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84 C. F. COAN

R. Shortess

Acting Sub Agent

At the signing of the above articles of this Treaty it was agreed, that upon the ratification of the same, by the President and Senate, Sku-mah-queah should receive a rifle, worth Fifty Dollars, as a present.

TREATY WITH KONNAACK BAND

Treaty at Tansey Point, near Clatsop Plains, between Anson Dart, Supt. Indian Affairs and others on the part of the United States and the Chiefs & Headmen of the Kon-naack Band of the Chinook Tribe of Indians.

Articles of a Treaty made and concluded! at Tansey Point near Clatsop Plains, this Eighth day of August Eighteen Hun- dred and Fifty one, between Anson Dart Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Henry H. Spaulding Indian Agent and Josiah L. Parish Sub Indian Agent, on the part of the United States, of the one part ; and the undersigned Chiefs and Headmen of the Konnaack Band, of the Chinook tribe of Indians of the other part. Article ist.

The said Konnaack Band, hereby cede to the United States, the tract of land included within the following boundaries viz :

Beginning at the mouth of the Neuc-tuc-hae-Creek, on the North Side of the Columbia River, and running thence up and along the said river to the mouth of the first stream that enters the Columbia above the Cowlitz river, thence up the Cowlitz and following the highland parallel with said river to what is called the Fooshop; thence west to the North East bounds of lands lately claimed by the Waukikum Band of the Chinooks ; thence southerly following the eastern boundary of said lands of the Waukikum Band, to the place of beginning. Also the tract of land described as follows, to wit i