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 274 TREATY WITII THE SIOUX, ETC. 1825. half a day’s march below the falls of that river, and run thence to the source of Clear Water river, a branch of the Chippewa; thence south to Black River; thence to a point where the woods project into the medows, and thence to the Plover Portage of the Ouisconsin. ARTICLE 7. Agreement ne. It is agreed between the Winnebagoes and the Sioux, Sacs and Foxes, twcenrhe Win- Chippewas and Ottawas, Chippewas and Potawatomies of the Illinois, {!:;"§{g$;a'£c that the Winnebago country shall be bounded as follows: south easterly ’by Rock River, from its source near the Winnebago lake, to the Winnebago village, about forty miles above its rnouth; westerly by the east line of the tract, lying upon the Mississippi, herein secured to the Ottawa, Chippewa and Potawatomie Indians, of the Illinois; and also by the high bluff described in the Sioux boundary, and running north to Black river: from this point the Winnebagoes claim up Black river, to a point due west from the source of the left fork of the Ouiconsin; thence to the source of the said fork, and down the same to the Ouisconsin; thence down the Ouisconsin to the portage, and across the portage to Fox river; thence down Fox river to the Winnebago lake, and to the grand Kan Kanlin, including in their claim the whole of Winnebago lake; but, for the causes stated in the next article, this line from Black river must for the present be left indeterminate. ARTICLE 8. Agreement ne. The representatives of the Menominies not being sufriciently acquainted tweenthe Me- with their proper boundaries, to settle the same definitively, and some egg, uncertainty existing in consequence of the cession made by that tribe ’upon Fox River and Green Bay, to the New York Indians, it is agreed between the said Menominie tribe, and the Sioux, Chippewas, Winnebagoes, Ottawa, Chippewa and Potawatomie Indians of the Illinois, that the claim of the Menominies to any portion of the land within the boundaries allotted to either of the said tribes, shall not be barred by any stipulation herein; but the same shall remain as valid as if this treaty had not been concluded. It is, however, understood that the general claim of the Menominies islbounded on the north by the Chippewa country, on the east by Green Bay and lake Michigan extending as far south as Millawaukee river, and on the West they claim to Black River. ARTICLE 9. Bnnndet-y of The country secured to the Ottawa, Chippewa, and Potawatomie tribes O¤¤W¤S. d of the Illinois, is bounded as follows: Beginning at the Winnebago P0l{’,f;;v,?;;,2;• village, on Rock river, forty miles from its mouth, and running thence down the Rock river to a line which runs from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi, and with that line to the Mississippi, opposite to Rock Island; thence up that river to the United States reservation, at the mouth of the Ouisconsin; thence with the south and east lines of the said reservation to the Ouisconsin; thence, southerly, passing the heads of the small streams emptying into the Mississippi, to the Rock river at the Winnebago village. The Illinois Indians have also a just claim to a portion of the country bounded south by the Indian boundary line aforesaid, running from the southern extreme of lake Michigan, east by lake Michigan, north by the Menominie country, and north-west by Ante, p_ ;4t;_ Rock river. This claim is recognized in the treaty concluded with the said Illinois tribes at St. Louis, August 24, 1816, but as the Millewakee and Manetoowalk bands are not represented at this Council, it cannot be now definitively adjusted. ARTICLE 10. All the tribes aforesaid acknowledge the general controlling power