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 TREATY WITH THE SENECAS AND SIIAWNEES. 1832. 411 in the State of Indiana, to enable them to join the rest of their tribe on the lands herebyassigned them, and will also furnish said portion of the tribe with provisions for one year after their arrival. Anrrcrn V. The United States will also support a blacksmith’s shop Blacksmith’s for five years at a convenient place between the lands hereby ceded the Sh°P· said Piankeshaws and WVeas, and the lands assigned to the Kaskaskias and Peorias; which shop is to be for the benefit of the said tribes of Piankeshaws, Weas, Peorias, and Kaskaskias, in common. Anrrctn VI. This treaty to be obligatory on the contracting parties, Treaty binding when ratified by the President and Senate of the United States. when ¥¤liH¤d· Done at Castor Hill in the county of St. Louis in the State of Missouri, this twenty-ninth day of October, in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, and of the Independence of the United States the fifty-seventh. WM. CLARK, FRANK J. ALLEN, NATHAN KOUNS. Weas. Piankeshawa. Wa·pon·ke-ah, Swan, Mah-son-shau, Thunder, Shin-ga-rea, Diving Duck, Nah-he-comma, To do right. Go-te-goh-pa, Stands by himselfi Signed in presence of Jas. Kennerly, Secretary. A. Shane, U. S. Interpreter. Jacques Mette, U. S. Interpreter. Jesse Elder. Joseph Guion. Baptiste Peoria, Interpreter. Pierre Menard. William Radford, U. S. Navy. G. S. Rousseau, U. S. A. Meriwether Lewis Clark, Lieut. 6th Int’y. To the Indian names are subjoined marks. ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT, Made and concluded at the Seneca agency, on the head waters of Dec. 29, 1832. the Cowskin river, this 29th day ry" December, in the year q" our P,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, by and between March 22, 1833. Henry L. Ellsworth and John F. Schermerhorn, Commission~ ers, on behalf of the United States, and the Chiefs and Headmen of the “United Nation" of the Senecas and Shawnee Indians, on behalf of said Tribe or Nation. WHEREAS certain articles of agreement and convention were con- pmambiet eluded at Lewistown, Ohio, on the 20th day of July, A. D. 1831, by A¤*¢,P·3¤l· and between the United States and the Chiefs and IVarriors of the mixed band of the Senecas and Shawnee Indians, residing at or near Lewis— town, in the State of Ohio: And whereas, by the 2nd article of said agreement, the United States stipulated and agreed, with said Tribe, in the words following, to wit : " to grant by patent, infee simple, to them, and their heirs forever, as long as they shall exist as a nation and remain on the same, a tract of land, to contain sixty thousand acres, to be located under the direction of the President of the United States, contiguous to the lands granted to the Senecas of Sandusky, by the treaty Ame} p_ gm made with them at the City of Washington, on the 28th of February 1831, and the Cherokee settlements-—the east line of said tract shall be within two miles of the west line of the lands granted to the Senecas