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said Sho-bon-nier, that he has often been at his house & 

 conversed upon the subject of his reservation, and that 

 he never pretended that either of the aforesaid Sections 

 were his reservations, or that his said "village" was on 

 them, but always on the contrary, that it was at some 

 other place frequently mentioning a place near the Illi- 

 nois line, known in the Indian language as "Mus-qua-och- 

 bis" (Red Cedar Lake) as the spot where he most wished 

 to have his reservation located — And further that the 

 said Indian is old and infirm and aparently short lived, 

 and has emigrated to the west of the Missisippee river, 

 and has no intention of settling upon his reservation if 

 located — That the aforesaid Butler & one John Mann, 

 also a white man appear to be the only persons taking 

 or having an interest in the said reservation, and their 

 great anxiety to locate it upon the said Section 8 arises 

 from the fact that this deponant and others have made 

 it valuable by their labor in making improvements 

 thereon to the value of more than two thousand dollars 

 And this deponant further saith, that placing full faith 

 in the words of the treaty aforesaid & in the informa- 

 tion of the Indian agent, as will appear by his certificate, 

 and by the word of the said Sho-bon-nier himself that 

 this was not his reservation, and trusting in the mag- 

 nanimity & justice of the government of the United 

 States, this deponant & others have incurred great ex- 

 pense in improving farms on said Section 8, and have 

 at their individual expense erected suitable & commo- 

 dious buildings for the use of the County, (until the 

 lands, therein shall be sold,) in which the courts are 

 held & public business done, and that the location of 

 the aforesaid reservation upon their said improvements, 

 whereby they will be deprived of the right of purchaseing 

 the land in the usual way will be an act of oppression 

 upon humble citizens not warranted except upon the most 

 clear principle of law & justice to the aforesaid reservee 

 for his benifit alone — 



