Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 7.djvu/439

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TREATY WITH THE OTTOES AND MISSOURIAS. 1833. 429 ARTICLE III. The United States stipulate to continue to Econchati- Annuity canmico, his sub-Chiefs and Warriors their proportion of the annuity of *i¤¤°d· (5000) five thousand dollars to which they are entitled under the treaty of Camp Moultrie, so long as the Seminoles remain in the Territory, and to advance their proportional amount of said annuity for the balance of the term stipulated for its payment in the treaty aforesaid, whenever the Seminoles finally remove in compliance with the terms of the treaty concluded at Payne’s landing on 9th May 1832.- Ante,p. 368. Aivrrcnn IV. If at any time hereafter, the Chiefs and Warriors, par- Provision in ties to this agreement, should feel disposed to migrate from the Terri- Q2?-fo:;,f“""° tory of Florida to the country allotted to the Creeks and Seminoles in ` Arkansas; should they elect to sell their grants of land as provided for · in the first article of this treaty, they must defray from the proceeds of the sales of said land, or from their private resources, all the expenses of their migration, subsistence, Geo. But, if they prefer, they may, by surrendering to the U. States all the rights and privileges acquired under the provisions of this agreement, become parties to the obliga·· tions, provisions and stipulations of the treaty concluded at Payne’s landing with the Seminoles on the 9th May 1832 as a constituent part Ante,p.368. of said tribe, and re-unite with said tribe in their new abode on the Arkansas, the United States, in that event agreeing to pay (3000) three thousand dollars for the reservation relinquished in the first article of this treaty; in addition to the rights and immunities the parties may acquire under the aforesaid treaty at Payne’s landing. In testimony whereof the Commissioner, James Gadsden, in behalf of the U. States and the undersigned Chiefs and Warriors have hereunto subscribed their names and ailixed their seals. Done at Pope’s, Fayette county in the Territory of Florida, this eighteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty- three, and of the independence of the U. States the fifty-eighth.-—· JAMES GADSDEN. Econ-chati-mico, Vauxey Hojo, Billy Humpkin, Fuse-e-matbla, Kaley Senehah, Lath·la-6-cicio. Elapy Tustenuckey, W1rxsssss—Wm. S. Pope, Sub-Agent. Robert Larance. Joe Miller, Interpreter. Jim Walker, Interpreter. To the Indian names are subjoined marks. ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT AND CONVENTION, Made at the Otoe Village on the River Platte, between Lknry L. Sept. 21, 1833. Ellsworth, Commissioner, in behalf of the United States, and Prqclama(i0n’ the united bands of Otoes, and Micsourias dwelling on the satd Aprrl 12. 1834- Platte this 21st day of September A. D. 1833. Anrwns I. The said Otoes, and Missourias, cede and relinquish to Cessionofhnd the United States, all their right and title, to the lands lying south of to U.S. the following line viz.—Beginning, on the Little N emohaw river, at the northwest corner of the land reserved by treaty at Prairie du Chien, on