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 ARTICLES OF A TREATY O_,,_23,11,34_ Between the United States and the Miami tribe rj Indians, con- eluded at the Forks of the Wabash, in the State ofdndiana on Damn, 1837] the 23d day of October 1834-—by and between William Marshall Commissioner ry" the United States and the Chiefs and Warriors of said tribe. (a) CeSsion0f1Emd_ ARTICLE 1st. The Miami tribe of Indians agree to cede to the United to U_S_ States-the following described tracts of land, within the State of Indiana—being a part of reservations made to said tribe from former cessions-—-now conveyed for and in consideration of the payments stipulated to be made to them in the 2d article of this treaty [of] cession: An,€’p_ 3011 One tract of land, thirty-six sections at Flat Belly’s village a reserve made by the treaty of Wabash of 1826. Also one tract of land about twenty-three thousand acres, more or less, a reserve made at Wabash treaty in 1826 of five miles in length on the Wabash river extending back to Eel river. Also one other tract of ten sections at Racoon village and a tract of ten sections at Mud creek on Eel river at the old village reserves made at Wabash treaty of 1826. Ante, p. 178. Also one reserve of two miles square on the Salamany river at the mouth of At-che-pong-quawe creek, made at the treaty of St. Mary’s of 1818. Also one other tract, being a portion of the ten mile square reserve, Ante, p. 189- made at the treaty of St. Mary’s of 1818, opposite the mouth of the river Aboutte, commencing at the northeast corner of said reserve, thence south with the eastern boundary of the same ten miles, to the southeast corner of the reserve-thence west with the southern boundary one mile-thence north nine miles thence west nine miles, thence north one mile to the northwest corner of said reserve, thence to the place of beginning. The Miamies also agree to cede a portion of their big reserve made at the treaty of St. Mary’s of 1818——situated southeast of the Wabash -—·extending along the Wabash river from the mouth of Salamany river-—to the mouth of Eel river——The part now ceded shall be embraced—witl1ii1 the thllowing bounds, to wit; commencing on the Wabash river at the mouth of Eel river, runing up said Wabash river— eight miles-—thence south two miles-—thence westwardly one milethence south to the southern boundary of said reserve-thence along said boundary line seven miles—to the southwest corner——thence northerly with the western boundary line to the place of begining. C0,1S;de1.a11011 Axrrcts 2d. For and in consideration of the cession made in the first therefor. article of this treaty——the United States agree to pay to the Miami tribe of Indians, the sum of two hundred and eight thousand dollars, of this sum fifty-eight thousand dollars, to be paid in goods, as soon as the commissioner on the part of the United States can procure the same, and he binds himself to deliver them in one moon from this date, fifty thousand dollars at the urgent request of the Indians, to be placed in the hands of the present Indian age11t at Logansport to be by him, applied, to the payment of the debts of the tribe agreeable to a schedule (a) It has been deemed proper to insert parts of the proclamations in relation to this treaty andthe amendments thereto. (458)