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 Firrvrinsr oorronmss. sm. 11. cu. 54s. 1891. 1019 Turkey, Chief, and five others, on the part of said Absentee Shawnee Indians, is also hereby accepted, ratified and confirmed, to wit: _ “Articles of agreement made and entered into at Shawnee Town in the Indian Territory, on the twenty-sixth da of June, eighteen hundred and nine§¤,`by and between David H. lerome, Warren G. Sayre and Alfred. ilson, Commissioners on the rt of the United States and the Absentee Shawnees residing on whaat is commonly known as the Pottawatomie Reservation in the Indian Territory, represented by their Chiefs and head men or Counselors whose names are hereto subscribed. Anricnm I. · Ammr. The Absentee Shawnee Indians of the Indian Territory in consid-  l" I"" eration of the fulnllment of the promises hereinafter made, hereby cede, relinquish and surrender, forever and absolutely, to the United States, all their claim, title and interest of every kind and character in and to the following described tract of country in the Indian Territoréy, accordingl to Morrill’s survey, under contract of September thir, eighteen undred and seventy-two—to-wit: ‘ Beginning at a D¤¤¤¤r¤¤¤- point on the right bank of the north fork of the Canadian River, in · section twenty-one, of townshi eleven north, range Eve east, where the western boundary line of the Seminole Reservation strikes said river; thence south with said boundary line to the left bank of the Canadian River; thence ulp said river, along the left bank thereof, to a point on said left ban in the northeast quarter of section thirty- six, township six north, range one west, thirty-nine chains and eighty- two links (by the meanders of the river west) from the point where the Indian meridian intersects said river, or thirty-eight chains and fifty-two links due west from said Indian meridian; thence north as run by O. T. Morrill, under his contract of Selptember third, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, to a ploint on the right bank of the north fork of the Canadian River; thence down saidg river, along the. right bank thereof, to place of beginning, comprising the following, viz: Fractional township nve north, ranges one, two, three, four, and five east, north of Canadian River. Fractional township six north, ranges one, three, four, and nve east, north of the Canadian River. Townshi six north, range two east. Townships seven, eight, and nine, ranges one, two, three, and four east. Fractional townships seven, eight, and nine north, range five east. Townships ten and eleven north, range one east. Fractionaltownshi ten north, ranges two, three and four east, south of the north fork of the Canadian River. Fractional township ten north, range five east. Fractional township eleven north, ranges two, three, four, and five east, south of the north fork of the Canadian River. Fractional townshipxtwelve north, ranges one and two east, south of the north fork of the Canadian River. Also that ortion of sections one, twelve, thirteen, twenty-four, and twenty-ligre, and section thirty-six, north of the Canadian River in township six north, range one west, lying east of the western boundary line of the said Pottawatomie Reservation as shown by the Morrill survey, and that portion of sections one, twelve, thirteen, twenty-four, twenty-five, an thirty-six, in townships seven, eight, nine, ten, and eleven north, range one west, lying east of the western boundary line aforesaid, and that portion of sections one and twelve south of the north fork of the Canadian River, and sections thirteen, twenty-four, twenty-five, and thirty-six in township twelve north, range one west, lying east of the western boundary line aforesaid containing an area of five hundred and seventy-five thousand eight hundred and seventy and forty-two one—hundredths acres of land.’