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TREATY WITII THE MENOMONIES. 1832. 405 Done at Castor Hill, in the county of St. Louis in the State of Missouri, the day and year above written, and of the Independence of the United States the fifty-seventh. WM. CLARK, FRANK J. ALLEN, NATHAN KOUNS. Peorias. Kaekaskias. Wah-pe-sha-ka~na, White Skin. Ke-mon-sah, Little Chief. Keh-mah-re-ne·ab. Wah-kalx-pe-se-wah, Round Flyer. Pa-kee-sha-ma, Cutter. `\Va-pe·sae, White. Pa-me-kaw·wa·ta. Pe-me-ka-wai, Mans Track. Al-le·ne-pe-shen-sha, Mans Track. In presence of James Kennerly, Secretary. A. Shane, U. S. Interpreter. Jacques Mette, U. S. Interpreter. Jesse Oliver. Pierre Menard. Wm. Radford, U. S. Navy. G. S. Rousseau, U. S. A. Meriwether Lewis Clark, Lieut. 6th Inf To the Indian names are suliioined marks. TREATY WITH THE MENOMINEE NATION. 0¤¢·27.1822- Proclamation, Wnsxmts articles of agreement between the United States of Ame- D{>i;°:,,,}3[€1833’ rica, and the Menominee Indians, were made and concluded at the city i of Washington, on the eighth day of February A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, by John H. Eaton, and Samuel C. Stambaugh, Commissioners on the part of the United States, and certain Chiefs and Headmen of the Menominee Nation, on the part of said nation; to which articles, an addition or supplemental article was afterwards made, on the seventeenth day of Februry in the same year, by which the said Menominee Nation agree to cede to the United States certain parts of their land; and that a tract of country therein defined shall be set apart for the New York Indians. All which with the many other stipulations therein contained will more fully appear, by reference to the same. Which said agreements thus forming a Treaty, were laid before the Senate of the United States during their then session: but were not at said session acted on by that body. Whereupon a further agreement was on the fifteenth day of March, in the same year, entered into for the purpose of preserving the provisions of the treaty, made as aforesaid; by which it was stipulated that the said articles of agreement, concluded as aforesaid, should be laid before the next Senate of the United States, at their ensuing session; and if sanctioned and confirmed by them, that each and every article thereof should be as binding and obligatory upon the parties respectively, as if they had been sanctioned at the previous session. And whereas the Senate of the United States, by their resolution of the twenty-fifth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, did advise and consent to accept, ratify and confirm the same, and every clause and article thereof upon the conditions expressed in the proviso, contained in their said resolution: which proviso is as follows: “Provided that for the purpose of establishing the rights of the New York Indians, on a permanent and just footing, the said treaty shall be ratified, with the express understanding that two townships of land on the east side of Winnebago Lake, equal to forty-six thousand and eighty acres shall be laid off (to commence at some point to be agreed on) for the use of the Stockbridge and Munsee tribes; and that the improvements made on the lands now in the possession of the said