Articles
of a treaty, made and concluded at the Potawattimie
mills, in the State of Indiana, on the sixteenth
day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and thirty-four, between William
Marshall Commissioner on the part of the United
States and the Chiefs, headmen, and warriors of
the Potawattamis Indians.
ARTICLE 1st.
The chiefs, head men and warriors aforesaid agree
to cede to the United States their title and interest
to a reservation made to them at the treaty on
the Tippecanoe river on the 27th day of October
1832 of two sections of land to include their
mills on said river.
ART. 2nd.
In consideration of the cession aforesaid the
United States agree to pay the Potawattimie Indians,
at the payment of their annuities in 1835, the
sum of seven hundred dollars in cash, and pay
their just debts agreeably to a schedule hereunto
annexed, amounting to nine hundred dollars.
ART. 3.
The miller provided for by the 3rd article of
the treaty with the Potawattimie tribe of Indians
on the sixteenth day of October, in the year eighteen
hundred and twenty-six, is not to be supported
by the United States, and to cease from and after
the signing of this treaty.
ART. 4.
This treaty shall be binding upon both parties,
from the date of its ratification by the President
and Senate of the United States.
In testimony whereof, the said William Marshall,
commissioner on the part of the United States,
and the chiefs, head men, and warriors of the
Potawatamie tribe of Indians, have hereunto subscribed
their names, the day and year above written.
William Marshall,
Ash-kum, his x mark,
Ku-waw-nay, his x mark,
Pash-po-ho, his x mark,
Che-quawm-a-kaw-ko, his x mark,
Nas-waw-kay, his mark,
Quaush-quaw, his x mark,
Meno-quet, his x mark,
Kin-koash, his x mark,
No-law-kah, his x mark,
Me-no-mi-nee, his x mark,
Mas-kah-tah-mo-ah, his x mark,
Pee-pis-kah, his x mark,
Pam-bo-go, his x mark,
Kaw-kawk-kay, his x mark,
Wi-aw-koos-say, his x mark,
Te-kam-a-say, his x mark,
Sea-Coas, his x mark,
Waw-paw-kue, his x mark,
Mi-shaw-bo, his x mark,
Te-quaw-kit, his x mark,
Waw-pe-no-quah, his x mark,
We-wus-sah, his x mark,
O-kah-maul, his x mark,
I-you-way, his x mark,
Mat-chis-saw, his mark.
Witnesses:
J. B. Duret, secretary,
Cyrus Taber,
J. B. Boure, interpreter,
Joseph Barron, principal interpreter.
It is agreed that the United States will satisfy
the claims mentioned in the following schedule
as provided for in the second article of the foregoing
treaty.要iz:
To J. B. Duret, four hundred dollars.
To Cyrus Taber, one hundred dollars.
To Ewing Walker & Co., three hundred dollars.
To Cyrus Vigus, one hundred dollars.
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