the United States on paying duties not exceeding the follo- 1831 wing rates on the gallon (such as is at present used in the United States), that is to say: six cents for red wine in casks, ten cents for white wine in casks, and twenty-two cents for wine of all sorts in bottles.

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Ordre du conseil de Sa Majesté Britannique déclarant Kingstown dans Isle de St. Vincent port franc, en date du 13 Juillet 1381.

(Morning Chronicle.)

At the Court at St. James, the 13th day of July, 1831; present the King's most excellent Majesty in Council.

Whereas by an Act, passed in the 6th year of His late Majesty's Reign, intituled,,An Act to regulate the Trade of the British Possessions Abroad", "it is, amongst other things, enacted, that certain Ports, therein particularly mentioned, in the Island of Jamaica, and in the Provinces of Nova Scotia, Canada, and New Brunswick; and in the Island of Barbadoes, shall be free Warehousing Ports for the purposes of the said Act; and it is further enacted, that it shall be lawful for His Majesty in Council, from time to lime, to appoint any Port in His Majesty's Possessions in America, to be a Free Warehousing Port for the purposes of the said Act; and that every such Port, so appointed by His Majesty, shall be a Free Warehousing Port under the said Act, as if appointed by the same, in as full and ample a manner in respects, as any of the Ports therein before mentioned are Free Warehousing Ports appointed by the said Act;

And whereas His Majesty doth deem it expedient, that the Port of Kingstown, in the Island of Saint Vincent, should be appointed a Free Warehousing Port for the purposes of the said Act, His Majesty

1831 doth therefore, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, and in pursuance and exercise of the powers in hin vested, in and by the said Act of Parliament, order and appoint, that the said Port of Kingstown, in the Island of Saint Vincent, shall be a Free Ware housing Port for the purposes of the said Act:

And the Right Honourable Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, and the Right Honourable Viscount Goderich, one of His Majesty's Principal Se cretaries of State, are to give the necessary directions herein as to them may respectively appertain.

C. C. GREVILLE,

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Traité entre les Etats-unis de l'Ame rique septentrionale et les tribus in diennes des Senecas et Shawnee, sign à Lewistown (Etat d'Ohio) le 20 Juil let 1831. (Ratifié par le Présiden

des Etats-unis le 6 Avril 1832.)

(Acts passed at the first session of the 22 Congress of the United States. Washington, 1832. ppendix p. 42).

Articles of Agreement and Convention, made and concluded at Lewistown, in the County of Logan and State of Ohio, on the 20th day of July, in the year of our Lord 1881, by and between Ja mes B. Gardiner specially appointed Commis sioner on the part of the United States, and John McElvain, Indian Agent for the Wyan dots, Senecas, and Shawnees, on the one part and the Undersigned, principal Chiefs and War riors of the Mixed Band of Senecas and Shawnee Indians residing at and around the said Lewis town, of the other part; for the cession of the Lands now owned and occupied by said Band,

lying on the waters of the Great Miami River, 1831 and within the Territorial Limits of the organized County of Logan, in said State of Ohio.

Whereas the President of the United States, under he authority of the Act of Congress, approved May 8th, 1830, has appointed a special Commissioner to onfer with the different Indian Tribes residing within he Constitutional Limits of the State of Ohio, and offer for their acceptance the Provisions [contained the before recited Act. And whereas the Mixed Band or Tribes of Senecas and Shawnee Indians, resding at and around Lewistown in said State, have xpressed their perfect assent to the conditions of said et and their willingness and anxiety to remove west the Mississippi river in order to obtain a more ermanent and advantageous home for themselves and eir posterity. Therefore, in order to carry into effect the oresaid objects, the following Articles have been greed upon by the aforesaid Contracting Parties; hich, when approved by the President and ratified the Senate of the United States, shall be mutually nding upon the United States and the said Seneca ad Shawnee Indians,

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ART. I. The Seneca and Shawnee Indians, residgat and around Lewistown in the State of Ohio, in onsideration of the Stipulations herein made on the art of the United States, do for ever cede, release quit claim to the United States, the lands granted them by patent in fee simple, by the 6th Article of e Treaty made at the foot of the rapids of the iami River of Lake Erie, on the 29th day of Sepmber in the year 1817, containing 48 square miles, nd described in said Treaty as follows: inning at the intersection of the Line run by harles Roberts in the year 1812, from the source the Scioto River, in pursuance of Instructions om the Commissioners appointed on the part of e United States to establish the western Bounary of the Virginia military reservation, with the ndian Boundary Line established by the Treaty of Greenville in 1795, from the crossings above Fort Lawrence to Loramie's Store, and to run, from such ntersection, northerly, with the first mentioned line,

1831 line, so as to include the quantity as nearly in a square from as practicable, after excluding the section of land granted to Nancy Stewart.” An the said Senecas and Shawnees also cede to the United States, in manner aforesaid, one other tract of land, reserv ed for them by the 2nd Article of the Treaty made at St. Mary's, in Ohio, on the 17th of September, i the year 1818, which tract is described in said Treaty as follows:,,8960 acres, to be laid off adjoining the west line of the reserve of 48 square miles at Le wistown."

ART. II. In consideration of the cessions stipu lated in the foregoing Article, the United States agree to cause the said Band of Senecas and Shawnees, con sisting of about 300 souls, to be removed in a con venient and suitable manner to the western side of the Mississippi River, and will grant by patent, in fe simple, to them and their heirs for ever, as long they shall exist as a Nation and remain on the same a tract of land to contain 60,000 acres, to be located under the direction of the President of the United Sta tes, contiguous to the lands granted to the Senecas of Sandusky, by the Treaty made with them at the City of Washington, on the 28th of February, 1831 and the Cherokee Settlements; — the east line of said tract shall be within 2 miles of the west line of the lands granted to the Senecas of Sandusky, and the south line shall be within 2 miles of the north line of the lands held by the Cherokees — and said 2n les between the aforesaid lines, shall serve as a common passway between the beforé mentioned Tribes, to prevent them from intruding upon the lands of each other.

ART. III. The United States will defray the ex pense of the removal of the said Senecas and Shawnees and will moreover supply them with a sufficiency good and wholesome provisions to support them for 1 year after their arrival at their new residence.

ART. IV. Out of the first sales to be made of the lands herein ceded by the said Senecas and Shaw nees, the United States will cause a sawmill and blacksmith's shop to be erected on the lands granted to the said Indians west of the Mississippi, with all necessary machinery and tools, to be supported and

kept in operation at the expense of the United States, 1831 for the mutual and sole benefit of the said Senecas and Shawnees, and the United States will employ a blacksmith to execute the necessary work for the said Indians, for such time as the President of the. United States, in his discretion, may think proper.

ART. V. In lieu of the improvements which have been made on the lands herein ceded; it is agreed that the United States shall advance to the said Senecas and Shawnees the sum of 6,000 dollars, to be reimbursed from the sales of the lands herein ceded by them to the United States. A fair and equitable distribution of this sum shall be made by the Chiefs of the said Senecas and Shawnees, with the consent of their Tribes in General Council assembled, to such Individuals of the Tribes as, having left improvements, may be properly entitled to the same.

ART. VI. The live stock, farming utensils, and other chattel property, which the said Senecas and Shawnees now own, and may not be able to carry with them, shall be sold under the superintendence of some suitable Person appointed by the Secretary of War, and the proceeds paid over to owners of such property respectively.

ART. VII. The said Senecas and Shawnees shall be removed to their new residence under the care and protection of some competent and proper Person friendly to them and acquainted with their habits, manners and customs; and the Chiefs of the said Tribes shall have the privilege of nominating such Person to the President, who, if approved of by him, shall have charge of their conveyance.

ART. VIII. The United States will expose to public sale to the highest bidders, in the manner of selling the Public Lands, the tracts of land herein ceded by the Senecas and Shawnees; and, after deducting from the proceeds of such sale the sum of 70 cents per acre, exclusive of the cost of surveying the lands, the cost of the saw mill and blacksmith's shop, and the sum of 6,000 dollars to be advanced in lieu of the improvements on the ceded lands, it is agreed, that any balance which may remain of the lands, after sale as aforesaid, shall constitute a fund for the future necessities of said Tribes, on which the Govern