land heretofore reserved by, or assigned to them in former treaties, either in the State of Illinois or Missouri. ART. 4. The United States cede to the combined tribes of Kaskaskias and Peorias, and the band aforesaid United with them, one hundred and fifty sections of land forever, or as long as they live upon it as a tribe, to include the present Peoria village west of the State of Missouri, on the waters of Osage river, to be bounded as follows, to wit: north by the lands assigned to the Shawanoes; west, by the western line of the reservation made for the Piankeshaws, Weas, and Peorias; and east by lands assigned the Piankeshaws and Weas. ART. 5. In consideration of the foregoing cessions and relinquishments, the United States agree to pay to the said united Kaskaskia and Peoria tribes (composed as aforesaid) an annuity of three thousand dollars for ten successive years, to be paid on the lands assigned them in common, either in money, merchandise, or domestic stock, at their option; if in merchandise, to be delivered to them free of transportation. ART. 6. And whereas, the said Peoria tribe, and the bands united with them as aforesaid, assert in council, that they never understood the 5th article of the treaty of Edwardsville, of 25th September, 1825, as ceding to the United States their claims to lands in Missouri, on which they had been settled for a length of time previous to that treaty, and of which they had had possession for more than sixty years, and now demand an equivaleut for those claims. The commissioners, with a view of quieting forever the said claims, and all demands of whatever nature which said Peoria tribe and the several bands united therewith as aforesaid, have against the government or citizens of the United States, agree to pay, viz:-To the Peorias in common with the Kaskaskias, the sum of sixteen hundred dollars, to the Kaskaskias for seven horses lost by them, and for salt annuities due to them by the treaty of Fort Wayne aforesaid, three hundred and fifty dollars; to the Peorias alone, for improvements on the lands they moved from, two hundred and fifty dollars; to the united Peorias and Kaskaskias, there shall be paid and delivered on their land as soon as practicable after the ratification of this treaty, cows and calves, and other stock, to the amount of four hundred dollars, three iron bound carts, three yoke of oxen, and six ploughs. There shall also be built for said tribes, four log houses; for breaking up ground and fencing the same, three hundred dollars; for agricultural implements, iron, and steel, fifty dollars per annum for four years. There shall also be paid to the said united tribes, on the signing of this treaty, eight hundred dollars in goods suited to their wants. Assistance shall also be given the Kaskaskias in moving to their lands, and provisions for one year after their removal, to the amount of one thousand dollars. It is understood that any stipulations in this or the pre ceding articles, for the benefit of the Peorias or Kaskaskias separately, or united, shall embrace, in either case, the bands before mentioned, united with either, or both tribes, as the case may be. ART. 7. In consideration of the stipulations contained in the preceding articles, the Peoria and Kaskaskia tribes and the bands of Michigamia, Cahokia and Tamarois Indians united with them, hereby forever cede and relinquish to the United States, their claims to lands within the States of Illinois and Missouri, and all other claims of whatsoever nature which they have had or preferred against the United States or the citizens thereof, up to the signing of this treaty. ART. 8. This treaty, after the same shall be ratified by the President and Senate of the United States, shall be obligatory on the contracting parties. 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, Nathan Kouns. PEORIAS. Wah-pe-sha-ka-na, white skin, his x mark, Ken-mah-re-ne-ah, his x mark, Pa-kee-sha-ma, cutter, his x mark, Pa-me-kaw-wa-ta, man's track, his x mark, [CONCLUDED OCTOBER 27, 1832-RATIFIED MARCH 13, 1833.] Whereas, articles of agreement between the United States of America, and the Menominee Indians, were made and concluded at the city 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 head men 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 February 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 tribes on the east side of the Fox river, which said lands are to be relinquished, shall, after being valued by a commissioner to be appointed by the President of the United States, be paid for by the Government: Provided, however, that the valuation of such improvements shall not exceed the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars. And that there shall be one township of land adjoining the foregoing, equal to twenty-three thousand and forty acres, laid off and granted for the use of the Brothertown Indians, who are to be paid by the Government the sum of one thousand six hundred dollars for the improvements on the lands now in their possession, on the east side of Fox river, and which lands are to be relinquished by said Indians: also that a new line shall be run, parallel to the southwestern boundary line or course of the tract of five hundred thousand acres, described in the first article of this treaty, and set apart for the New York Indians, to commence at a point on the west side of the Fox river, and one mile above the Grand Shute, on Fox river, and at a sufficient distance from the said boundary line as established by the said first article, as shall comprehend the additional quantity of two hundred thousand acres of land on and along the west side of Fox river, without including any of the confirmed private land claims on the Fox river; and which two hundred thousand acres shall be a part of the five hundred thousand acres intended to be set apart for the Six Nations of the New York Indians and the St. Regis tribe; and that an equal quantity to that which is added to the southwestern side shall be taken off from the northeastern side of the said tract described in that article, on the Oconto creek, to be determined by a commissioner to be appointed by the President of the United States; so that the whole number of acres to be granted to the Six Nations, and St. Regis tribe of Indians, shall not exceed the quantity originally stipulated by the treaty." And whereas, before the treaty aforesaid, conditionally ratified, according to the proviso to the resolution of the Senate, above recited, could be obligatory upon the said Menominee nation, their assent to the same must be had and obtained. And whereas, the honorable Lewis Cass, Secretary of the Department of War, by his letter of instructions of the eleventh day of September, A. D. 1832, did authorize and request George B. Porter, Governor of the Territory of Michigan, to proceed to Green Bay, and endeavor to procure the assent of the Menominees to the change proposed by the Senate, as above set forth, urging the necessity of directing his first efforts to an attempt to procure the unconditional assent of the Menominees to the said treaty, as ratified by the Senate. But should he fail in this object, that he would then endeavor to procure their assent to the best practicable terms, short of those proposed by the Senate, giving them to understand that he merely received such proposition as they might make, with a view to transmit it for the consideration of the President and the Senate of the United States. And if this course became necessary, that it would be very desirable that the New York Indians should also signify their acceptance of the modifications required by the Menominees. And whereas, in pursuance of the said instructions the said George B. Porter proceeded to Green Bay, and having assembled all the chiefs and head men of the Menominee nation, in council, submitted to them, on the twenty-second day of October, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, the said proviso annexed to the resolution aforesaid of the Senate of the United States, for the ratification of the said treaty: and advised and urged on them the propriety of giving their assent to the same. And the said chiefs and head men having taken time to deliberate and reflect on the proposition so submitted to them, and which they had been urged to assent to, did, in the most positive and decided manner, refuse to give their assent to the same. (The many reasons assigned for this determination by them being reported in the journal of the said commissioner, which will be transmitted with this agreement.) And whereas, after failing in the object last stated, the said George B. Porter endeavored to procure the assent of the said chiefs and head men of the Menominee nation to the best practicable terms short of those proposed by the Senate of the United States; and after much labor and pains, entreaty and persuasion, the said Menominees consented to the following, as the modifications which they would make, and which are reduced to writing, in the forin of an agreement, as the best practicable terms which could be obtained from them, short of those proposed by the Senate of the United States, which they had previously positively refused to accede to. And as the modifications so made and described, have been acceded to by the New York Indians, with a request that the treaty thus modified might be ratified and approved by the President and the Senate of the United States, it is the anxious desire of the Menominees also, that the treaty, with these alterations, may be ratified and approved without delay, that they may receive the benefits and advantage secured to them by the several stipulations of the said treaty, of which they have so long been deprived. The following is the article of agreement made between the said George B. Porter, commissioner on the part of the United States, specially appointed as aforesaid, and the said Menominee nation, through their chiefs and head men, on the part of their nation. ART. 1. The said chiefs and head men of the Menominee nation of Indians do not object to any of the matters contained in the proviso annexed to the resolution of the Senate of the United States, so far as the same relate to the granting of three townships of land on the east side of Winnebago lake, to the Stockbridge, Munsee, and Brothertown tribes; to the valuation and payment for their improvements, etc. (ending with the words "and which lands are to be relinquished by said Indians.") They therefore assent to the same. ART. 2. The said chiefs and head men of the Menominee nation of Indians, objecting to all the matters contained in the said proviso annexed to the resolution of the Senate of the United States, so far as the same relate to the running of a new line parallel to the southwestern boundary line or course of the tract of five hundred thousand acres, described in the first article of the treaty, and set apart for the New York Indians, to commence at a point on the southwestern side of Fox river, and one mile above the Grand Shute, on Fox river, and at a sufficient distance from the said boundary line, as established by the said first article, as shall com |