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 TREATY WITH THE IOWAS, ETC. 1836. 511 the United States, to cause said tribes to be furnished with presents to the amount of four hundred dollars—m goods or in money. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set m hand and ' day of September 1836. y Sed this tenth Z. TAYLOR Col U S. Army Q- Actg. U S. Indian Agent. ARTICLES OF A TREATY, Made and concluded at Fort Leavenworth, on the Jmssouri river, Sept. 17, 1826. between Wiliam Clark, Superintendent of Indian Afairs, on *‘,;—]·‘j*— the part of the United States, of the one part, and the under- Feh(lc1g:ni18§,'h’ signed chiefs, warriors, and counsellors of the [away tribe and the band of Sachs and Foxes tf the Jlhssouri, (residing west of the State ¢y‘ Jlhssouri,) in behabf of their respective tribes, of the other part. Awrrcnn 1. By the first article of the treaty of Prairie du Chien, held Treaty of July the Gfteenth day of July eighteen hundred and thirty, with the confede- 1i1:g3°· 328 rated tribes of Sacks, Foxes, Ioways, Omahaws, Missourias, Ottces, and ’ P` ' Sioux, the country ceded to the United States by that treaty, is to be assigned and allotted under the direction of the President of the United States to the tribes living thereon, or to such other tribes as the President may locate thereon for hunting and other purposes.—And whereas it is further represented to us the chiefs, warriors, and counsellors of the Ioways and Sack and Fox band aforesaid, to be desirable that the lands lying between the State of Missouri and the Missouri river, should be attached to and become a part of said State, and the Indian title thereto, be entirely extinguished; but that, notwithstanding, as these lands compose a part of the country embraced by the provisions of said lirst article of the treaty aforesaid, the stipulations thereof will be strictly observed until the assent of the Indians interested is given to the proposed measure. Now we the chiefs, warriors, and counsellors of the Ioways, and Mis- Lands ceded souri band of Sacks and Foxes, fully understanding the subject, and to ¤h¤ U- S- well satisfied from the local position of the lands in question, that they never can be made available for Indian purposes, and that an attempt to place an Indian population on them, must inevitably lead to collisions with the citizens of the United States; and further believing that the extension of the State line in the direction indicated would have a happy elfect, by presenting a natural boundary between the whites and Indians; and willing, moreover, to give the United States a renewed evidence of our attachment and friendship, do hereby for ourselves, and on behalf of our respective tribes, (having full power and authority to this eifect,) forever cede, relinquish, and quit claim, to the United States, all our right, title, and interest of whatsoever nature in, and to, the lands lying between the State of Missouri and the Missouri river; and do freely and fully exonerate the United States from any guarantee; condition or limitation, expressed or implied, under the treaty of Prairie du Chien aforesaid, or otherwise, as to the entire and absolute disposition of the said lands, fully authorizing the United States to do with the same whatever shall seem expedient or necessary. p _ As a proof of the continued friendship and liberality of the United