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TREATY WITH THE MIAMI INDIANS. Junm 5, 1854. 1093 FRANKLIN PIERCE, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: ro Au. Ann smconax T0 Wn0M rumen rnnsnnrs smut cons, onnmme: _;,,,,,, 5’1854· Wnmznss a treaty was made and concluded on the fifth day of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, between George W. Manypenny, Commissioner on the part of the United States, and the following-named delegates, representing the Miami tribe of Indians, viz: Nah-we-lan-quah, or Big Legs; Ma-cat-a-chin-quah, or Little Doctor; Lan-a—pin-chah, or Jack Hackley ; So·ne-lan-gish-eah, or John Bowrie; and Wan-zop-e-ah; they being thereto duly authorized by said tribe-—and Me—shin-go·me-zia, Po-con-ge-ah, Pim-yi—oh-te-mah, Wop—pop-pe·tah, or Bondy, and Ke-ahcot—woh, or Buifalo, Miami Indians, residents of the State of Indiana, being present, and assenting, approving, and agreeing to, and confirming said articles of agreement and convention; which treaty is in the words following, to wit :-—— Articles of agreement and convention made and concluded at the city of Washington, this fifth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, between George W. Manypenny, Commissioner . on the part of the United States, and the following named delegates representing the Miami tribe of Indians, viz: Nah-we~lan-quah, or Big Legs; Ma-cat-a· chin-quah, or Little Doctor; Lan-a-pin-chah, or Jack Hackleyi Some- Ian-gish—eah, or John Bowrie; and Wan-zop-e-ah; they being thereto. duly authorized by said tribe--and Me—shin-go-me-zia, Po—con-ge-ah, Pim-yi-oh-te-mah, Wop-pop—pe-tab, or Bondy, and Ke-ah-cot·woh, or Buffalo, Miami Indians, residents of the State of Indiana, being present, and assenting, approving, agreeing to, and confirming said articles of agreement and convention. Anjrxonn 1. The said Miami Indians hereby cede and convey to the {Jessica to the United States, all that certain tract of country set apart and assigned to Umm Sumthe said tribe, by the article added by the Senate of the United States, by resolution of the date of February twenty-fifth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, to the treaty of November twenty-eighth, one thousand Vol. p.685. eight hundred and forty, and denominated among the amendments of the Senate as “Article 12," which was assented to by said Indians, on the fifteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one; which tract is designated in said article, as “ bounded on the east by the State of Missouri, and on the north by the country of the Weas and Piankeshaws, on the west by the Pottowatornies of Indiana, and on the south by the land assigned to the New York Indians, estimated to contain five hundred thousand acres," excepting and reserving therefrom seventy thou- Reservation Sand acres for their future homes, and also a section of six hundred and §;‘i£g{;‘°°· ****6- forty acres for school purposes, to be selected and assigned to said tribe as ' hereinafter provided. _ _ _ ARTICLE 2. The United States shall, as soon as it can conveniently thD¤lé<;¤3¤;:dg'*` be done, cause the lands herein ceded and reserved, to be surveyed, as the ° °° government lands are surveyed, the Miamis bearing the expense of sur· Vey of the reserved lend; and within four months after the approval of such surveys, each individual or head of a family of the Miami tribe, now residing on said lands, shall select, if a single person, two hundred acres; and if the head of a family, a quantity equal to two hundred acres for