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290 TREATY WITH THE CHIPPEWAS. 1826.
and Alabama shall not be reached by the extension of the two lines

aforesaid, the one three, and the other fifteen miles, they are to run and terminate as defined in this supplemental article to the.Treaty aforesaid. Paymantie It is hereby agreed, in consideration of the extension of said lines, C¤’°°kS· on the part of the other party to the Treaty aforesaid, in behalf of the United States, to pay to the Creek Nation, immediately upon the ratification of said Treaty, the sum of thirty thousand dollars. In witness whereof, the parties aforesaid have hereunto set their hands and seals, this thirty-first day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six. JAMES BARBOUR. Opothle Yoholo, Apauli Tustennuggee, John Stidham, Coosa Tustennuggee, Mad Wolf, Mahetluc Hopie, Tuskeekee Tustennuggee, Selocta, Yoholo Micco, Timpoochy Barnett, Menawee, Ledagee. Charles Cornnels, In presence of Thomas L. McKenney. John Crowell, Agent for I. A. John Ridge, Secretary. David Vann. Wm. Hambly. To the Indian names are subjoined marks.

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ARTICLES OF A TREATY

Aug. 5, 1826.

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Proclamation, Feb. 7, 1827.
Made and concluded at the Font du Lac of Lake Superior, this fifth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, between Lewis Cass and Thomas L. McKenney, Commissioners on the part of the United States, and the Chippewa Tribe of Indians.
Preamble. WHEREAS a Treaty was concluded at Prairie du Chien in August last, by which the war, which has been so long carried on, to their mutual distress, between the Chippewas and Sioux, was happily terminated by the intervention of the United States; and whereas, owing to the remote and dispersed situation of the Chippewas, full deputations of their different bands did not attend at Prairie du Chien, which circumstance, from the loose nature of the Indian government, would render the Treaty of doubtful obligation, with respect to the bands not represented; and whereas, at the request of the Chippewas Chiefs, a stipulation was inserted in the Treaty of Prairie du Chien, by which the United States agreed to assemble the Chippewa Tribe upon Lake Superior during the present year, in order to give full effect to the said Treaty, to explain its stipulations and to call upon the whole Chippewa tribe, assembled at their general council fire, to give their formal assent thereto, that the peace which has been concluded may be rendered permanent, therefore—

ARTICLE 1.

Indians agree tot hte treaty of Prairie du Chien. The Chiefs and Warriors of the Chippewa Tribe of Indians hereby fully assent to the Treaty concluded in August last at Prairie du Chien, and engage to observe and fulfil the stipulations thereof.