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TREATY WITH THE DELAWARES , ETC. 1805.

Putawatimies,&c. acknow-ledge the rightof the Dela-wares to sell,&c.

Annuities, howto be paid.

Treaty, whento take effect.

consider them as joint owners of all the country on the Wabash and itswaters, above the Vincennes tract, and which has not been ceded to theUnited States , by this or any former treaty ; and they do farther engagethat they will not purchase any part of the said country without theconsent of each of the said tribes. Provided always, That nothing inthis section contained, shall in any manner weaken or destroy any claimwhich the Kickapoos, who are not represented at this treaty, may haveto the country they now occupy on the Vermillion river.

Art. V. The Putawatimies, Miami , Eel River, and Wea tribes,explicitly acknowledge the right of the Delawares to sell the tract ofland conveyed to the United States by the treaty of the eighteenth dayof August, eighteen hundred and four, which tract was given by thePiankashaws to the Delawares , about thirty-seven years ago.

Art. VI. The annuities herein stipulated to be paid by the UnitedStates , shall be delivered in the same manner, and under the same con-ditions as those which the said tribes have heretofore received.

Art. VII. This treaty shall be in force and obligatory on the con-tracting parties as soon as the same shall have been ratified by the Pre-sident, by, and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the UnitedStates .

In testimony whereof, The said commissioner plenipotentiary ofthe United States , and the sachems, chiefs, and head men of thesaid tribes, have hereunto set their hands and affixed their seals.Done at Grouseland, near Vincennes , on the twenty-first day ofAugust, in the year eighteen hundred and five; and of the inde-pendence of the United States the thirtieth.

WM. H. HARRISON.

Delawares .

Hocking Pomskon,

Keeklawhenund, or William Anderson,Allime, or White Eyes,

Tomague, or Beaver.

Puttawatimies.

Mashekanochquah, or Little Turtle ,Richard ville.

Eel River.

Waronecana, or Night Stander,Metausauner, or Sam,

Archekatauh, or Earth .

Weas.

Assonnonquah, or Labossiere,Misquaconaqua, or Painted Pole,Ohequanah, or Little Eyes.

Delaware.

Missenewand, or Captain Bullet.

Topanepee,

Lishahecon,

Wenameck.

Miamies.

Kakonweconner, or Long Legs,

Missingguimeschan, or Owl,

Wabsier, or White Skin,

Done in the presence of, B. Parke, Secretary to the Commissioner. Jno. Gibson,Secretary Indiana Territory. John Griffin, a judge of the Indiana Territory. B. Cham-bers, President of the Council. Jesse B. Thomas, Speaker of the House of Repre-sentatives. Jno. Rice Jones, Sami: Gwathmey, Pierre Menard, Members of the Le-gislative Council Indiana Territory. Davis Floyd, Shadrack Bond , William Biggs,John Johnson, Members of the House of Representatives Indiana Territory. W.Wells, Agent of Indian Affairs. Vigo, Colonel of Knox county militia. JohnConner, Joseph Barrout, Sworn Interpreters.

To the Indian names are subjoined a mark and seal.

ADDITIONAL ARTICLE.

It is the intention of the contracting parties, that the boundary lineherein directed to be run from the north east corner of the Vincennes