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146 TREATY WITH THE OTTAWAS, ETC. 1816. Boundary line ART. 3. The boundary line, surveyed and marked by the United ¢<>¤6¤¤¢<i· States, of the land on the Wabash and White rivers, ceded in the yea,. eighteen hundred and nine, the said tribes do hereby explicitly recognise and confirm, as having been executed conformably to the several trea. ties they have made with the United States. g;;,,;.,,,,,,,,,, ac, Amr. 4. The chiefs and warriors of the said tribe of the Kiekapim knowledge a acknowledge that they have ceded to the United States all that tract of f°rm" °°SS“m‘ country which lies between the afof€SBid l'>0l1HdHl'y line OD the north west side of the Wabash-the Wabash, the Vermillion river, and a line to be drawn from the north west corner of the said boundary line, so as to strike the Vermillion river twenty miles in a direct line from its mouth, according to the terms and conditions of the treaty they made with the United States on the ninth day of December, in the year eighteen hundred and nine. In testimony whereof; the said Benjamin Parke, and the chiefs and head men of the said tribes, have hereunto set their hands and aiiixed their seals, at Fort Harrison, in the Indiana Territory, the fourth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixteen. B. PARKE. Wcas. Kickapoos. Mesaupeekaunga, or Gamlan, Sbeshepah, or Little Duck, Jacco, Kaanebkaka, or Drunkard’s Son, Kesanguekamya, or Buffalo, Shekonah, or Stone, Chequiha, or Little Eyes, Mahquah, or Bear, Mahquakouonga, or Negro Legs, Penashee, or Little Turkey, Pcquaiah, or George, Mehtabkokeah, Big Tree, Kenokosetah, or Long Body, Mauqnasconiah, Big Tree, Owl, (a Miami) Keetabtey, or Little Otter, Mahchekeleatab, or Big Man, (a Nopiseeah, Blackberry, Miami.) Pehsquonatah, Blackberry Flower, Tecumtbena, Track in Prairie. Done in the presence of John L. M·Cullough, secretary to the commissioner. John T. Chumm, major, commanding Fort Harrison. Gab. I. Floyd, lieutenant United States army. Th. M·Call, of Vincennes. Hen. Gilliam, of do. N. B. Bailey, of do. Qeo. C. Copp. Michael Brouillet, anteprete au for arisonne. Joseph Barron, sworn interpreter. To the Indian names are subjoined a mark and seal. A TREATY OF PEACE, FRIENDSHIP, AND LIMITS, Aug. 24, 1816. Made and concluded between Mnian Edwards, William Clark, p,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, and Auguste Chouteau, commissioners plennzotentiary ry` the Dec. 30, 1816. United States of America, on the part and behay of said states, of the one part, and the chiefs and warriors of the uni/ed tribes of Qttawas, Chipawas, and Pottowotomees, residing on the Illinois and Melwakce rivers, and their waters, and on the southwestern parts of Lake Zlhchigan, of the other part. Wnnxnas a serious dispute has for some time past existed between the contracting parties relative to the right to a part of the lands ceded to the United States by the tribes of Sacs and Foxes, on the third day of,Novernber, one thousand eight hundred and four, and both parties being desirous of preserving a harmonious and friendly intercourse, and