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 TREATY WITH THE CHIPPEWAS. Aus. 2, 1847. 907 Pe-tud, Ist, chief, his x mark, Mille Lac. Aunch-e·be-nas, 2d warrior, his x mark, Mille Lac. Mish-in-nack-in-ugo, warrior, his x mark, Red Cedar Lake. Gah—nin-dum-a-win-so, lst chief, his x mark, Sandy Lake. Mis-quod-ase, warrior, his x mark, " N a-tum·e-gaw—bow, 2d chief, his x mark, " I-ah·be-dua—we-dung, warrior, his x mark, " Bi-a-jig, Ist chief,, his x mark, Pukaguno. Joseph Montre, lst chief, Mississippi half-breeds. VVitnesses -— IVm. W. Warren, Peter Marksman, l Imerprcters" Smith Hovers. The signature of No-din, or The Wind, written by his request on the 3d day of August, 1847, and with the consent of the commissioners —- No-din, or The Wind, his x mark. In presence of William A. Aitkin, R. B. Carlton. I approve of this treaty, and consent to the same, August 3d, 1847. Fond-du-lac. Po-go-ne-gi-shik, or Hole-in-the—day, his x mark. Witness — William Aitkin, D. T. Sloan. NOTE. In executive session Senate of the United States, April 3, 1848. Resolved, (two thirds of the senators present concurring,) That the Améndmem Senate advise and consent to the ratification of the articles of a treaty °f um S°“°°°‘ made and concluded at the Fond·du-lac of Lake Superior, on the second day of August, in the year 1847, between the United States, by their commissioners, Isaac A. Verplank and Henry M. Rice, and the Chippewa Indians of the Mississippi and Lake Superior, by their chiefs and headmen, with the following amendments: Strike out of article 3 the words " the chiefs of"’ wherever they occur in said article. Insert in article 3, after the words " place or places," where they first occur, the following words : and in such manner. Strike out the 5th article of the treaty, in the following words: " Article 5, The United States agree to establish an agency on or near the Mississippi River, at a point convenient for the Chippewas of the Mississippi, immediately afier the ratification of this treaty, or as soon thereafter as may be, to be located at such point as the President shall direct; and the amount of annuities to which the Chippewas of the Mississippi are entitled under this and all former treaties shall be paid to them at the said agency; and the amount of their just proportion of annuities resulting from former treaties shall be determined by the President."