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 TREATY WITH THE WYANDOTS. 1832. 365 Secretary of War may depute for that purpose) and an appraiser to be chosen by the said band of Wyandots. And in case the said appraisers shall not be able to agree upon any of their valuations, they shall call to their assistance some competent citizen of the county of Crawford. Aivrrcm IV. There shall [bei] reserved for Roe-nu-nas, one of the Reservazionfor Oldest chiefs of sand band, one nalf section, to contain three hundred Roc-nu·nas. and twenty acres, and to include the improvements where he now lives. Armen V. It is expressly understood between the present contract- R,m,,,.,y_ ing parties, that the said band of .Wyandots may, as they think proper, remove to Canada, or to the river Huron in Michigan, where they own a reservation of land, or to any place they may obtain a right or privilege from other Indians to go. ARTICLE VI.* It was expressly agreed before the signing of this treaty, that that part of the fifth article relating to the granting to the said band of Wyandots lands west of the Mississippi, and every other article in relation thereto is wholly null and void, and of no effect. Anrrcm VII. Inasmuch as the band of Wyandots, herein treating, Special subhave separated themselves from the Wyandots at Upper Sandusky and agemon the Sandusky plains, they ask of the General Government that there may be a special sub-agent and protector appointed for them whilst they remain in the State of Ohio, and they respectfully recommend Joseph McCutcheon, Esq. of the county of Crawford, as a tit and proper person to act in such capacity; and that he may have the power to employ such interpreter as he may think proper in his intercourse with said band. The aforesaid articles of agreement shall be mutually binding upon Tim}, binding the present contracting parties, when ratified by the President of the when ratiticd. United States, by and with the consent of the Senate thereotl J. B. GARDINER. Roe-nu-nas, Matthew Grey eyes, Bear-skin, Isaac Driver, Shi-a·wa, or John Solomon, John D. Brown, John McLean, Alex. Clarke. Done in presence of C. Clarke, Secretary to the Commissioner. Joseph Mc- Cutcheon, J. P. in the county of Crawford, Ohio. John C. Dewit. Richard Rey- nolds. G. W. Sampson. To the Indian names are subjoined marks. Ex1>LANAT1oN. In the first draft of this treaty, provision was made for the removal of the band west of the Mississippi, but they refused to accept of a grant of land, or to remove there, and the articles having relation thereto were accordingly omitted. It was therefore necessary to omit the 6th article; and circumstances did not admit of time to remodel and copy the whole treaty. J. B. GARDINER., Special Commissioner, Qc. 2 r 2
 * After signing, it was mutually agreed to expunge this article.