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TREATY WITH THE KICKAPOOS. 1832. 393 An·rrcr.n XIII. The said Indians agree to remove with as little delay Removal of mg possible, to the land hereby ceded to them, Indians. Anrrcnn XIV. The United States agree, at the particular request of Exploring the Kiekapoos, that a deputaticn of their tribe shall be sent, with one wry- or two of the commissioners, to view the lands hereby ceded to them, which deputation and commissioners jointly agreeing, shall have power to alter the boundary lines so as to make a selection of a body of land not exceeding twelve hundred square miles, adjoining to, and lying between the Big Nemaha river and the Delaware lands, and of changing the lines of the land hereby ceded in the second article of this treaty, not exceeding half the front on the Missouri between the mouth of Big Nemaha and Fort Leavenworth, so as to include a suitable scite for a mill seat, should it be desired by aid tribe and appear necessary to the commissioners. And it is understood, that if the commissioners, on viewing the.land ceded in the second article of this treaty, shall find it of good quality, and sufficient for said tribe, then the aforesaid second article to be as binding on the contracting parties, as if this article had not been inserted. Aarxcnm XV. This treaty to be binding when ratified by the Presi- Treaty binding dent and Senate of the United States. “'l‘°” “”£°d· In testimony whereof, the Commissioners aforesaid, and the undersigned Chiefs, Warriors and Counsellors as aforesaid, have hereunto subscribed their hands and aflixed their seals, this twenty- fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty-two, and of the Independence of the United States the fifty-seventh. WM. CLARK, FRANK J. ALLEN, NATHAN KOUNS. Pa-sha-cha-hah, Jumping Fish, Ata-noi-tucka, Gobling turkey, Ka-ana-kuck-ah, the Prophet, Kish-coe, Guardian to Indians, Pemo-quoi-ga, Rolling Thunder, Ka-te·wah, Bald Eagle, Pa-ana-wah-ha, Elk shedding his hair, Na-poi-teck, Son of Prophet, Kick-a-poo·hor, Kickapoo, N a-na-co-wah, the Bear, Muhe-nah, Elk, Pe-sha.-ka-nah, the Bear, Ma.cuta-we.she.kah, Black Fisher, Ah-nuck-quet-ta, the Cloud, or black Wahazo-haw, Grey Fox, thunder, Pah-ta-knli-quoi, Striking Woman, Note-ta-noi, Wind, Kitch-emah-quoi, Big Bear, Ma-outta-mah-qui, Black Loon. Signed in presence of James Kennerly, Secretary. Meriwether Lewis Clarke, Lt. 6th Infantry. Geo. Maguire, Indian Dept. A. Shane, U. S. Interpreter. William Marshall. Jacques Mette, U. S. Interpreter. Pierre Cadue, Interpreter. To the Indian names are snbjoined n mark and ned. SUPPLEMENTAL ARTICLE To the treaty with the Kickapoo tribe of Indians, of Ithe twentygfourth Nov, 5, r33g, October, one thousand eight hundred and thtrty-two. j"" The undersigned, commissioners on the part of the United States, Bmdmu and a deputation of Kickapoos, on the part of the Kickapoo tribe of tired by com- Indians, having visited the lands assigned to the said tribe by the second g;¤;:g¤;§’r:¤¤d article of a treaty with the said tribe, concluded at Castor Hill, in the ’ county of Saint Louis, and State of Missouri, on the twenty-fourth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and by autho- 50