tionment, agreeably to their respective claims, to the creditors of the said tribe, as specified in the schedule furnished him. And should any balance remain in his hands after said apportionment and payment, it shall be by him paid over to the said Kickapoo tribe, for their use and benefit. ART. 4. The United States further agree to pay to the Kickapoo tribe, an annuity of five thousand dollars per annum, in merchandise, at its cost at St. Louis, or in money, at their option, for nineteen successive years, commencing with the second year after the ratification of this treaty. ART. 5. The United States will pay one thousand dollars annually for five successive years, for the support of a blacksmith and strikers, purchase of iron, steel, tools, &c., for the benefit of said tribe, on the lands hereby assigned them. ART. 6. The United States agree to pay thirty-seven hundred dollars for the erection of a mill and a church for the use of said tribe, on the aforesaid lands. ART. 7. The United States will pay five hundred dollars per annum, for ten successive years, for the support of a school, purchase of books, &c., for the benefit of said Kickapoo tribe, on the lands herein ceded to them. ART. 8. The United States agree to pay three thousand dollars for farming utensils, when such utensils may be required by said tribe, on their land. ART. 9. The United States will pay four thousand dollars for labor and improvements on the lands herein ceded said Kickapoos. ART. 10. The United States agree to pay four thousand dollars in cattle, hogs, and such other stock as may be required by the said tribe; to be also delivered on their land. ART. 11. There shall be paid in merchandise and cash, to the Kickapoos now present, for the use and benefit of their tribe, six thousand dollars, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged; which amount, together with the several stipulations contained in the preceding articles, shall be considered as a full compensation for the cession herein made by said Kickapoo tribe. The United States will furnish said Indians with some assistance when removing to the lands hereby assigned them, and supply them with one year's provisions after their arrival on said lands. ART. 12. The United States agree to run and mark out the boundary lines of the lands hereby ceded to the said tribe, within three years from the date of the ratification of this treaty. ART. 13. The said Indians agree to remove with as little delay as possible, to the land hereby ceded to them. ART. 14. The United States agree, at the particular request of the Kickapoos, that a deputation of their tribe shall be sent, with one or two of the commissioners, to view the lands hereby ceded to them, which deputation and commissioners jointly agreeing, shall have power to alter the boundary lines so as to make a se lection of a body of land not exceeding twelve hundred square miles, adjoining to, and lying between the Big Nemaha river and the Delaware lands, and of changing the lines of the land hereby ceded in the second article of this treaty, not exceeding half the front on the Missouri between the mouth of Big Nemaha and fort Leavenworth, so as to include a suitable site for a mill seat, should it be desired by said tribe and appear necessary to the commissioners. And it is understood, that if the commissioners, on viewing the land ceded in the second article of this treaty, shall find it of good quality, and sufficient for said tribe, then the aforesaid second article to be as binding on the contracting parties, as if this article had not been inserted. ART. 15. This treaty to be binding when ratified by the President and Senate of the United States. In testimony whereof, the commissioners aforesaid, and the undersigned chiefs, warriors and counsellors aforesaid, have hereunto subscribed their hands and affixed their seals, this twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty-two, and of the independence of the United States, the fifty-seventh. Wm. Clark, Frank J. Allen, Nathan Kouns, Pa-sha-cha-hah, jumping fish, his x mark, Ka-ana-kuck, the prophet, his x mark, Pemo-quoi-ga, rolling thunder, his x mark, Pa-ana-wah-ha, elk shedding his hair, his x mark, Ma-cuta-we-she-kah, black fisher, his x mark, Pah-ta-kah-quoi, striking woman, his x mark, L. S. L. S. L. S. L. S. L. S. L. S. L. S. L. S. L. S. L. S. L. S. L. S. L. S. L. S. L. S. L. S. L. S. L. S. L. S. Ah-nuck-quet-ta, the cloud, or black thunder, his x mark, L. S. Ma-cutta-mah-qui, black loon, his x mark. Signed in presence of James Kemmly, Secretary, L. S. L. S. A. Shane, U. S. Interpreter, Jacques Mette, U. S. Interp. Supplemental article to the treaty with the Kickapoo tribe of Indians, of the twenty-fourth October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two. The undersigned, commissioners on the part of the United States, and a deputation of Kickapoos, on the part of the Kickapoo tribe of Indians, having visited the lands assigned to the said tribe by the second article of a treaty with the said tribe, concluded at Castor Hill, in the county of Saint Louis and State of Missouri, on the twenty-fourth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and by authority of the powers vested in the said commissioners, and the said deputation, by the fourteenth article of the aforesaid treaty, have agreed that the boundary lines of the lands assigned to the Kickapoos, shall begin on the Delaware line, where said line crosses the left branch of Salt creek, thence down said creek to the Missouri river, thence up the Missouri river thirty miles when measured on a straight line, thence westwardly to a point twenty miles from the Delaware line, so as to include in the lands assigned the Kickapoos, at least twelve hundred square miles. Done at fort Leavenworth, this twenty-sixth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two. Nathan Kouns, Frank J. Allen, Nam-a-co-wa-ha, the bear, his x mark, Na-poi-haw, the man asleep, his x mark, Signed and sealed in presence of James Kemmly, Secretary, Winslow Turner, L. S. L. S. L. S.. L. S. L. S. L. S. Wm. N. Wickliffe, Cap. 6th Inf. And. L. Hughes, U. S. Indian J. Freeman, Lt. 6th. Infantry, Agent. POTTAWATIMIES. [CONCLUDED OCTOBER 26, 1832-RATIFIED JANUARY 21, 1833. ] Articles of a treaty, made and concluded on Tippecanoe river, in the State of Indiana, between Jonathan Jennings, John W. Davis, and Marks Crume, commissioners on the part of the United States, and the chiefs, head men, and warriors of the Pottawatimie Indians, this twenty-sixth day of October, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-two. ART. 1. The chiefs, head men, and warriors, aforesaid, agree to cede to the United States their title and interest to lands in the State of Indiana, to wit: beginning at a point on Lake Michigan, where the line dividing the States of Indiana and Illinois intersects the same; thence with the margin of said lake, to the intersection of the southern boundary of a cession made by the Pottawatimies, at the treaty of the Wabash, of eighteen hundred and twenty-six; thence east, to the northwest corner of the cession made by the treaty of St. Joseph's, in eighteen hundred and twenty-eight; thence south ten miles; thence with the Indian boundary line to the Michigan road; thence south with said road to the northern boundary line, as designated in the treaty of eighteen hundred and twenty-six, with the Pottawatimies; thence west with the Indian boundary line to the river Tippecanoe ; thence with the Indian boundary line, as established by the treaty of eighteen hundred and eighteen, at St. Mary's, to the line dividing the States of Indiana and Illinois; and thence north, with the line dividing the said States, to the place of beginning. ART. 2. From the cession aforesaid, the following reservations are made, to wit: For the band of Aub-be-naub-bee, thirty-six sections, to include his village. For the bands of Men-o-mi-nee, No-taw-kah, Muck-kah-tahmo-way, and Pee-pin-oh-waw, twenty-two sections. For the bands of O-kaw-wause, Kee-waw-nay, and Nee-bosh, eight sections. For J. B. Shadernah, one section of land in the Door Prairie, where he now lives. For the band of Com-o-za, two sections. For the band of Mah-che-saw, two sections. For the band of Mau-ke-kose, six sections. For the bands of Nees-waugh-gee, and Quash-qua, three seetions. ART. 3. In consideration of the cession aforesaid, the United States agree to pay to the Pottawatimie Indians, an annuity for the term of twenty years, of twenty thousand dollars; and will deliver to them goods to the value of one hundred thousand dollars, so soon after the signing of this treaty as they can be procured; and a further sum of thirty thousand dollars, in goods, shall be paid to them in the year eighteen hundred and thirtythree, by the Indian agent at Eel river. ART. 4. The United States agree to pay the debts due by the Pottawatimies, agreeably to a schedule hereunto annexed; amounting to sixty-two thousand four hundred and twelve dollars. ART. 5. The United States agree to provide for the Pottawatimies, if they shall at any time hereafter wish to change their residence, an amount, either in goods, farming utensils, and such other articles as shall be required and necessary, in good faith, and to an extent equal to what has been furnished any other In dian tribe or tribes emigrating, and in just proportion to their numbers. ART. 6. The United States agree to erect a saw mill on their lands, under the direction of the President of the United States. In testimony whereof, the said Jonathan Jennings, John W. Davis, and Marks Crume, commissioners as aforesaid, and the chiefs, head men, and warriors of the Pottawatimies, have hereunto set their hands at Tippecanoe river, on the twentysixth day of October, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-two. Witness: Geo. B. Walker. Louison, his x mark, Muak-kose, his x mark, Jonathan Jennings, witnesses: William Marshall, Ind. Agent, J. B. Bourie, Interpreter, After the signing this treaty, and at the request of the Indians, five thousand one hundred and thirty-five dollars were applied to |