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TREATY WITH THE MIAMIES. 1840. 585 Te·moo-te-oh, Tuc-ke-mun-guagh, M3-qua-C0·DOHg', Bo-wa-wah • Mon-g0·sou, Signed in the presence of H. B. Milroy, Secretary. David Carrier. Geo. M. Maxwell. Robert H. Milroy. Peter Andre, Interpreter. To the Indian names are subjoiued marks. In SENATE or run UNITED S·rA·rns, February 25, 1841. Resolved (two-thirds of the Senators present concurring) That the Feb. 25, 1841. Senate advise and consent to the ratification of the treaty made and concluded at the Forks of the Wabash in the State of Indiana, the the Senate, astwenty-eigth day of November in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred ¤¤¥}'l¤€_*¤ W6 and forty, between Samuel Milroy and Allen Hamilton, acting as com- $:,,1, missioners on the part of the United States, and the chiefs warriers smsnamléhts. and headmen of the Miami tribe of Indians; with the following amendments; Provided, That the assent of the said Indians shall be properly ASB6m vt the obtained to the same—to wit: b° In the second article, strike out the words " two hundred and fifty," Amendments and insert three hundred; and, in the latter clause, strike out " three *°‘h° 2d *"l°l°- hundred," and insert two hundred antljifty. Add to the third article the following: 'I`wo hundred and fifty thou- Amendments sand dollars of the sum set apart in the second article of this treaty °°‘h°3d"·"~‘°l°· shall be applied to the payment of debts contracted before the twenty- eigth day of November, 1840; and the residue of said sum, after such debts are satisfied, being fifty thousand dollars, to the payment of debts contracted between the last-named date and the time of the ratification of this treaty by the Senate of the United States; giving the preference, in the application of said sum of fifty thousand dollars, to debts contracted for provisions and subsistence. In the seventh article, strike out the words "twenty second" and Amendments insert second. to 7th article. In the same article, at the first period, insert—to be held in trust by the said Me-shing-go-me-zia, for his band; and the proceeds thereof] when the same shall be alienated, shall be equitably distributed to said band, under the direction of the President. In article nine, strike out " two hundred and fifty" and insert three Amendments hundred; and strike out the whole of that article after the word to 9th article. " ascertained." Insert after article 11 an additional article; Article 12. The United Add;,,0,,,,;,,,._ States hereby stipulate to set apart and assign to the Miamies, for their ricle. occupancy west of the Mississippi, a tract of country bounded on the lboundanes of east by the State of Missouri, on the north by the country of the Weas ;d°t;“‘}$d*i;;‘§“‘ and Kaskaskias, on the west by the Pottawatomies of Indiana, and on ' the south by the land assigned to the New York Indians, estimated to contain five hundred thousand acres. Attest: ASBURY DICKINS, Secretary. VVe the undersigned chiefs headmen and warriors of the Miami tribe May 15, 1841. of Indians residing in the State of Indiana, do hereby give our free and Assam of the voluntary assent to the foregoing amendments, made by the Senate of Indians to the the United States on the 25th day of February last, to the treaty con- pggeggxegls ef eluded by us with the United States on the 28th day of November 1840; " ' 74