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313 TREATY WITH THE POTTAWATIMIES. 1828. treaty, or as soon thereafter as they can be procured; an additional sum of ten thousand dollars, in goods, and another of five thousand dollars, in specie, shall be paid to them in the year 1829. Purchase of The sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars shall be expended domestic ani- for the said tribe, under the direction of the President of the·United m“l“· &*°· States, in clearing and fencing land, erecting houses, purchasing domestic animals and farming utensils, and in the support of labourers to k f th . Tobacco, iron w0Twd”th0d;ind pounds of tobacco, fifteen hundred weight of iron, and and steel- three hundred and fifty pounds of steel, shall be annually delivered to them. Edoooqom One thousand dollars per annum shalllbe applied for the purposes of education, as long as Congress may think the appropriation may be useful. Auowmm of One hundred dollars, in goods, shall be annually paid to To-pen-i-be goods to prim the, principal chief of the said tribe, during his natural llife. The °lP°l °hl°€ blacksmith, tipulated by the treaty of Chicago to be provided forthe B1°°kSm“h' term of tiiteen years, shall be permanently supported by the United States. . Laborers_ Three labourers shall be provided, during four months of the year, for ten years, to work for the band living upon the reservation South of the St. Joseph. G,.,,,,,, Orland An·r..3. There shall be granted to the following persons, all of whom toindividual In- are Indians by descent, the tracts of land hereafter mentioned, which ?‘“"'·’"P“l“*°d shall be located upon the second cession above described, where the OL President of the United States may direct, after the country may be surveyed, and to correspond with the surveys, provided that no location shall be made upon the Elkheart Prairie, nor within five miles of the same; nor shall the tracts there granted be conveyed by the grantees, without the consent of the President of the United States. To Sah-ne-mo·quay, wife of Jean B. Dutrist, one-half section of land. To Way-pe-nah-te-mo-quay, wife of Thomas Robb, one half section of land. To Me·no-ka-mick-quay, wife of Edward McCarty, one half section of land. To Ship-pe-shick-quay, wife of James Wyman, one half section of land. To Assapo, wife of Antoine Gamlin, one half section of land. To Moahquay, wife of Richard Chabert, one half section of land. To Me-shaw-ke-to-quay, wife of George Cicot, two sections of land. To Mary Préjean, wife of Louis St. Combe, one section of land. To To-pe-naw-koung, wife of Peter Langlois, one section of land. To Au-bee-nan-bee, a Potowatami chief, two sections of land. To Me-che-hee, wife of Charles Minie, a half section of land. To Louison, a Potowatamie, a reservation of one section, to include his house and corniield. To Kes-he-wa-quay, wife of Pierre F. N avarre, one section of land. To Benac, a Potowatami, one section of land. To Pe·pe»·ne-way, a chief, one section of land. To Pierre Le Clair, one section of land. [To Joseph Barron, a white man who has long lived with the Indians, and to whom they are much attached, two sections of land; but the rejection of this grant is not to affect any other parts of the treaty.]"" To Betsey Ducharme, one half section of land. The section of land granted by the treaty of Chicago to Nancy Burnett, now Nancy Davis,

  • This paragraph was excepted, and not ratified.