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 472 TREATY WITH THE CADDOES. 1835. D. M. Heard, M. D. act. assis. Surgn. U. S. A. Isaac C. Williamson. Henry Queen. John W Edwards, Interpreter. To the Indian names are subjoined s mark end seal. July 3, 1825. Agreeably to the stipulations in the third article of the treatythere "“"_'"" have been purchased at the request of the Caddo Ind1ans,and delivered to them,goods and horses to the amount of thirty thousand dollars. As evidence of the purchase and delivery as aforesaid, under the direction of the commissioner and that the whole of the same have been received by the said Indians the said commissioner, Jehiel Brooks, and the undersigned chiefs and head men of the whole Caddo nation of Indians, have hereunto set their hands, and atlixed their seals the third day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-tive. J. BROOKS. Tarshar, Ossinse, 'Fsauninot, Tiohtow, Satiownhown, Chowawanow. Oat, In presence of Larkin Edwards. Henry Queen. John W. Edwards, Interpreter. James Finnerty. To the Indian names are subjoinsd a mark and seal. ARTICLES SUPPLEMENTARY July 1, 1835 To the treaty made at the agency house in the Caddo nation and State —-——---———-—· of Louisiana on the _]irst day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirtyjive between Jehiel Brooks Commissioner on the art ry" the United States, and the Chiefs head men and Warriors zghe Caddo nation of Indians concluded at the same place, and on the same day between the said Commissioner on the part of the United States and the Chirfs Head men and Warriors of the said nation of Indians, to witp,,,ambl,,_ Wnmmas the said nation of Indians did in the year one thousand eight hundred and one,give to one Francois Grappe and to his three sons then born and still living, named Jacques, Dominique and Belthazar, for reasons stated at the time and repeated in a memorial which the said nation addressed to the President of the United States in the month of January last, one league of land to each, in accordance with the Spanish custom of granting land to individuals. That the chiefs and head men, with the knowledge and approbation of the whole Caddo people did go with the said Francois Grappe, accompanied by a number of white men, who were invited by the said chiefs and head men to be present as witnesses, before the Spanish authority at Natchitoches, and then and there did declare their wishes touching the said donation of land to the said Grappe and his three sons, and did request the same to be written out in form and ratified and confirmed by the proper authorities agreeahly to law. And wueunas Larkin Edwards has resided for many years to the present time in the Caddo Nation——was a long time their true and faithful interpreter, and though poor he has never sent the Red man away from his door hungry. He is now old and unable to support himself by manual labor, and since his employment as their interpreter has ceased possesses no adequate means by which to live: Now therefore-