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 424 TREATY WITH THE QUAPAWS. 1833. nation hereby declare themselves well satisfied with the- location provided for them by the Commissioners, and agree that their nation shall commence the removal to their new home, as soon as the Government will make arrangements for their emigration, satisfactory to the Seminole nation. Ithjm Phagan And whereas, the said Seminoles have expressed high confidence in to Superinwnd the friendship and ability of their present agent, Major Phagen, and £:;‘;"“l°f I"‘ desire that he may be permitted to remove them to their new homes ` west of the Mississippi; the Commissioners have considered their request, and cheerfully recommend Major Phagan as a suitable person to be employed to remove the Seminoles as aforesaid, and trust his appointment will be made, not only to gratify the wishes of the Indians but as conducive to the public welfare. In testimony whereof; the Commissioners on behalf of the United States and the. delegates of the Seminole nation, have hereunto signed their names, this 28th day of March, A. D. 1833, at Fort Gibson. MONTFORT STOKES, HENRY L. ELLSWORTH, JOHN F. SCHERMERHORN. Seminole Delegates : Charly Emartla, John Hick, representing Sam. Jones, Y*‘h”·h*dE°» _ _ Horam Emmua, Ne-li;-tllioéclo, representing Fuch-a-lusti- Jum cr, 3 E · Col bhdgo, On behalf af the Seminole nation. Read and signed in our presence: S. C. Stambaugh, Secty. Comm’rs. John Phagun, Agent. P. L. Chouteau, U. S. Ind. Agt. for Osages. A. P. Choutcau. Enoch Steer. Abraham, Seminole Interpr. To the Indian names are subjoined marks. ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT May 13, 1833_ Or a treaty between the United States and the Quapaw Indians ·IT·—f— entered into by John F. SCIL€l`77lC)'h0fTL,COlllI7Zi.S‘SI07lC2` if Indian reclamation, . . . April 12, 1834. ajazrs west on the part of the United States and the chiefs and warriors of the Quapaw Indians. preamble_ Wnnnnas, by the treaty between the United States and the Quapaw Ar.m,p.232. Indians, concluded November 15th, 1824, they coded to the United States all their lands in the Territory of Arkansas, and according to which they were " to be concentrated and cczyined to a district of country inhabited by the Caddo Indians and form a part of said tribe," and whereas they did remove according to the stipulations of said treaty, and settled on the Bayou Treache on the south side of Red River, on a tract of land given them by the Caddo Indians, but which was found subject to frequent inundations on account of the raft on Red River, and where their crops were destroyed by the water year after year, and which also proved to be a very sickly country and where in a short time, nearly one-fourth of their people died, and whereas they could obtain no other situation from the Caddoes and they refused to incorpo-