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INDIAN LAND CESSIONS IN THE UNITED STATES 



[ETU. AXX. 18 



SCHEDULE OF INDIAN 



Ulicre or how 

 concluded 



Vesci'iption of ccsaion or reservation 



1831 



Fell, f 



Wasbingtou, 

 D. C. 



Stat. L., Menomini . 

 vii,342. 



Wasliingtuii, ; Stat. L., SenekaofSan- 

 D. C. ^•II,34»<. dusky river. 



the W. side of Fox river will remain to them as heretofore 

 for a bimtirg grounil until the President of the U. S. .shall 

 deem it expedient to extinguish their title. In that case the 

 Menonionees promise to surrender it immediately upon heiug 

 notitied of the desire of the Government to possess it. 

 The provisions of the loregoing treaty were ratified by the 

 U. S. Senate, subject to the following provisos: 



1. That for the purpose of establishing the rights of the 



New York Indians on a permanent and just footing, 

 the said treaty shall be ratilied with the express 

 understanding that two townships of land on the E. 

 side of Winnebago lake, equal to 4(),0X0 acres, shall 

 be laid oft (to commence at some jioint to be agreed 

 on) for the use of the Stockbridge and Munsee tribes, 

 in lien of the lands occupied by them on the E. side 

 of Fox river. 



2. That there shall be one township of land atlioiuing the 



foregoing, equal to 23,040 acres, laid off and granted 

 for the use of the Brothertown Indians, in lien of the 

 lands occupied by them on the E. side of I- ox river. 



3. That a new line shall be run parallel to the southwest- 



ern boundary line or course of the tract of 500,000 

 acres described in this treaty as above, and set ajiart 

 for the New York Indians, to commence at a point on 

 the W. side of the Fox river 1 mile above the Grand 

 Shute, and at a sufficient distance from the said bound- 

 ary line, as established by the lirst article of this 

 treaty, as .shall comprehend the additional quantity 

 of 200,000 acres on and along the W. side of Fox river 

 without including any of the coniirnied private land 

 claims on the Fox river, and which 200,000 acres shall 

 he a part of the .500,000 acres intended to be set apart 

 for the Six Nations of New York Indiana and the St 

 Kegis tribe, and that an equal quantity to that which 

 is added on the southwestern side shall be taken oft' 

 from the northeastern sideof said tract on the Oconto 

 creek, to be determined by .i commissioner to be aj)- 

 jiointed by the President of the U. S., so that the whole 

 number of acres to be granted to the Six Nations and 

 St Kegis tribe shall not exceed the iinantity originally 

 stipulated by the treaty. 



The Seneca tribe, residing on Sandusky river in the state of 

 Ohio, desiring to exchange their lands for other territory W. 

 of thi' Mississip|)i, it is agreed between them and the U. S. — 



1. That the Seneca tribe cede to the U. S. the lands granted 



to them by patent in fee simple by section 6 of the 

 treaty of Sept. 29, 1817, containing 30,000 acres, and 

 described as follows: "Beginning on the Sandusky 

 river at the lower corner of the section granted to 

 William Spicer; thence down the river on the E.side 

 with the meanders thereof at high-water mark to a 

 ))oint E. of the mouth of Wolf creek; thence and 

 from the beginning E. so far that a N. line will include 

 the quantity of 30,000 acres." Said tribe also cede a 

 tract of land reserved for their use by the second arti- 

 cle of the treaty of Sept. 17, 1818, which tract is 

 described in said treaty as follows: "10,000 acres of 

 land to be laid off on the E. side of the Sandusky 

 river, adjoining the S. side of their reservation of 

 30,000 acres, which begins on the Sandusky river at 

 the lower corner of William Spicer's section, and 

 excluding therel'rom said William Spicer's section," 

 making in the whole of this cession 40,000 acres. 



2. That the U. S. agree to cause said tribe of Senecas, 



numbering about 400, to be removed to the W. of the 

 Mississippi river, and will grant them by patent in 

 fee simple as long as they shall exist as a nation and 

 remain on the same, a tract of land adjacent to the 

 northern boundary of the lands previously granted to 



