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 296 TREATY WITH THE POTTAWATIMIES. 1826. with the said Tippecanoe river, to the place of 'begmmng. And the said tribe also cede to the United States, all their right to land within the following limits; Beginning at a point upon Lake Michigan, ten miles due north of the southern extreme thereof: running thence, due east, to the land ceded by the Indians to the United States by the treaty of Chicago; thence, south, with the boundary thereof, ten miles; thence, west, to the southern extreme of Lake Michigan; thence, with the shore thereof, to the place of beginning. ARTICLE 2. Fnnlm ees. As an evidence of the attachment which the Potawatamie tribe feel ¤i¤¤· towards the American people, and particularly to the soil of Indiana, and with a view to demonstrate their liberality, and benefit themselves by creating facilities for travelling and increasing the value of their remaining country, the said tribe do hereby cede to the United States, a. strip of land, commencing at Lake Michigan, and running thence to the Wabash river, one hundred feet wide, for a road, and also, one seotion of good land contiguous to the said road, for each mile of the same, and also for each mile of a road from the termination thereof, through Indianapolis to the Ohio river, for the purpose of making a road aforesaid frorn Lake Michigan, by the way of Indianapolis, to some convenient point on the Ohio river. And the General Assembly of the Stafe of Indiana shall have a right ta locate the said road, and to apply the said sections, or the proceeds therezf to the making of the same, or any part thereof; and the said grant shall be at their sole disp0sal.(a) ARTICLE 3. Annuity for In consideration of the cessions in the first article, the United States 22 Y*=¤¤’¤- agree to pay to the Potawattamie tribe, an annuity of two thousand dollars in silver, for the term of twenty-two years, and also to provide and support a black-smith for them at some convenient point; to appropriate, for the purposes of education, the annual sum of two thousand dollars, as long as the Congress of the United States may think proper, to be expended as the President may direct; and also, to build for them a mill, sufficient to grind corn, on the Tippecanoe river, and to provide and support a miller; and to pay them annually one hundred and sixty bushels of salt; all of which annuities, herein specified, shall be paid by the Indian Agent at Fort Wayne. ARTICLE 4. P, mem in The Commissioners of the United States have caused to be delivered goods. to the Potawatamie tribe, goods to the value of thirty thousand five hundred and forty-seven dollars and seventy-one cents in goods, in consideration of the cessions in the first article of this treaty. Now, therefore, it is agreed, that, if this treaty should be ratified by the President and Senate of the United States, the United States shall pay to the persons named in the schedule this day transmitted to the War Department, and signed by the Commissioners, the sums affixed to their names respectively, for goods furnished by them, and amounting to the said sum of thirty thousand five hundred and forty-seven dollars and seventy- one cents, and also, to the persons who may furnish the said further sum, the amount of nine hundred dollars thus furnished. And it is also agreed, that payment for all these goods shall be made by the Potawatamie tribe out of their annuity, if this treaty should not be ratified by the United States. U.S. agree to ARTICLE 5. £?,{m°:‘:;':ns, The Potawatamie tribe being anxious to pay certain claims existing Pottqwagimiet against them, it is agreed, as a part of the consideration for the cessions (a) These words in Italics were struck out by the Senate.