TREATY WITH THE WYANDOTS, ETC. 1789. 29 said United States, and the presents they then received, as well as of a quantity of goods to the value of six thousand dollars, now delivered to them by the said Arthur St. Clair, the receipt whereof they do hereby acknowledge, do by these presents renew and confirm the said boundary line; to the end that the same may remain as a division line between the lands of the United States of America, and the lands of said nations, forever. And the undersigned Indians do hereby in their own names, Lands ceded and the names of their respective nations and tribes, their heirs and de- to U. S. scendants, for the consideration above-mentioned, release, quit claim, relinquish and cede to the said United States, all the land east, south and west of the lines above described, so far as the said Indians formerly claimed the same; for them the said United States to have and to hold the same in true and absolute propriety forever. ARTICLE III. The United States of America do by these presents relinquish and U.S. qait-claim quit claim to the said nations respectively, all the lands lying between the limits above described, for them the said Indians to live and hunt liberty ,,,,1,8, upon, and otherwise to occupy as they shall see fit: But the said nations, pose of said or either of them, shall not be at liberty to sell or dispose of the same, 8;;*- °‘°°P‘· or any part thereof, to any sovereign power, except the United States ; ‘ nor to the subjects or citizens of any other sovereign power, nor to the subjects or citizens of the United States. ARTICLE IV. It is agreed between the said United States and the said nations, that Indians at libthe individuals of said nations shall be at liberty to hunt within the ter- ;’;*¥t;° h¤g5;y ritory ceded to the United States, without hindrance or molestation, so will C long as they demean themselves peaceably, and offer no in'ury or annoyance to any of the subjects or citizens of the said United States. ARTICLE V. It is agreed that if any Indian or Indians of the nations before men- Individuals of tioned, shall commit a murder or robbery on any of the citizens of the United States, the nation or tribe to which the offender belongs, on 0, yobgepy 0,, complaint being made, shall deliver up the person or persons complained thecther, to be of; at the nearest post of the United States; to the end, that he or they g‘;jV°'°d “P {0* may be tried, and if found guilty, punished according to the laws estab- ' lished in the territory of the United States north-west of the river Ohio, for the punishment of such offences, if the same shall have been committed within the said territory; or according to the laws of the State where the offence may have been committed, if the same has happened in any of the United States. In like manner, if any subject or citizen of the United States shall commit murder or robbery on any Indian or Indians of the said nations, upon complaint being made thereof, he or they shall be arrested, tried and punished agreeable to the laws of the state or of the territory wherein the offence was committed ; that nothing may interrupt the peace and harmony now established between the United States and said nations. ARTICLE VI. And whereas the practice of stealing horses has prevailed very much, Persons to be to the great disquiet of the citizens of the United States, and if per- ?°,;’°5°}Y P2"', sisted in, cannot fail to involve both the United States of America and 5g8h0g;; su ` é the Indians in endless animosity, it is agreed that it shall be put an which may be i entire stop to on both sides; nevertheless, should some individuals, in Ticwmedtby z defiance of this agreement, and of the laws provided against such ;,,§,,[;:rji,,,; b,,-
offences, continue to make depredations of that nature, the person con- long.
- victed thereof shall he punished with the utmost severity the laws of the
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