its conditions, and except in the alteration of boundary, nothing in this instrument shall affect or change any of the pre-existing obligations of the contracting parties.. Art. 7. This treaty shall take effect and To take effect become reciprocally obligatory so soon as from the rathe same shall have been ratified by the tification. President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the said United States. DONE on Mount Dexter, in Pooshapuk- Witnesses present at signing and sealing : THOMAS A. CLAIBORNE, JOHN M.KEE, SAMUEL MITCHILL, United States' agent to the Chicka saws. WILLIAM COLBERT, of the Chick asaws, his mark, Lewis Ward, Charles Juzan, Garrud E. Nelson, David Chote, Nathaniel Tolsom, Mdl. Mackey, Lewis Lefto, John Pitchlynn, United States' Inter preter, Will. Tyrrell, Assistant Intreprcter. Now THEREFORE, to the end that the said treaty may be observed and performed with good faith on the part of the United States, I have caused the premises to be made public, and I do hereby enjoin and require all persons bearing office, civil or military, within the United States, and all others, citizens or inhabitants thereof, or being within the same, faithfully to observe and fulfil the said treaty, and every article and clause therof. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have caus ed the seal of the United States to be affixed to these presents, and signed the same with my hand. DONE at the city of Washington, the twenty-fifth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America, the thirty-second. TH: JEFFERSON. By the President, JAMES MADISON, Secretary of State BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS a treaty between the United States of America, and the Ottaway, Chippeway, Wyandotte, and Pottawatimie nations of Indians, was concluded at Detroit, on the seventeenth day of November last past, and was duly ratified and confirmed by the President of the United States, on the twenty seventh day of January, in the present year, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, which treaty is in the words, following, to wit: ARTICLES of a treaty made at Detroit, this seventeenth day of November, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seven, by William Hull, governor of the territory of Michigan, and superintendant of Indian affairs, and sole commissioner of the United States, to conclude and sign a treaty or treaties, with the several nations of Indians, north west of the river Ohio, on the one part, and the sachems, chiefs, and warriors of the Ottaway, Chippeway, Wyandotte, and Pottawatimie nations of Indians, on the other part. To confirm and perpetu. ate the friendship, which happily subsists between the United States and the nations aforesaid, to manifest the sincerity of that S friendship, and to settle arrangements mutu ally beneficial to the parties; after a full explanation and perfect understanding, the following articles are agreed to, which, when ratified by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the United States, shall be binding on them, and the respective nations of Indians. Article I. The sachems, chiefs, and war- Considerariors of the nations aforesaid, in considera. tion. tion of money and goods, to be paid to the said nations, by the government of the Unit ed States as hereafter stipulated; do hereby agree to cede, and forever quit claim, and do Cession in behalf of their nations hereby cede, relinquish, and forever quit claim, unto the said United States, all right, title, and interest, which the said nations now have, or claim, or ever had, or claimed, in, or unto, the lands comprehended within the following described lines and boundaries: Beginning Boundaries. at the mouth of the Miami river of the lakes, and running thence up the middle thereof, to the mouth of the great Au Glaize river, thence running due north, until it intersects. a parallel of latitude, to be drawn from the outlet of lake Huron, which forms the river Sinclair; thence running north east the course, that may be found, will lead in a direct line, to White Rock, in lake Huron, thence due east, until it intersects the boundary line between the United States and Up. per Canada, in said lake, thence southward. ly, following the said boundary line, down said lake, through river Sinclair, lake St. Clair, and the river Detroit, into lake Erie, to a point due east of the aforesaid Miami river, thence west to the place of beginning. Art. II. It is hereby stipulated and agreed |