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 TREATY WITH THE WYANDOTT INDIANS. MARCH 17. 1842. ~58l Treaty between the Matted States of America and the Wyandott Nation of Indians? JOHN TYLER, mmu1v,1s4¤. PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ro Am. Ann smeurnn ·ro wnom THESE rnnsmrrs su.u.L coms, ennnrmez WHEREAS, a treaty was made and concluded at Upper Sandusky, Crawford county, Ohio, on the seventeenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, between John Johnston, commissioner on the part of the United States, and the chiefs, counsellors, and headmen of the Wyandott nation of Indians, in iiill council assembled, on the other part: And whereas said treaty having been submitted to the Senate for its Preamble. constitutional action thereon, the Senate did, on the seventeenth day of August one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, advise and consent to the ratification of Said treaty with certain amendments : And whereas, the said Indians did, by their chiefs and counsellors, in fiill council assembled, on the sixteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, give their free and voluntary assent to the amendments made by the Senate in the resolution aforesaid ; which treaty, resolution of the Senate making the amendments to said treaty, and the assent of the Indians to said amendments, are in the words following, to wit: JOHN TYLER, President of the United States of America, by Negotiators. John Johnston, formerly Agent for Indian Affairs, now a citizen of the State of Ohio, commissioner duly authorized and appointed to treat with the Wyandott nation of Indians for a cession of all their lands lying and being within the States of Ohio and Michigan; and the duly constituted chiefs, counsellors, and headmen of the said Wyandott nation, in Hill. council assembled, on the other part; have entered into the following articles and conditions, viz: ARTICLE I. The Wyandott nation of Indians do hereby cede to the Cgsgion gf United States all that tract of land situate lying and being in the county lends W *110 U- S- of Crawford and State of Ohio, commonly known as the residue of the large Reserve, being all of their remaining lands within the State of Ohio, and containing one hundred and nine thousand one hundred and forty- four acres, more or less. The said nation also hereby codes to the United States all their right and title to the Wyandott Reserve on both sides of the River Huron, in the State of Michigan, containing four thousand nine hundred and ninety-six acres, be the same more or less, being all the remaining lands claimed or set apart for the use of the Wyandotts within the State of Michigan; and the United States hereby promises to pay the sum of five hundred dollars towards the expenses of removing the Indians of the River Huron to Upper Sandusky, but before the latter clause of this article is binding on the contracting parties, the consent of the headmen of the River Huron Wyandotte is to be had in writing. ARTICLE II. In consideration of the foregoing cession, the United States 6,.,,,,,, by ,,,6 hereby grant to the aforesaid Wyandott nation, a tract of land west of the U. S. to the Wy- Mississippi River, [in a square or oblong form, as the chiefs of said nation ‘“d°g" _ may prefer,] to contain one hundred and forty-eight thousand acres, and to mickggt 0;*; gg be located upon any lands owned by the United States, now set apart, or theamendment. Post, p. 584. dated February 9, 1859.
 * Published in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the United States,