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370 TREATY WITH THE WINNEBAGOES. 1832. removal shall be defrayed by the United States, and such subsistence shall also be furnished them for a term not exceeding twelve (12) months, after their arrival at their new residence; as in the opinion of the President, their numbers and circumstances may require, the emigration to commence as early as practicable in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-three (1833,) and with those Indians at present occupying the Big swamp, and other parts of the country beyond the limits as defined in the second article of the treaty concluded at Camp Moultrie creek, so that the whole of that proportion of the Seminoles may be removed within the year aforesaid, and the remainder of the tribe, in about equal proportions, during the subsequent years of eighteen hundred and thirty- four and five, (1834 and 1835.)-- In testimony whereof, the commissioner James Gadsden and the undersigned chiefs and head—men of the Seminole Indians, have hereunto subscribed their names and affixed their seals——Done at Camp at Payne’s landing on the Ocklewaha river in the Territory of Florida on this ninth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and of the Independence of the United States of America the fifty-sixth. JAMES GADSDEN, (L. s.) Holati Emartla, Tokose-Emartla, or Jno. Hicks, Jumper, Cat.sha-Tusta-nuck·i, Fuck-ta·lus·ta Hadjo, Hola-at-a—Meco, Charley Emartla, Hitch-it-i-Meco, Coa. Hadjo, E-ne·hah, Ar-pi·uck-i, or Sam Jones, Ya-ha-emartla Chup-ko, Ya»ha Hadjo, Mokefhis-she·lar-ni. Meco-Noha, Wrrzzsssrs :—-Douglas Vass, Secretary to Commission. John Phagan, Agent. Stephen Richards, Inpt. Abraham, Interpreter. Cudjo, Interpreter. Erastus Rogers. B. Joscan T0 the Indian names are subjoined marks. ARTICLES OF A TREATY S,,,,,_15,m?_ Made and concluded, at Fort Armstrong, Rock Island, Ulinois,

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F€b_ I3_ m§l’ Mayor General Wzn_field Scott tj` the United States’ Army, and his Excellency John Reynolds, Governor of the State of Illinois, and the I/Wnnebago nation of Indians, represented in general Council by the undersigned Chiefs, Headmen, and Warriors. Cession ,0 the Aivrrenn I. The Winnebago nation hereby cede to the United States, United Smeg, forever, all the lands, to which said nation have title or claim, lying to the south and east of the Wisconsin river, and the Fox river of Green Bay; bounded as follows, viz : beginning at the mouth of the Pee-keetol a-ka river; thence up Rock river to its source; thence, with a line dividing the Winnebago nation from other Indians east of the Winnebago lake, to the Grande Chute; thence, up Fox river to the IVinnebago lake, and with the northwestern shore of said lake, to the inlet of Fox river; thence, up said river to lake Puckaway, and with the eastern shore of the same to its most southeasterly bend; thence with the line of a purchase made of the Winnebago nation, by the treaty at Prairie