8. The President and Senate of the United States may reject any article gm,,;,, a,,;,,;,, of this treaty, except those which relate to the consideration to be paid only. ¤¤¤>’ be for the cessions of the land; and such rejection shall not aH`ect any ’°!°°“’d‘ other part of the treaty. ARTICLE 9. This treaty, after the same shall be ratified by the President and T¤==¤*Y bgugllg Senate, shall be binding upon the United States. when mu ° ' In testimony whereof, the said Lewis Cass, James B. Ray, and John Tipton, Commissioners, as aforesaid, and the Chiefs and Warriors of the said Potawatamie tribe, have hereunto set their hands, at the Wabash, on the sixteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, and of the Independence of the United States the fifty first. LEWIS CASS, J. BROWN RAY, JOHN TIPTON. Topenibe, Motiel, Gehuus, J ekose, Toisoe, N aquoquet, Metea, Waubonsa, Aubenaube, Wasaushuck, Ashkom, Shaauquebc, Pe ashshees, Psakauwa, Peizlheco, Kaukaamake, Waupaukeeno, Shekomak, Pashpo, Makasess, K ha, N o-ne, Pxieh, Shepshauwano, Penamo, Mesheketeno, Nasawauka, Squawbuk, M , Mnunis, Mialidge, Jequaumkogo, Shaupatee, Kewaune, Noshaweka, Ahnowawausa, Mennuquct, Louisou, Wimeko, Washcone, Saukena, Shakauwasee, Kepeaugun, Paskauwesa, Menomonie, Nauksee, Shokto, Mukkose,

38 (a) See note to page 299.