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 364 TREATY WITH THE WYANDOTS. 1832. I do hereby certify that each article of the foregoing convention was fairly interpreted and fully explained by me to the chiefs head men and warriors who have signed the same. HENRY CON N ER, Interpreter. ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT AND CONVENTION Jan. 19, 1822. Made and concluded at McCutcheonsville, Crawford county, Ohio, on the nineteenth day of January, 1832, by and between James April 6, 1832., B. Gardiner, specially appointed commissioner on the part of the United States, and the Chiefs, Headmen and Warriors of the band of Wyandots, residing at the Big Spring, in said county of Crawford, and owning a reservation of 16,000 acres at that place. Wneunas the said band of Wyandots have become fully convinced that, whilst they remain in their present situation in the State of Ohio, in the vicinity of a white population, which is continually increasing and crowding around them, they cannot prosper and be happy, and the morals of many of their people will be daily becoming more and more vitiated-—-And understanding that the Government of the United States is willing to purchase the reservation of land on which they reside, and for that purpose have deputed the said James B. Gardiner as special commissioner to treat for a cession of the same : -——Therefore, to effect the aforesaid objects, the said Chiefs, Headmen and Warriors, and the said James B. Gardiner, have this day entered into and agreed upon the following articles of convention. (:%,,10,, Orland Aivricm I. The band of Wyandots residing at the Big Spring in the ¢¤ U- S- county of Crawford, and State of Ohio, do hereby forever cede and relinquish to the United States the reservation of sixteen thousand acres of land, granted to them by the second article of the treaty made at St. ·"-¤*°- P- l'78· Mary’s, on the seventeenth day of September, eighteen hundred and eighteen, which grant is in the following words, to wit: “There shall be reserved for the use of the Wyandots residing at Solomon’s town and on Blanchard’s fork sixteen thousand acres of land, to be laid off in a square form, on the head of Blanchard’s fork, the centre of which shall be at the Big spring, on the road leading from Upper Sandusky to Fort Findlay." S,,],, 0; ;,,,,d_ Aurora II. The United States stipulate with the said band of Wy- andots that, as soon as practicable after the ratification of this treaty, the aforesaid tract of sixteen thousand acres shall be surveyed into sections and put into market and sold in the ordinary manner of selling the public lands of the United States; and when the same shall be sold, or as soon as any part thereof shall be disposed of, (be the price received therefor more or less) there shall be paid to the chiefs, head—men and warriors, signing this treaty, for the benefit of all the said band of Wy- andots, the sum of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre for each and every acre so sold or for sale. The said price shall be paid in silver, and in the current coin of the United States. U_ S_ agree to Anrrcrm III. For the improvements now made upon said reservation pay for im- the United States agree to pay a fair valuation in money, according to l"°"°“‘°““’· the appraisement of Joseph McCutcheon, Esq. (or such person as the