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 ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT AND CONVENTION, Made and concluded at Lewistown, in the county of Logan, and my 20 ,83, State of Ohio, on the twentieth day of July, in the year of our +4- Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, by and be- ,§,Q‘§f2"“}‘gg;"· tween James B. Gardiner, specially appointed commissioner on i i the part of the United States, and John McElvain, Indian agent for the Wyandots, Senecas and Shawnees, on the one part, and the undersigned princnnal chiefs and warriors of the mixed band ry" Senecas and Shawnee Indians residing at and around the said Lewistown, of the other part ; for the cession y` the lands now owned and occupied by said band, lying on the waters of the Great .Miami river, and within the territorial limits ¢y" the organized county of Logan, in said State of Ohio. ’tVnmznAs the President of the United States, under the authority of the Act of Congress, approved May 28th, 1830, has appointed a special commissioner to confer with the different Indian tribes residing within the constitutional limits of the State of Ohio, and to offer for their acceptance the provisions contained in the before recited act. And whereas the mixed band or tribes of Seneca and Shawnee Indians residing at and around Lewistown in said State have expressed their perfect assent to the conditions of said act, and their willingness and anxiety to remove west of the Mississippi river, in order to obtain a more permanent and advantageous home for themselves and their posterity: Therefore, in order to carry into effect the aforesaid objects, the following articles have been agreed upon by the aforesaid contracting parties; which, when approved by the President and ratified lg the Senate of the United States, shall be mutually binding upon the nited States and the said Seneca and Shawnee Indians. Arvrrcna I. The Seneca and Shawnee Indians, residing at and around Ccsskm 0,- Lewistown in the State of Ohio, in consideration of the stipulations 1am38m U_s, herein made on the part of the United States, do for ever cede, release and quit claim to the United States, the lands granted to them by patent in fee simple by the sixth article of the treaty made at the foot of the rapids of the Miami river of Lake Erie, on the twenty-ninth day of Ante, P- lG0· September, in the year 1817, containing forty-eight square miles, and described in said treaty as follows :—-—" Beginning at the intersection of the line run by Charles Roberts in the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, from the source of the Little Miami river, to the source of the Scioto river, in pursuance of instructions from the commissioners appointed on the part of the United States, to establish the western boundary of the Virginia military reservation, with the Indian boundary line established by the treaty of Greenville in one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five from the crossings above Fort Lawrence to Loramie’s store, and to run from such intersection, northerly, with the first mentioned line, so as to include the quantity as nearly in a square form as practicable, after excluding the section of land granted to Nancy Stewart."And the said Senecas and Shawnees also cede to the United States, in manner aforesaid, one other tract of land, reserved for them by the second article of the treaty made at St. Marys in Ohio,·on the seventeenth of September, in the year 1818, which tract is described in (351)