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 TREATY WITH THE TONAWAN DA. SENECAS. N 0V. 5, 1857. 991 Treaty between the United States and the Tonawanda Band of Seneca SBE, V0, · Indians, Ooncluded at the meeting-house on the Tonawanda Reservation, 735, note. I xl. P. November 5, 1857. Supplementary Articles, Ooncluded at the same time and place. Ratified by the Senate, June 4, 1858. Proclaimed by the President of the United States, March 31, 1859. JAMES BUCHANAN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, TO ALL AND SINGULAR TO Wn0M THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, c.nEET1Nc.: Nov. 5, 1857. WHEREAS, a treaty was made and concluded at the meeting—house, on Preamble. the Tonawanda reservation, in the county of Genesee, and State of New York, on the fifth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and fifty- seven, by Charles E. Mix, as commissioner on behalf of the United States, and the following persons, viz.: Jabez Ground, Jesse Spring, Isaac Shanks, George Sky, and Ely S. Parker, duly authorized thereunto by the Tonawanda band of Seneca Indians, which treaty is in the following words, to wit : Articles of agreement and convention made this fifth day of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, at the meetinghouse on the Tonawanda reservation, in the county of Genesee and State _ of New York, between Charles E. Mix, commissioner on behalf of the mgg;‘“'“°*’“g United States, and the following persons, duly authorized thereunto by the p ` Tonawanda band of Seneca Indians, viz.: Jabez Ground, Jesse Spring, Isaac Shanks, George Sky, and Ely S. Parker. Whereas a certain treaty was heretofore made between the Six Nations _Former Treaof New York Indians and the United States on the 15th day of January, Qi; vi, 550 1838, and another·between the Seneca nation of Indians and the United 55-;:pp` ’ States on the 20th day of May, 1842, by which, among other things, the Vol- vii- P- 586- Seneca nation of Indians granted and conveyed to Thomas Ludlow Ogden and Joseph Fellows the two certain Indian reservations in the State of New York known as the Buffalo Creek and the Tonawanda reservations, to be surrendered to the said Ogden and Fellows, on the performance of certain conditions precedent defined in said treaties; and WVhereas in and by the said treaties there were surrendered and relin- T Tegms Gf ¤=‘-id quished to the United States 500,000 acres of land in the then Territory ml ms' of lVisconsin; and Whereas the United States, in and by said treat.ies, agreed to set apart for said Indians certain lands in the Indian territory immediately west of Missouri, and to grant the same to them, to be held and enjoyed in feesimple, the quantity of said lands being computed to afford 320 acres to each soul of said Indians, and did agree that any individual, or any number of said Indians, might remove to said territory, and thereupon be entitled to hold and enjoy said lands, and all the benefits of said treaties, according to numbers, respectively; and Whereas the United States did further agree to pay the sum of $400,000 for the removal of the Indians of New York to the said territory, and for their support and assistance during the first year of their residence in said territory; and _ Whereas the said Ogden and Fellows did agree to pay to the said