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 ARTICLES OF A TREATY Made and concluded at St. Mary’s, in the state rj` Ohio, between Oct. 2, 1818. Jonathan Jennings, Lewis Cass, and Benjamin Parke, com- pm,,,,,,,,,,,,,, missioners of the United States, and the Potawatamie nation Jan- 15. 1819· of Indians. Ama 1. The Potawatamie nation of Indians cede to the United States Cgggigng of all the country comprehended within the following limits: Beginning at land by the Potthe mouth of the Tippecanoe river, and running up the same to a point ““”‘*“““°S· twenty-tive miles in a direct line from the Wabash river-—thence, on a line as nearly parallel to the general course of the Wabash river as practicable, to a point on the Vermilion river, twenty-five miles from the Wabasli river; thence, down the Vermilion river to its mouth, and thence, up the Wabash river, to the place of beginning. The Potawatamies also cede to the United States all their claim to the country south of the Wabash river. Am. 2. The United States agree to purchase any just claim which U. S. agree to the Kickapoos may have to any part of the country hereby ceded below p‘“°h“s? K‘°k‘ Pine creek. apoc claim' Amr. 3. The United States agree to pay to the Potawatamies a per~ p,,,,,,,,,; anpetual annuity of two thousand five hundred dollars in silver; one half nuity to Pottaof which shall be paid at Detroit, and the other half at Chicago; and w"“‘m‘°”* all annuities which, by any former treaty, the United States have engaged to pay to the Potawatamies, shall be hereafter paid in silver. ART. 4. The United States agree to grant to the persons named in Grams mt to the annexed schedule, and their heirs, the quantity of land therein be conveyed stipulated to be granted; but the land so granted shall never be con- :;}[%°“é °°""m veyed by either of the said persons, or their heirs, unless by the consenf of the President of the United States. In testimony whereof, the said Jonathan Jennings, Lewis Cass, and Benjamin Parke, commissioners as aforesaid, and the sachems, chiefs, and warriors, of the Potawatamie tribe of Indians, have hereunto set their hands, at St. Mary’s, in the state of Ohio, this second day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and of the independence of the United States the forty-third. JONATHAN JENNINGS, LEWIS CASS, B. PARKE. Tuthinepee, Wogaw, Cheebaas, Metea, Metamice, Metchepagiss, Winemakoos, Nautchegno, Mescotnome, Osheochebe, Wabmeshema, Keesis, Shawano, Congo, Chacapma, Onoxas, Menomene, Mectenwa, 24 q 2 ues)