TREATY WITH THE KASKASKIAS. 1803.
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field not exceeding one hundred acres with a good and sufficient fence.And whereas, The greater part of the said tribe have been baptised andreceived into the Catholic church to which they are much attached, theUnited States will give annually for seven years one hundred dollarstowards the support of a priest of that religion, who will engage to per-form for the said tribe the duties of his office and also to instruct asmany of their children as possible in the rudiments of literature. Andthe United States will further give the sum of three hundred dollars toassist the said tribe in the erection of a church. The stipulations madein this and the preceding article, together with the sum of five hundredand eighty dollars, which is now paid or assured to be paid for the saidtribe for the purpose of procuring some necessary articles, and to re-lieve them from debts which they have heretofore contracted, is con-sidered as a full and ample compensation for the relinquishment madeto the United States in the first article.
Art. 4th. The United States reserve to themselves the right at anyfuture period of dividing the annuity now promised to the said tribeamongst the several families thereof, reserving always a suitable sum forthe great chief and his family.
Art. 5th. And to the end that the United States may be enabled tofix with the other Indian tribes a boundary between their respectiveclaims, the chiefs and head warriors of the said Kaskaskia tribe dohereby declare that their rightfull claim is as follows, viz — Beginningat the confluence of the Ohio and the Mississippi, thence up the Ohio to the mouth of the Saline creek, about twelve miles below the mouthof the Wabash, thence along the dividing ridge between the said creekand the Wabash untill it comes to the general dividing ridge betweenthe waters which fall into the Wabash, and those which fall into theKaskaskia river; and thence along the said ridge untill it reaches thewaters which fall into the Illinois river, thence in a direct course to themouth of the Illinois river, and thence down the Mississippi to the be-ginning.
Art. 6th. As long as the lands which have been ceded by this treatyshall continue to be the property of the United States , the said tribeshall have the priviledge of living and hunting upon them in the samemanner that they have hitherto done.
Art. 7th. This treaty is to be in force and binding upon the saidparties, as soon as it shall be ratified by the President and Senate of theUnited States .
In witness whereof, The said commissioner plenipotentiary andthe head chiefs and warriors of the said Kaskaskia tribe of Indianshave hereunto set their hands and affixed their seals, the thirteenthday of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundredand three, and of the independence of the United States thetwenty-eighth.
Jean Baptiste Ducoigne, Ocksinga a Mitchigamian,
Pedagouge, , Kee-tin-sa a Cahokian.
Nicolas or Nicholas,
LOUIS DECOUCIGNE.
Sealed and delivered (the words “ and thence along the said ridge” between thethird and fourth lines of the fifth article being first interlined) in the presence of Jno.Rice Jones, Secretary to the Commissioner. Henry Vanderburg, one of the Judgesof the Indiana Territory. T. F. Rivet , Indian Missionary. Vigo, Colonel of Knoxcounty Militia. Cornelius Lyman, Capt. 1st inft. regt. Jas. Johnson, of IndianaTerritory. B. Parker, of the Indiana Territory. Joseph Barron, Interpreter.
To the Indian names are subjoined a mark and seal.
Boundaries
fixed.
Indians mayhunt, &c. onceded lands.
When to takeeffect.