TREATY WITH THE CHIPPEWAS. 1836, 503 tember in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen and the CT Schedule thereunto attached, there was granted to Daonquot; or half resiiigiiioggnigr Krug, Rontondee, or Warpole, Tayarrontoyea, or Between the Legs b° S°ld·°“!1'h° Drmwawtout, Ol' John Hicks, MGDOHOL1e, or Thomas, Tayondottauseh, ghmosxt Paid to gr George Punch, Hondaua-waugh, or Matthews, chiefs of the YVyandoi, 6 nm` 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 live 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. Am-. 8. If during the progress of the sale, the Indians are not satis- Indians may tied with the prices at which the lands sell, the Register and Receiver °l°S° the ¤¤l¢· 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. Ama 9. The President shall give such directions as he may judge Authority of necessary for the execution of this treaty, through the proper Depart- the PWM ¤¤*· ments of the Government. Signed this twenty-third day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six. CONT on H JOHN A. BRYAN, ac part of the U States. Wm. Walker, --- Peacock, John Barnett, In the presence of us, Jn. McLene, John McElvain. To the Indian names are suhioincd a mark. [NorB.—This treaty was ratified upon this condition, expressed in the resolution of the Senate, which condition is as follows: "Pmvided, That after the word ‘moneys,’ in the nfth article, the following words shall be inserted therein: ‘mt exceeding twenty thousand dollars} " ARTICLES OF A TREATY Made at Washington in the District rj` Columbia on the ninth M,, g, ;g3;;_ day of Mzzy in thelyear of our Lord one thousand eight hun- dred and lhtrty-six, between Henry R. Schoolcraft, conzmzs- ]May 25, 1836, sioner on the part of the United States and the chiefs of the Swan—creeh and Black-river bands of the Chippewa nation, residing within the limits of Michigan. Wnanms certain reservations of land were made to the said bands of Indians in the treaty concluded at Detroit on the 17th of November Ante, p· 105- 1807, and these reservations alter 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
