1831 ment of the United States agree and consent to pay to the Chiefs, for the use and general benefit of the said Tribes annually, 5 per cent. on the amount of the said balance, as an annuity; said fund to be continued during the pleasure of Congress, unless the Chiefs of the said Tribes, by and with the consent of the whole of their People in General Council assembled should desire that the fund thus to be created should be dissolved and paid over to them, in which case the President shall cause the same to be paid over, if in his discretion he shall think the happiness and pros perity of said Tribes would be promoted thereby.

ART. IX. It is agreed, that any annuities accruing to the said Senecas and Shawnees by former Trea ties, shall be paid to them at their intended residence. west of the Mississippi, under the direction of the President,

ART. X. In consideration of the former good con duct and friendly disposition of the aforesaid Band of Senecas and Shawnees towards the American Government, and as an earnest of the kind feelings and good wishes of their great Father for the future welfare and happiness of themselves and their posterity, it is agreed that the United States will give them as presents, the following articles, to wit: 100 blankets, 20 ploughs, 100 hoes, 50 axes, 10 rifles, 20 sets of horse gears, and Russia sheeting sufficient to make 40 tents; the whole to be delivered to them as soon as practicable after their arrival at their new residence, except, the blankets and the Russia sheeting for the tents, which shall be given at the time of their setting out on their journey; all of said articles to be distributed by the Chiefs, according to the just claims and necessities of their People.

ART. XI. The lands granted by this Agreement and Convention to the said Band of Senecas and Shawnees, shall not be sold or ceded by them except to the United States. And the United States guarantee that said lands shall never be within the bounds of any State or Terri tory, nor subject to the Laws thereof; and further, that the President of the United States will cause said Tribes to be protected at their new residence against all interruption or disturbance from any other Tribe or Nation of Indians, or from any other Person or Per

sons whatever; and he shall have the same care and 1831 superintendence over them in the Country to which they design to remove, that he has heretofore had over them at their present place of residence.

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ART. XII. At the request of the Chiefs of the Seecas and Shawnees, there is granted to James M‘Pheron, one half section of land to contain 320 acres, e laid off in such part of the lands here ceded as e may select, so that the said half section shall adoin the land heretofore donated to him near the southast corner of that part of the lands herein ceded, which was assigned to the Shawnees by the 2nd Article of the Treaty made at St. Mary's, on the 17th of September, 1818. And this grant is made in consideration of the sincere attachment of the said Chiefs nd their People for the said James McPherson, who as lived among them and near them for 40 years, nd from whom they have received numerous and vauable services and benefits; and also in consideration of the able and candid manner in which he has explained to the Indians the policy of the United States, regard to the future welfare and permanent settlenent of the Indian Tribes.

ART. XIII. At the request of the aforesaid Chiefs, here is hereby granted to Henry H. McPherson, an adopted son of their Nation, a half section of land, to contain 320 acres, to be added to a half section of land granted to him by the said Chiefs on the 20th day of March 1821, and approved by the President of the United States, which is to be so laid off as to enlarge the last mentioned grant to a square section.

ART. XIV. At the special request of the aforesaid Chiefs, one quarter section of land, to contain 160 acres, is hereby granted to Martin Lane their Interpreter, who married a quarter blood Indian woman, and has lived a long time among the Senecas. The said quarter section is to be located under the direction of the President of the United States.

ART. XV. It is understood and agreed by the present Contracting Parties that the words,,,the lands heretofore donated to him" in the 12th Article of this Treaty, have direct and sole reference to a verbal donation heretofore made by the said Senecas Shawnees, to the said M'Pherson, and that the intention is,

1831 that this Treaty should confirm the former as well as the latter grant, so that the said M'Pherson is entitled to one whole section, to be located in the southeast corner of the Shawnee part of the lands herein ceded as aforesaid.

In testimony hereof, the present Contracting Par ties respectively have signed their Hands, and affixed their Seals the day and year aforesaid, at Pleasant Plains near Lewistown in the State of Ohio.

[Marks of 13 Indians.]

Signed, sealed, and delivered in presence of etc

etc. etc.

I do hereby certify, that each and every Article of the foregoing Convention and Agreement, was ca refully explained and fully interpreted by me to the Chiefs, Head Men, and Warriors who have signed the same.

MARTIN LANE, United States' Interpreter

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Ordre du conseil de Sa Majesté Bri tannique, déclarant Basseterre dans l'Isle de St. Christoph port franc, en date du 27 Juillet 1831.

(Publication officielle de l'Amirauté). At the court at St. James, the 27th day of July, 1831; present the King's most excellent Majesty

council.

Whereas by an Act, passed in the 6th Year of His late Majesty's Reign, intituled,,An Act to regu late the Trade of the British Possessions Abroad," i 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

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the said Act; and it is further enacted, that it shall 1831 be lawful for His Majesty in Council, from time to time, 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 all respects as any of the Ports thereinbefore mentioned are Free Warehousing Ports appointed by the said Act.

And whereas His Majesty doth deem it expedient, that the Port of Basseterre, in the Island of St. Christopher, should be appointed a Free Warehousing Port for the purposes of the said Act, His Majesty doth, therefore, by and with the advice, of his Privy Council, and in pursuance and exercise of the powers n him vested, in and by the said Act of Parliament, rder and appoint, that the said Port of Basseterre, n the Island of St. Christopher, shall be a Free Warehousing Port for the purposes of the said Act.

And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, and the Right Honourable Viscount Goderich, one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries 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'Amérique septentrionale et la tribu indienne des Shawnee, signé à Wapaghkonnetta le 8 Août 1831. (Ratifié par le président des Etats-unis le 6 Avril 1832.)

(Acts passed at the first session of the 22 Session of Congress of the United States. Washington, 1832. Appendix p. 48.)

Articles of Agreement and Convention, made and concluded at Wapaglikonnetta, in the county of

1831 Allen and State of Ohio, on the 8th day of Au gust in the Year of our Lord 1831, by and between James B. Gardiner, specially appointed Commissioner on the part of the United Sta tes, and John M'Elvain, Indian Agent for the Wyandots, Senecas and Shawnees residing in the State of Ohio, on the one part, and the undersigned, principal Chiefs, Headmen and Warriors of the Tribe of Shawnee Indians re siding at Wapaghkonnetta and Hog Creek within the Territorial limits of the organized county of Allen, in the State of Ohio.

Whereas the President of the United States,, under the authority of the Act of Congress, approved May 28th, 1830, has appointed a Special Commissioner to confer with the different Indian Tribes residing within the Constitutional limits of the State of Ohio, and to offer for their acceptance the Provisions of the before recited Act: And whereas the Tribe or Band of Shawnee Indians residing at Wapaghkonnetta and on Hog Creek in the said State, have expressed their perfect assent to the conditions of the said Act, and their willingness and anxiety to remove west of the Mississippi River, in order to obtain a more perma nent and advantageous home for themselves and their posterity. Therefore, in order to carry into effect the aforesaid objects, the following Articles of Convention have been agreed upon by the aforesaid Con tracting Parties, which, when ratified by the Presi dent of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, shall be mutually binding upon the United States, and the said Shawnee Indians.

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ART. I. The Tribe or Band of Shawnee Indians residing at Wapaghkonnetta and on Hog Creek in the State of Ohio, in consideration of the Stipulations herein made, on the part of the United States, do for ever cede, release and quit claim to the United States, the lands granted to them by patent in fee simple, by the 6th Section of the Treaty made at the foot of the rapids of the Miami River of Lake Erie, on the 29th day of September, in the year of our Lord 1817, containing 125 sections or square miles, and granted in 2 reservations, and described in the

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