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TREATY WITH THE MIAMIES. 1834. 463 And whereas the said treaty with explanatory documents from the Department of War, having been submitted to the Senate for its advice in regard to the ratification of the original treaty, with the amendments proposed by the Secretary of War, the treaty, with the amendments, in the event of its ratification by the United State , to be again submitted to the Chiefs and Warriors of the Miami tribes for their sanction or rejection, the Senate did on the twelfth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, resolve as follows, viz : ` IN SENATE or- urn Uurrmn Srarns, Oet.12, 1837. October 12th, 1837. Resolved, (two-thirds of the Senators present concurring,) That the The Senate Senate do advise and consent to the ratification of the treaty between °°QS*=¤*,*° th? the United States of America and the Miami tribe of Indians, concluded {f;QE§,‘H::‘;,:°‘u‘ at the Forks of the Wabash, in the State of Indiana, on the twenty-third amendment? day of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four ; with the following amendment; Provided, that the Chiefs and Warriors of the Proviso. said tribe, shall in General Council, as on the occasion of concluding the aforesaid treaty, agree to and sign the same: Attest, ASBURY DICKINS, Secretary. amnunmnnr. Strike out the whole of said treaty after the title and insert the following in lieu thereof: ARTICLES OF A TREATY Between the United States and the Marni tribe of Indians, concluded 0,,;,23, ig34_ at the Forks of the Wabash, in the State of Indiana, on the 23d day ‘ qfOctober, 1834, by and between William Marshall, commissioner Dm 22, 1831: of the United States, and the chiefs and warriors of said tribe. Iltlssem: <1r§ gpc D IBHS, .` Aarrcrn 1. The Miami tribe of Indians agree to cede to the United m- 18373 States the following described tracts of land within the State of Indiana, c;5};°,,§;"}mg’w_ being a part of reservations made to said tribe from former cessions, ingrrgcrg gf now conveyed for and in consideration of the payments stipulated to be l¤¤d· made to them in the 2d article of this treaty of cession. One tract of land, thirty-six sections, at Flat BelIy’s village, a reserve Ante, P, 300, made by the treaty of Wabash of 18*26. Also, one tract of land, about twenty-three thousand acres more or less, a reserve made at Wabash treaty in 1826, of live miles in length on the Wabash river, extending back to Eel river. Also, one other tract of ten sections at Racoon village, and a tract of ten sections at Mudd creek on Eel river, reserves made at Wabash treaty of 1826. Also, one reserve of two miles square on the Salamany river at the Ante, p. 189. mouth of At-che-pong-quaw creek, reserve made at the treaty of St. Mary’s of 1818. Also, one other tract being a portion of the ten mile square reserve, made at the treaty of St. Mary’s of 1818, opposite the mouth of the river Aboutte, commencing at the northeast corner of said reserve, thence south with the eastern boundary of the same ten miles to the southeast corner of the reserve, thence west with the southern boundary one mile, thence north nine miles, thence west nine miles, thence north one mile to the northwest corner of said reserve, thence to the place of beginning.