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590 TREATY WITH THE SENECAS. 1842. Indenture be. hereinbefore referred to, and also those of holding the treaty now in 2’¢ig¤nL¤dl¤Wd negotiation between the United States and the said Seneca Nation, exnw $6;;; cept so far as may be provided for by the United States, shall be add5nnS_ vanced and paid by the said Ogden and Fellows. "ARTICLE Nmrn. The parties to this compact mutually agree to solicit the influence of the Government of the United States to protect such of the lands of the Seneca Indians, within the State of New York, as may from time to time remain in their possession from all taxes, and assessments for roads, highways, or any other purpose until such lands shall be sold and conveyed by the said Indians, and the possession thereof shall have been relinquished by them. " In witness whereof, the parties to these presents have hereunto, and to three other instruments of the same tenor and date, one to remain with the United States, one to remain with the State of Massachusetts, one to remain with the Seneca Nation of Indians, and one to remain with the said Thomas Ludlow Ogden and Joseph Fellows, interchangeably set their hands and seals the day and year first above written." Tunnnronr: taking into consideration the premises it is agreed and stipulated by and between the United States of America and the Seneca nation of Indians, as follows, to wit: ’ U. S. agree to First, The United States of America consent to the several articles Mid i¤d°¤*‘”°· and stipulations contained in the last recited Indenture between the said nation, and the said Thomas Ludlow Ogden and Joseph Fellows, above set forth. Indians who Second, The United States further consent and agree that any numremove under ber of the said nation, who shall remove from the State of New York,

‘£°‘{S‘;€)Ag;‘n under the provisions of the above mentioned Treaty proclaimed as

ned ,0 bane6m` aforesaid, on the fourth day of April one thousand eight hundred and thereof. forty, shall be entitled in proportion to their relative numbers to all the benefits of the said Treaty. 10rh article_of T/rim', The United States of America further consent and agree, lf2V P{°gg""‘ that the tenth article of said Treaty proclaimed as aforesaid on the i840,pn;Odingd_ fourth day of April one thousand eight hundred and forty, be deemed, and considered as modified, in conformity with the provisions of the Indenture hereinabove set forth, so far as that the United States will receive and pay the sum stipulated to be paid as the consideration money of the improvements therein specified, and will receive hold and apply the sum to be paid, or the securities to be given for the lands therein mentioned, as provided for in such Indenture. In testimony whereof the undersigned Ambrose Spencer Commissioner on the part of the United States of America, and the undersigned chiefs and headmen of the Seneca nation of Indians, have to two parts of this treaty, one thereof to remain with the United States, and the other thereof with the Seneca nation of Indians, set their hands and aflixed their seals the day and year first above mentioned. AMBROSE SPENCER. Tit-ho-yah, or William Jones, John Seneca, or J o-on.da-goh, Saul Lagure, Ho-no-yea»os, or Jacob Bennett, Gnu-geh-gruh·doh, or George Jimison, George Turkey, N. T. Strong, Daniel Fan Guns, Hau-neh-hoys-sob, or Blue Eyes, Goat-hau-oh, or Billy Shanks, Jabez Stevenson, Daniel Fan Guns, William Krouse, Goat-han-oh, or Billy Shanks, Samuel Wilson, or Ni-ge-jos-a, James Pierce, William Krouse, Gi-ent-twa-geh, or Robert Watt,