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 338 THIRTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 19. 1848. on one side, and the Wyandotts on the other, in full council assem. bled, have agreed, and do agree, to the following stipulations, to wit:-- An·r·rcr.¤ I. The Delaware nation of Indians, residing between the Missouri and Kansas Rivers, being very anxious to have their uncles, the Wyandotte, to settle and reside near them, do hereby donate, grant, and quitclaim forever, to the Wyandott nation, three sections of land, containing six hundred and forty acres each, lying and being situated at the point of the junction of the Missouri and Kansas Rivers. ARTICLE 2. The Delaware chiefs, for themselves and by the unanimous consent of their people, do hereby cede, grant, quitclaim to the Wyandott nation, and their heirs forever, thirty-six sections of land, 'each containing six hundred and forty acres, situated between the aforesaid Missouri and Kansas Rivers, and adjoining on the west the aforesaid three donated sections, making in all thirty-nine sections of lund, bounded as follows, viz. : Commencing at the point at the junction of the aforesaid Missouri and Kansas Rivers, running west along the Kansas River sufficiently far to include the aforesaid thirty-nine sections; thence running north to the Missouri River; thence down the said river with its meanders to the place of beginning; to be surveyed in as near a square form as the rivers and territory ceded will admit of Anrrrcma 3. In consideration of the foregoing donation and cession ofland, the l¤Vyand0tt chiefs bind themselves, successors in office, and their people, to pay to the Delaware nation of Indians forty-six thousand and eighty dollars, as follows, viz.: six thousand and eighty dollars to be paid the year eighteen hundred and forty-four, and four thousand dollars annually thereafter for ten years. Axrrcna 4. It is hereby distinctly understood, between the contracting parties, that the aforesaid agreement shall not be binding or obligatory until the President of the United States shall have approved the same, and caused it to be recorded in the Wzir Department. In testimony whereof, we, the chiefs and headmen of the Delaware nation, and the chiefs and headmen of the W'yandott nation, have, this fourteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and forty-three, set cnr signatures. NAH-KOO-MER., his x mark. \ Captain KETCHUM, his x mark. Captain SUAVEC, his x mark, JACKENDUTHEN, his x mark. SAN—KOCK-SA, his x mark. Delaware chem COCK—I—TO-WA, his x mark, SA—SAR—SIT—TONA, his x mark, PEMP-SCAH, his x mark, NAH—O.UE-NON, his x mark, HENRY JACQUIS, his x mark, JAMES WASHINGTON, his x mark, MATTHEWV PEACOCK, his x mark, JAMES BIGTREE, his x mark, Ufyandotts. GEORGE ARMSTRONG, his x mark, TAN-ROO—MIE, his x mark, T. A. HICKS, Signed in open council in presence of JONATHAN Pnrnarvs, Sub-agent for the IVyand0tts. Rrcnaxn W. Cumarms, Indian Agent. IAM2s M. Smvsqn. CHARLES GRAHAM. Jom. WALKER, Secretary of the W;/andott Council. Hnmur Tmnow, Indian Interpreter, Delaware."