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 TREATY WITH THE STOCKBRIDGES AND MUNSEES. Fnn. 1856. 675 or unjust to any one of them. A power of attorney of the Munsees of New York to their delegate is herewith enclosed. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, FRANCIS HUEBSCHMANN, Superintendent. Hon. Gnonen W. Marrrrnunr, Uommissioner of Indian Ayfairs, Washington, D. (X Know all men that by these presents we make, constitute, and appoint Isaac Durkee, William Mohawk, and Joshua Willson, or either two of them, in the absence of the other, to receive from the commissioner of the United States the share of us, and each of us, and our families in money, which, in consideration of annuities due us from the United States, or by virtue and effect of a treaty which it is understood, is about to be made between the United States and the Stockbridge and Munsee tribes of Indians, we are informed will be our due, and will be paid to us by the said commissioner, or by the superintendent of Indian affairs for Wisconsin. And we hereby authorize our attorneys as aforesaid to give receipts and vouchers to the said commissioner or superintendent, as may be right, or he may require; our intention being that our said attorneys shall transmit to us, in the State of New York, said moneys, to enable us immediately to remove to, improve, and subsist in our new homes in the State of Wisconsin. Hereby ratifying the acts of our attorneys in the premises. In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals, this -—— day of January, A. D. 1856. ISAAC DURKEE, WILLIAM MOHAWK, TITUS MOHAWK, his x mark. AUSTIN HALF WHITE, his x mark. CLARISSA SPRAGG, her x mark. GEORGE MOSES, his x mark. JONATHAN WATERMAN, his x mark. JONATHAN TITUS, his x mark. LEVY HALF TOWN, his x mark. JEFFERSON HALF TOWN, his x mark. In presence of SAM’L W. BEALL, J 0n1w Anusrnoue. Sryrn or New Yonx, Oattamugus County, “' On this 19th day of January, A, D. 1856, came before me Isaac Durkee, William Mohawk, Titus Mohawk, Austin Half White, Clarissa Spragg» George Moses, Jonathan Watersnake, Jonathan Titus, Levy Half Town, Jefferson Half Town, proven to me, by the oath of George Jamison, to me well known, to be the individuals who signed and executed the within instrument of attorney, and acknowledged that they executed it freely. GEORGE JAMISON, his x mark. Swom and subscribed before me, this 19th day of January, 1856. ELISHA BROWN, Justice of the Peace. And whereas the said treaty having been submitted to the Senate of the United States for its constitutional action thereon, the Senate did, on the eighteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, advise and