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TREATY WITH THE KANSAS. 1815. I37 Arvr. 3. The contracting parties do hereby agree, promise, and oblige Prisoners mba themselves, reciprocally to deliver up all the prisoners now in their d°h'°'°d “P‘ hands, (by what means soever the same may have come into their possession,) to the officer commanding at St. Louis, to be by him restored to their respective nations, as soon as it may be practicable. Amr. 4. The contracting parties, in the sincerity of mutual friend- jFormertreaship, recognize, re-establish, and confirm, all and every treaty, contract, gs fo‘;’Er';";’g and agreement, heretofore concluded between the United States and the ` said Iaway tribe or nation. In witness whereof, the said William Clark, Ninian Edwards, and Auguste Chouteau, Commissioners as aforesaid, and the aforesaid King, Chiefs, and Warriors, have hereunto subscribed their names and aliixed their seals, this sixteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, and of the independence of the United States the fortieth. WILLIAM CLARK, NINIAN EDWARDS, AUGUSTE CHOUTEAU. Wyingwaha, or hard heart, Wohomppee, the broth, Wongehehronyne, or big chief, Shongatong, the horse jockey, Wonehee, or the slave, N ahocheininugga, without ears, Hahraga, the forked horn, Conja, the plumb, Eniswahanee, the big axe, Chahowhrowpa, the dew-lap, Washcommanee, the great marcher, Manuhanu, the great walker, Wyimppishcoonee, the ill-bumored Chapee, the pine buifaloe, man, Okugwata., the roller, Ranoingga, the little pipe, Ishtagrasa, grey eyes. Done at Portage des Sioux, in the presence of R. Wash, secretary to the commission. D. Bissel, brig. gen. T. Paul, C. C. T. Samuel Brady, lieut. Geo. Fisher, surgeon Illinois regt. P. Chouteau, agent. Jno. W. Johnson, U. S. factor and I. agent. Samuel Solomon, interpreter. Maurice Blondeaux, agt. Louis Dorion. Dennis Julien. Jas. M·Coll0cl1, capt. To the Indian names are nubjoiued a mark and se¤.L A TREATY OF PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP, Made and concluded between Ninian Edwards and Auguste Oc!. 28. 1815· Chouteau, Commissumers Plenijootentiary of the United States Ratified, Dee. of America, on the part and behatf of the said States, of one 26¤ 1818- part; and the undersigned Chiefs and Warriors of the Kanzas Tribe of Indians, on the part and behalf of their said Tribe, of the other part. Ter: parties being desireous of re·establishing peace and friendship between the United States and their said tribe, and of being placed, in all things, and in every respect, upon the same footing upon which they stood before the late war between the United States and Great Britain, have agreed to the following articles: Arvrrcne 1. Every injury or act of hostility by one or either of the I¤.l}¤'l¤¤. Gm. pontracting parties against the other, shall be mutually forgiven and R"'K"°“· or ot. g 18 M 2