TREATY WITH THE KASKASKIAS. 1803. 79 field not exceeding one hundred acres with a good and sutheient fence. And whereas, The greater part of the said tribe have been baptised and received into the Catholic church to which they are much attached, the United States will give annually for seven years one hundred dollars Annual sum to towards the support of a priest of that religion, who will engage to per- :’,:’°F“d F" T °¤‘ form for the said tribe the duties of his office and also to instruct as &,,,_i° Pm6s' many of their children as possible in the rudiments of literature. And A sum to be the United States will further give the sum of three hundred dollars to £"f;’;el;!;hP· F- assist the said tribe in the erection of a church. The stipulations made ,,h,,,c,,_ g in this and the preceding article, together with the sum of five hundred and eighty dollars, which is now paid or assured to be paid for the said tribe for the purpose of procuring some necessary articles, and to relieve them from debts which they have heretofore contracted, is considered as a full and ample compensation for the relinquishment made to the United States in the first article. Aer. 4th. The United States reserve to themselves the right at any _Right ofdividfuture period of dividing the annuity now promised to the said tribe ***5 ¤*5¤“**{',*§· amongst the several fami ies thereof; reserving always a suitable sum for °°"° t°' the great chief and his family. Am-. 5th. And to the end that the United States may be enabled to fix with the other Indian tribes a boundary between their respective claims, the chiefs and head warriors of the said Kaskaskia tribe do hereby declare that their rightfull claim is as follows, viz-Beginning Boundaries at the confluence of the Ohio and the Mississippi, thence up the Ohio 6***- to the mouth of the Saline creek, about twelve miles below the mouth of the Wabash, thence along the dividing ridge between the said creek and the Wabash untill it comes to the general dividing ridge between the waters which fall into the Wabash, and those which fall into the Kaskaskia river; and thence along the said ridge untill it reaches the waters which fall into the Illinois river, thence in a direct course to the mouth of the Illinois river, and thence down the Mississippi to the beginning. Aar. 6th. As long as the lands which have been ceded by this treaty Indians may shall continue to be the property of the United States, the said tribe h¤¤¢· &·¤-¤¤ shall have the priviledge of living and hunting upon them in the same °°d°d l‘°d“' manner that they have hitherto done. Am. 7th. This treaty is to be in force and binding upon the said When totako parties, as soon as it shall be ratified by the President and Senate of the °“`°°'· United States. IN wrrusss wnnnnor, The said commissioner plenipoteutiary and the head chiefs and warriors of the said Kaskaskia tribe of Indians have hereunto set their hands and aflixed their seals, the thirteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and three, and of the independence of the United States the twenty-eighth. WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON. Jean Baptiste Ducoigne, Ocksinga a Mitchigamian, Pedagouge, Keo—tin·sa a Cahokian. Nicolas or Nicholas, LOUIS DECOUCIGNE. Sealed and delivered (tho words ¢¢and thence along the said ridge" between the third and fourth lines of the Bfth article being first interlined) in the presence of Jno. Rice Jones, Secretary to the Commissioner. Henry Vanderburg, one of the Judges of the Indiana Territory. T. F. Rivet, Indian Missionary. Vigo, Colonel of Knox county Militia. Cornelius Lyman, Capt. lst init. regt. Jas. Johnson, of Indiana Territory. B. Parker, of the Indiana Territory. Joseph Barron, Interpreter. Totholmlianuamasuonubioincdamarkaud ron!.
