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 TREATY WITH THE WYANDOTS. Anim. 1, 1850. 993 and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the United States, the 1:,.,,,,;,,,, and by the chiefs and national council of the Wyandot nation. ¤¤dl>Y the ¤hi¤f¤ In testimony whereof, the said commissioner on the part of the  W"“‘d°" United States, and the said head chief and deputies, delegates on the Signed April part of the Wyandot tribe or nation of Indians, have hereunto set their 1• 185°· hands, at the city of Washington, D. C., this first day of April, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty; ARDAVAN S. LOUGHERY, [L. s.] United States Commissioner. F. A. HICK, [r.. s. GEO. J. CLARK, r.. s. JOEL WALKER, [1.. s. WILLIAM B. WAUGH, Secretary. In presence of —-— R. W. Johnson, James X. MacLanaban, Geo. F. Wood, James Myer, A. M. Mitchell, Jno. G. Camp, Richard Fields, S. C. Stambaugh, Sam. J. Potts. And whereas, The said treaty having been submitted to the Senate Amended by of the United States for its constitutional action thereon, the Senate *h° S°“;·,[°·,§§8° did, on the twenty-fourth day of September, one thousand eight hun- mmber° dred and fifty, resolve as follows, viz. : " Resolved, (two thirds of the senators present concurring,) That the Senate advise and consent to the ratification of the articles of a convention concluded in the city of Washington, the lst day of April, 1850, by and between Ardavan S. Loughery, commissioner especially appointed by the President of the United States, and the undersigned, head chief and deputies of the Wyandot tribe of Indians, duly authorized and empowered to act for their tribe, with the following AMENDMENT. Strike out the preamble, and all the other articles of the treaty, except the twelfth, and insert as follows: Whereas, By the treaty of March 17, 1842, between the United States Preamble. and the Wyaiidot nation of Indians, then chiefly residing within the limits of the State of Ohio, the said nation of Indians agreed to sell and transfer, and did thereby sell and transfer, to the United States their reservations of land, one hundred and nine thousand acres of which was in the State of Ohio, and six thousand acres was in the State of Michigan, and to remove to the west of the Mississippi River: And whereas, among other stipulations it was agreed that the United States should convey to said Indians a tract of country for their permanent settlement in the Indian territory west of the Mis; sissippi River, to contain one hundred an [and] forty-eight thousand acres of land: And whereas, The said Indians never did receive the said one hundred and forty-eight thousand acres of land from the United States, but were forced to purchase lands from the Delaware nation of Indians, which purchase was agreed to and ratified by the United States: Now, in order to settle the claim of the Wyandot tribe of Indians to said land, the United States having appointed A. S. Loughery a commissioner or their part, who, with the undersigned delegates from the Wyandot nation, have agreed to the following treaty: