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Tbis tract came originally into the possession of the Shawnee and Delawaros 

 uiidera permit from the Spanish government signed by Baron De Carondelet, 

 under date of Jan. 4, 1793, and reconled in the otKco of the rocorderof land 

 titles at St Louis. The tract was abandoned by the IJelawares in 1S1.5, and 

 the Shawnee removed from it under assurances of receiving another tract in 

 exchange. It was not until tbis treaty that these assurances took formal 

 shape and the Shawnei' ceded this tract for another. In the meantime a 

 portion of the Shawnee had been living on a tract informally assigned them 

 in southwestern Missouri. This latter tract is colored scarlet and was on 

 the head waters of White river. 



As this tract was not acceptable to the Shawnee, a tract on Kansas river was 

 selected, under article 3 of this treaty, as f<dlows: Begiuniug at a ])oint in 

 the western boundary of the State of Missouri, three miles south of where 

 said boundary crosses the mouth of Kansas river; thence coutinning S. on 

 said boundary 25 miles; thence due W. 125 miles; thence due N. until said 

 line shall intersect the southern boundary of the Kansas reservation; thence 

 due E. coinciding with Ww soutliern boundary of said reservation to the ter- 

 mination thereof; tlien( o due N. coinciding with the eastern boundary of 

 said reservation to the southern shore of the Kansas river; thence along said 

 southern sboroof said river to where a line from the place of beginning drawn 

 due W. shall intersect the same. 



This action was based on a protest by a great majority of the chiefs and 

 headmen of the Creek nation against the validity of the treaty of 1825, it 

 being alleged that those who entered into and signed it on liehalf of the 

 Creeks did so without proper warrant or authority. 



Attempts to ascertain the boundaries of this tract have been unsuccessful. 



A supplemental article was added to this treaty on Mar. 31, 1826, wherein 

 the foregoing boundaries were considerably enlarged, as follows : In place of 

 "47 miles" as stipulated in treaty of Jan. 24, 182ti, it is agreed that the point 

 of beginning shall be .")0 miles in a direct line below the Creek and Cherokee 

 boundary on Chattahoochie river; thence running in a direct line to a point 

 in tlii^ boundary line lictween the Creeks and the Cherokee 45 miles W. of Buz- 

 zard's Roost in place of 30 miles, as stipulated in said treaty ; thence to Buz- 

 zard's Koost, and thence to the beginning, it being understood that these lines 

 are to stop at their intersection with the boundary line between Georgia and 

 Alabama wherever that may be, if that line shall cross them in the direction 

 of the Buzzard's Koost at a shorter distance than it is proviiled they shall 

 run; and provided also that if the said dividing line between Georgia and 

 Alabama shall not be reached by the extension of the two lines aforesaid, the 

 one 3 and the other 15 miles, they are to run and terminate as delined in this 

 supplemental article. The boundaries shown on the map are those of the 

 cession as herein amended. 



By the treaty of Feb. 14, 1833, a tract of country was assigned the Creeks in lieu 

 of the one herein promised. 



Deaignalion of cession on map 

 Number 



125, 120 



Location 



Missouri 2. 



Sec 318, 319, 

 320 



Giorgia. 



