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ARTICLES OF A TREATY Made and concluded at the Village of Prairie du Chien, Michi- Aug. 1, 1829. gan Territory, on this jirst day of August, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, between the United J¤n·¤.1830- States of A-merica, by their Commissioners, General John M’Niel, Colonel Pierre Menard, and Caleb Atwater, Es . for and on behalf of said States, of the one part, and the Nation of Winnebaygo Indians of the other part. ARTICLE I. Tim said Winnebaygo nation hereby, forever, eede and relinquish (3,,,,;,,;,,,,;, to the said United States, all their right, title, and claim, to the lands ceded to U. S. and country contained within the following limits and boundaries, to wit: beginning on Rock River, at the mouth of the Pee-kce-tau-no or Pee-hee-tol-a-ka, a branch thereof; thence, up the Pee-lcec-tol·a-ka, to the mouth of Sugar Creek; thence, up the said creek, to the source of the Eastern branch thereof; thence, by a line running due North, to the road leading from the Eastern blue mound, by the most Northern of the four lakes, to the portage of the Wisconsin and Fox rivers; thence, along the said road, to the crossing of Duck Creek; thence, by aline running in a direct course to the most Southeasterly bend of Lake Puck-a-way, on Fox River; thence, up said Lake and Fox River, to the portage of the Wisconsin; thence, across said portage, to the Wisconsin river; thence, down said river, to the Eastern line of the United States’ reservation at the mouth of said river, on the south side thereof, as described in the second article of the treaty made at St. Louis, on the twenty-fourth day of August, in the year eighteen hundred and sixteen, with the Chippewas, Ottawas, and Potawatamies; thence, with the lines of a tract of country on the Mississippi river, (secured to the Chippewas, Ottawas, and Potawatamies, of the Illinois, by the ninth Ame, p. 274. article of the treaty made at Prairie du Chien, on the nineteenth day of August, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-tive,) running Southwardly, passing the heads of the small streams emptying into the Mississippi to the Rock river, at the Winnebaygo village, forty miles above its mouth; thence, up Rock river, to the mouth of the Pee·lcectcl-a—ka river, the place of beginning. ARTICLE II. In consideration of the above cession, it is hereby stipulated, that the Consideration said United States shall pay to the said Winnebaygo nation of Indians *h°'°f°'· the sum of eighteen thousand dollars in specie, annually, for the period of thirty years; which said sum is to be paid to said Indians at Prairie du Chien and Fort Winnebaygo, in proportion to the numbers residing within the most convenient distance of each place, respectively; and it is also agreed, that the said United States shall deliver immediately to said Indians, as a present, thirty thousand dollars in goods; and it is further agreed, that three thousand pounds of tobacco, and fifty barrels of salt, shall be annually delivered to the said Indians by the United States, for the period of thirty years; half of which articles shall be delivered at the Agency at Prairie du Chien, and the other half at the Agency of Fort Winnebaygo. (323)