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 218 TREATY WITH THE OTTAWAS, ETC. 1821. leasetheCreeks aforesaid sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, secured by the P""` °° 1802* charge of all bona fide and liquidated claims, which the citizens of the said state may establish against the Creek nation, do, by these presents, release, exonerate, and discharge, the said Creek nation from all and every claim and claims, of whatever description, nature, or kind, the same may be, which the citizens of Georgia now have, or may have had, prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and two, against the said Glaimgtmns. nation. And we do hereby assign, transfer, and set over, unto the f°¤°d W U- S- United States, for the use and benefit of the said Creek nation, for the consideration hereinbefore expressed, all the right, title, and interest, of the citizens of the said state, to all claims, debts, damages, and property, of every description and denomination, which the citizens of the said state have, or had, prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and two, as aforesaid, against the said Creek nation. In witness whereof we have hereunto aihxed our hands and seals, at the Mineral Spring, in the said Creek nation, this eighth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one. I. M‘INTOSH, DAVID ADAMS, DANIEL NEWNAN. Present, D. M. Forney. D. Meriwether. D. B. Mitchell, Agent for Indian Affairs. ARTICLES OF A TREATY Aug 29, ,8% Made and concluded at Chicago, in the State of Illinois, between ·i,—··~+ Lewis Cass and Solomon Sibley, Commissioners of the United roclamation,. _ _ M,,my,25, 1822_ States, and the Ottawa, Chgopewa, and Pottawatamie, Nations of Indians. Qessionorlimd Anrrcuz 1. The Ottawa, Chippewa, and Pottawatamie, Nations of b¤¤¤· Indians cede to the United States all the Land comprehended within the scribed_following boundaries: Beginning at a point on the south bank of the river St. Joseph of Lake Michigan, near the Parc aux Vaches, due north from Rum’s Village, and running thence south to a line drawn due east from the southern extreme of Lake Michigan, thence with the said line east to the Tract ceded by the Pottawatamies to the United A¤*¢,p· 160- States by the Treaty of Fort Meigs in 1817, if the said line should strike the said Tract, but if the said line should pass north of the said Tract, then such line shall be continued until it strikes the western boundary of the Tract ceded to the United States by the Treaty of Detroit in 1807, and from the termination of the said line, following the boundariesof former cessions, to the main branch of the Grand River of Lake Michigan, should any of the said lines cross the said River, but if none of the said lines should cross the said River, then to a point due east of the source of the said main branch of the said river, and from such point due west to the source of the said principal branch, and from the crossing of the said River, or from the source thereof as the case may be, down the said River, on the north bank thereof, to the mouth; thence following the shore of Lake Michigan to the south bank
 * 9*** all claims said treaty or convention to be paid to the state of Georgia, for the dig.