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ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT AND CONVENTION, Made and concluded at Wapaghkonnettonin the countyof Allen and Aus- 8. 1831. State ry" Ohio on the Sth day of August in the year of our Lord Proclamation, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, by and between APY1U;- 1832- James B. Gardiner specially appointed commissioner on the part oi' the United States and John ]lIcElvain, Indian Agent for t e Wyandots, Senecas and Shawnees residing in the State of Ohio, on the one part, and the undersigned, principal Chiefs, Headmen and Warriors ¢y" the tribe of Shawnee Indians residing at Wapaghkonnetta and Hog Creek, within the territorial emits of the organized county of Allen, in the State of Ohio. Wumnnas the President of the United States under the authority of the Act of Congress, approved May 28, 1830, has appointed a special 1830 Cb_ M8_ commissioner to confer with the different Indian tribes residing within i the constitutional limits of the State of Ohio, and to offer for their acceptance the provisions of the before recited act :-And whereas the tribe or band of Shawnee Indians residing at Wapaghkonnetta and on Hog Creek in the said State, have expressed their perfect assent to the conditions of the said act, and their willingness and anxiety to remove west of the Mississippi river, in order to obtain a more permanent and advantageous home for themselves and their posterity. Therefore, in order to carry into eifect the aforesaid objects, the following articles of Convention have been agreed upon by the aforesaid contracting parties, which, when ratified by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, shall be mutually binding upon the United States and the aid Shawnee Indians. Aivrrcts I. The tribe or band of Shawnee Indians residing at Wa- Cession of paghkonnetta and on Hog Creek in the State of Ohio, in consideration 181168 10 U- S· of the stipulations herein made, on the part of the United States, do for ever cede, release and quit claim to the United States the lands granted to them by patent in fee simple by the sixth section of the treaty made at the foot of the Rapids of the Miami river of Lake Erie on the 29th Am,,,P_150_ day of September in the year of our Lord 1817, containing one hundred and twenty-five sections or square miles, and granted in two reservations and described in the said sixth section of the aforesaid treaty as follows: —"A tract of land ten miles square, the centre of which shall be the council house at Wapaghkonnettaf and “a tract of land containing twenty-five square miles, which is to join the tract granted at Wapaghkonnetta, and to include the Shawnee settlement on Hog creek, and to he laid off as nearly as possible in a square form," which said two tracts or reservations of land were granted as aforesaid to the said Shawnee Indians by the patents signed by the Commissioner of the General Land Oflice and certified by the Secretary of War dated the 20th day of April 1821. Also, one other tract of land, granted to the said Shawnees by the Second article of the treaty made at St. Mary’s in the state of Ohio, Am,) ,,_ u8_ on the 17th day of September in the year 1818, and described therein as follows: “Twelve thousand eight hundred acres_0f land to be laid off adjoining the east line of their reserve of ten miles square at Wap¤ghk0nnetta," making in the whole of the aforesaid cessions to the (355)