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 TREATY WITH THE SACS AND FOXES. 1824. 229 ber, in the year one thousand eight hundred and bur, and in the twenty-ninth year of the independence and sovereignty of the United States. DANIEL SMITH, RETURN J`. MEIGS. Tolluntuskie, 'Pagust1skee,' Broom, Tulio, John McLamore, Sour Mush, Quotequeskee, Keatehee, Path Killer, James Vanu. Wrrxrssss.-Rob. Purdy, Secretary. John McKee. Jno. Campbell, Cap. 2d U. States' Regt. commanding. John Brahan, Lieut. 2d reg’t Infantry. Thos. J. Van Dyke, Surgeon': Mate. Wm. Charp. Hinchey Pettway. Wm. L. Lovely, Ass’t. Ag'!. Ch. Hicks, Interpreter. To tho Indian names are subioined u math and ical. TREATY WITH THE SOCK AND FOX INDIANS. Aug. 4, 1824. Proclamation, To perpetuate peace and friendship between the United States and Jan- IS- 1825- the Sock and Fox tribes or nations of Indians, and to remove all future cause of dissensions which may arise from undelined territorial boundaries, the President of the United States of America, by William Clark, Superintendent of Indian Aifairs, and sole Commissioner specially appointed for that purpose, of the one part, and the undersigned Chiefs and Head Men of the Sock and Fox tribes or nations, fully deputised to act for and in behalf of their said nations, of the other part, have entered into the following articles and conditions, viz: AR·r1cLnlst. The Sock and Fox tribes or nations of Indians, by Agreements their deputations in council assembled, do hereby agree, in considers.- ¤Q*¤¤'°*i\;*‘° W tion of certain sums of money, &.c. to be paid to the said Sock and md m °' Fox tribes, by the Government of the United States, as hereinafter stipulated, to cede and for ever quit claim, and do, in behalf of their said tribes or nations, hereby cede, relinquish, and forever quit claim, unto the United States, all right, title, interest, and claim, to the lands which the said Sock and Fox tribes have, or claim, within the limits of the state of Missouri, which are situated, lying, and being, between the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, and a line running from the Missouri, at the entrance of Kansas river, north one hundred miles to the Northwest corner of the state of Missouri, and from thence east to the Mississippi. It being understood, that the small tract of land lying between the rivers Desmoin and the Mississippi, and the section of the above line between the Mississippi and the Desmoin, is intended for the use of the haltibreeds belonging to the Sock and Fox nations; they holding it, however, by the same title, and in the same manner, that other Indian titles are held. ARTICLE 2d. The Chiefs and Head Men who sign this convention, Lands ceded, for themselves and in behalf of their tribes, do acknowledge the lands &~¤· east and south of the lines described in the first article, so far as the Indians claimed the same, to belong to the United States, and that none of their tribes shall be permitted to settle or hunt upon any part of it, after the lirst day of January, 1826, without special permission from the Superintendent of Indian Affairs. U