TREATY WITH THE SENECA INDIANS. NOVEMBER 5, 1857. 735 Treaty between the United States and the Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians, Ooncluded Mnvember 5, 1857. Supplemental Articles, November 5, 1857. Rattfied by the Senate, June 4, 1858. Proclaimed by the President, March 31, 1859.* JAMES BUCHANAN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, TO ALL AND SINGULAR TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL conn, omznrxne: Wiinnnas, a treaty was made and concluded at the meetinghouse, on NOV- 5» 1857- the Tonawanda reservation, in the county of Genesee, and State of New Preamble. York, on the fifth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and fifty- seven, by Charles E. Mix, as a commissioner on behalf of the United States, and the following persons, viz: Jabez Ground, Jesse Spring, Isaac Shanks, George Sky, and Ely S. Parker, duly authorized thereunto by the Tonawanda band of Seneca Indians, which treaty is in the following words, to wit: Articles of agreement and convention made this hfth day of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, at the meetinghouse on the Tonawanda reservation, in the county of Genesee, and State of New York, between Charles E. Mix, commissioner on behalf of the Qontracting United States, and the following persons, duly authorized thereunto by the p“""’S‘ Tonawanda. band of Seneca Indians, viz: Jabez Ground, Jesse Spring, Isaac Shanks, George Sky, and Ely S. Parker. `Whereas a certain treaty was heretofore made between the Six Nations _ Former Treap of New York Indians and the United States on the 15th day of January, Qi? vii 550 1838, and another between the Seneca nation of Indians and the United 557,. 'pp` ’ States on the 20th day of May, 1842, by which, among other things, the VOL vii- D- 586- Seneca nation of Indians granted and conveyed to Thomas Ludlow Ogden and Joseph Fellows the two certain Indian reservations in the State of New York known as the Buffalo Creek and the Tonawanda reservations, to be surrendered to the said Ogden and Fellows, on the performance of certain conditions precedent defined in said treaties ; and lVhereas in and by the said treaties there were surrendered and relin- T TBYWS of Said quished to the United States 500,000 acres of land in the then Territory www of Wisconsin; and Whereas the United States, in and by said treaties, agreed to set apart for said Indians certain lands in the Indian territory immediately west of Missouri, and to grant the same to them, to be held and enjoyed in feesimple, the quantity of said lands being computed to afibrd 320 acres to each soul of said Indians, and did agree that any individual, or any number of said Indians, might remove to said territory, and thereupon be entitled to hold and enjoy said lands, and all the benefits of said treaties, according to numbers, respectively ; and Whereas the United States did further agree to pay the sum of $400,000 fbr the removal of the Indians of New York to the said territory, and for their support and assistance during the first year of their residence in said territory; and
- This treaty does not appear in the pamphlet laws for the 2d session of the 35th
Congress, as it was not received by the publishers until after their publication. It will be printed with the pamphlet laws of the 1st session of the 36th Congress. It · ig itiperted here to make the references nom the Public Laws in this volume compe .
