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ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT AND CONVENTION Made and concluded this thirtieth day of August, in the year of Aug. so, 1831. our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, by and between James B. Gardiner, specially appointed commissioner APU16a 1832- i on the part of the United States, on the one part, and the chiefs, head men and warriors of the band of Ottoway Indians residing within the State of Ohio on the other part, for a cession of the several tracts of land now held and occupied by said Indians within said State, by reservations made under the treaty concluded at Detroit on the 17th day of November, 1807, and the treaty made at the foot of the Rapids of the Mami river of Lake Erie, on the 29th of September, 1817. Wnmtnas the President of the United States, under the authority of the act of Congress, approved May 28, 1830, has appointed a special 1830 6h_14g_ 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 mentioned act: And whereas the band of Ottoways residing on Blanchard’s fork of the Great Auglaize river, and on the Little Auglaize river at Oquanoxie’s village, have expressed their consent to the conditions of said act, and their willingness to remove west of the Mississippi, in order to obtain a more permanent and advantageous home for themselves and their posterity: Therefore, in order to carry into effect 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 consent of the Senate thereof; shall be mutually binding upon the United States and the aforesaid band of Ottoway Indians. Arvricna I. The band of Ottoway Indians, residing on Blanchard’s Cessivn Wand fork of the Great Auglaize river, and at Oquanoxa’s village on the Little :g“g‘§d§’a*;]g" Auglaize river, in consideration of the stipulations herein made on the ` part of the United States, do forever cede, release and quit claim to the United States, the lands reserved to them by the last clause of the sixth article of the treaty made at the foot of the Rapids of the Miami of the Ame ,60 Lake on the 29th of September, 1817; which clause is in the following ’ p` ' words: “There shall be reserved for the use of the Ottoway Indians, but not granted to them, a tract of land on Blanchard’s fork of the Great Auglaize river, to contain five miles square, the centre of which tract is to be where the old trace crosses the said fork; and one other tract, to contain three miles square on the Little Auglaize river, to include Oquan0xa’s village," making in said eession twenty-one thousand seven hundred and sixty acres. Arvrrcnn II. The chiefs, head men and warriors of the band of Otto- Cession hy e way Indians, residing at and near the places called Roche de Boezf and g?£é"gf°8§;_ Wolf rapids, on the Miami river of Lake Erie, and within the State of wu Ohio, wishing to become parties to this convention, and not being willing, at this time, to stipulate for their removal west of the Mississippi; do hereby agree, in consideration of the stipulations herein made for them on the part of the United States, to cede, release and forever quit claim to the United States the following tracts of land, reserved to them t35E!)