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 356 TREATY WITH THE SHAWNEES. 1831. United States by the aforesaid Shawnees, one hundred and forty-five sections or square miles, which includes all the land now owned or claimed by the said band or tribe of Shawnees in the State of Ohio. S£"m°"¤l °f ARTICLE II. In consideration of the cessions stipulated in the foreawn°°S‘ going article, the United States agree to cause the said tribe or band of Shawnees, consisting of about four hundred souls, to be removed in a convenient and suitable manner to the Western side of the Mississippi Gram 0,- land river, and will grant by patent in fee simple to them and their heirs for west of the Mis- ever, as long as they shall exist as a nation and remain upon the same, “'”’PP‘· a tract of land to contain one hundred thousand acres, to be located under the direction of the President of the United States, within the tract of land equal to fifty miles square, which was granted to the Shawnee Indians of the State of Missouri by the second article of a treaty made at the city of Saint Louis in said State, with the said Shawnees of Missouri by William Clark, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, on the 7th day of November in the year 1825; and in which it is provided that the grant aforesaid shall be for the Shawnee tribe of Indians within the State of Missouri, " and for those of the same nation now residing in Ohio, who may hereafter emigrate to the west of the Mississippi ;" but if there should not be a sufficiency of good land unoccupied by the Shawnee Indians who have already settled on the tract granted as aforesaid by the said treaty of Saint Louis; then the tract of one hundred thousand acres, hereby granted to the said Shawnees of Ohio, parties to this compact, shall be located under the direction of the President of the United States on lands contiguous to the said Shawnees of Missouri, or on any other unappropriated lands within the district of country designed for the emigrating Indians of the United States. One year’s Anrrcnn III. The United States will defray the expenses of the ““Pl’°'°* &"" removal of the said band or tribe of Shawnees, and will moreover supply them with a sufficiency of good and wholesome provisions, to support them for one year after their arrival at their new residence. S,,w.m;;y, An·rrc1.n IV. Out of the first sales to be made of the lands herein grist-mill. &¤- ceded by the said Shawnees, the United States will cause a good and substantial saw mill, and a grist mill, built in the best manner, and to contain two pair of stones and a good bolting cloth, to be erected on the lands granted to the said Shawnees, west of the Mississippi; and said mills shall be solely for their use and benefit. The United States will, out of the sales of the ceded lands, as aforesaid, cause a blacksmith shop, (to contain all the necessary tools,) to be built for the said Shawnees, at their intended residence, and a blacksmith shall be employed by the United States, as long as the President thereof may deem proper, to execute all necessary and useful work for said Indians. $13,000 ad. Aarrctn V. In lieu of the improvements which have been made on V¤¤¤°d I0' im- the lands herein ceded, it is agreed that the United States shall advance pr°v°m°mS' to the said Shawnees (for the purpose of enabling them to erect houses and open farms at their intended residence) the sum of thirteen thousand dollars, to be reimbursed from the sales of the lands herein ceded by them to the United States. A fair and equitable distribution of this sum shall be made by the chiefs of the said Shawnees ; with the consent of the people, in general council assembled, to such individuals of their tribe who have made improvements on the lands herein ceded, and may be properly entitled to the same. _Faym;¤g mn. Amrcta VI. The farming utensils, live stock and other chattel promls, &.c. perty, which the said Shawnees now own, and may not be able to carry with them, shall be sold, under the superintendance of some suitable