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 TREATY WITH THE NEW YORK INDIANS. 1838. 553 the same to be aportioned out to the several claimants by the chiefs of the said party and a United States’ Commissioner, as may be deemed by them equitable and just. It is further agreed, that the following reservation of land shall be made to the Rev. Eleazer Williams, of said tribe, which he claims in his own right, and in that of his wife, which he is to hold in fee simple, by patent from the President, with full power and authority to sell and dispose of the same, to wit: beginning at a point in the west bank of Fox River thirteen chains above the old milldam at the rapids of the Little Kockalin; thence north fifty-two degrees and thirty minutes west, two hundred and forty chains; thence north thirty-seven degrees and thirty minutes east, two hundred chains; thence south fifty-two degrees and thirty minutes east, two hundred and forty chains to the bank of Fox river; thence up along the bank of Fox river to the place of beginning. SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR THE SENECAS. Arvrrcnn 10. It is agreed with the Senecas that they shall have for Land set apart themselves and their friends, the Cayugas and Onondagas, residing *`°¤l¤¤ S¤¤¤¤=¤» among them, the easterly part of the tract set apart for the New York  yd Indians, and to extend so far west, as to include one haltisection (three g ° hundred and twenty acres) of land for each soul of the Senecas, Cayugas and Onandagas, residing among them; and it, on removing west, they find there is not sufficient timber on this tract for their use, then the President shall add thereto timber land sufficient for their accommodation, and they agree to remove; to remove from the State of New York to their new homes within five years, and to continue to reside there. And whereas at the making of this treaty, Thomas L. Ogden and Joseph Fellows the assignees of the State of Massachusetts, have purchased of Money dug to the Seneca nation of Indians, in the presence and with the approbation the S¤¤¢¢¤¤ by of the United States Commissioner, appointed by the United States to ilg‘L°;°:£§sf(‘°' hold said treaty, or convention, all the right, title, interest, and claim U, s,, aw, of the said Seneca nation, to certain lands, by a deed of conveyance a duplicate of which is hereunto annexed; and whereas the consideration money mentioned in said deed, amounting to two hundred and two thousand dollars, belongs to the Seneca nation, and the said nation agrees that the said sum of money shall be paid to the United States, and the United States agree to receive the same, to be disposed of as follows: the sum of one hundred thousand dollars is to be invested by the President of the United States in safe stocks, for their use, the income of which is to be paid to them at their new homes, annually, and the ballance, being the sum of one hundred and two thousand dollars, is to be paid to the owners of the improvements on the lands so deeded, according to an appraisement of said improvements and a distribution and award of said sum of money among the owners of said improvements, to be made by appraisers, hereafter to be appointed by the Seneca nation, in the presence of a United States Commissioner, hereafter to be appointed, to be paid by the United States to the individuals who are entitled to the same, according to said apprisal and award, on their severally relinquishing their respective possessions to the said Ogden and Fellows. SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR THE CAYUGAS. An·rrcr.n ll. The United States will set apart for the Cayugas, on .M0ngygtg bg their removing to their new homes at the west, two thousand. dollars, gnvestcd fogbthe and will invest the same in some safe stocks, the income of which shall “Y“g‘“· °‘ be paid them annually, at their new homes. The United States further agree to pay to the said nation, on their removal west, two thousand five hundred dollars, to be disposed as the chiefs shall deem Just and equitable. 70 2W