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TREATY WITH THE WEAS. 1818. 187 Am-. 3. The United States agree to grant to Christmas Dageny and Grant to C. Mary Shields, formerly Mary Dageny, children of Mechinquamesha, D°g°mSY and sister of Jacco, a chief of the said tribe, and their heirs, one section of Mary hmm' land each; but the land hereby granted shall not be conveyed or transfered to any person or persons, by the grantees aforesaid, or their heirs, or either of them, but with the consent of the President of the United States. Am. 4. The said Wea tribe of Indians accede to, and sanction, the The Wear cession of land made by the Kickapoo tribe of Indians, in the second S?’"°'“,2'l"·§°:‘ article of a treaty concluded between the United States and the said $j,`;n;$;ck:,00,y Kickapoo tribe, on the ninth day of December, one thousand eight in 1809. hundred and nine. A‘“°¤ P· up" AM. 5. In consideration of the cession made in the foregoing articles p,,,.,,,,,,, t, of this treaty, the United States agree to pay to the said Wea tribe of Weas. Indians, one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars annually, in addition to the sum of one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars, (the amount of their former annuity,) making a sum total of three thousand dollars; to be paid in silver, by the United States, annually, to the said tribe, on the reservation described by the second article of this treaty. In testimony whereof the said Jonathan Jennings, Lewis Cass, and Benjamin Park, commissioners as aforesaid, and the sachems, chiefs, and warriors, of the Wea tribe of Indians, have hereunto set their hands, at St. Mary’s, in the state of Ohio, this second day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. JONATHAN JENNINGS, LEWIS CASS, B. PARKE. Jacco, Shepaqua, or Leaves. Shawanoe, . . Shequiah, or Little Eyes, Kwkapoo c}"?:,' Quema, or Young Man, Metagekoka, or Big Tree, Pcequiah, Wako, or Fox. Shingonsa, or Mink, In presence of James Dill, Secretary to the Commissioners. Wm. Turner, Secretary. Jno. Johnston, Indian Agent. William Prince, Indian Agent. B. F. Stickney, S. I. A. John Conner. Joseph Barron, Interpreter. Jno. T. Chunn, Major 3d Infantry. J. Hackley, Capt. 3d Infantry. ·|· Benedict Jh. Flaget, Bishop of Bardstown. To the Indian names are suhjoimd muh.