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nese, whose agency shall include the reservations at Wapaghkonetta, atLewistown, at Hog creek, and at Blanchard’s creek. And one milesquare shall be reserved at Malake for the use of the agent for theShawnese.
And the agent for the Wyandots and Senecas shall occupy such landin the grant at Upper Sandusky, as may be necessary for him and thepersons attached to the agency.
Art. 10. The United States engage to erect a saw-mill and a grist-mill, upon some proper part of the Wyandot reservation, for their use,and to provide and maintain a blacksmith, for the use of the Wyandotsand Senecas, upon the reservation of the Wyandots, and another black-smith, for the use of the Indians at Wapaghkonetta, Hog creek, andLewistown.
Art. 11. The stipulations contained in the treaty of Greenville, rela-tive to the right of the Indians to hunt upon the land hereby ceded,while it continues the property of the United States , shall apply to thistreaty; and the Indians shall, for the same term, enjoy the privilege ofmaking sugar upon the same land, committing no unnecessary wasteupon the trees.
Art. 12. The United States engage to pay, in the course of the yearone thousand eight hundred and eighteen, the amount of the damageswhich were assessed by the authority of the secretary of war, in favourof several tribes and individuals of the Indians, who adhered to thecause of the United States during the late war with great Britain , andwhose property was, in consequence of such adherence, injured or de-stroyed. And it is agreed, that the sums thus assessed shall be paid inspecie, at the places, and to the tribes or individuals, hereinafter men-tioned, being in conformity with the said assessment; that is to say :
To the Wyandots, at Upper Sandusky, four thousand three hundredand nineteen dollars and thirty-nine cents.
To the Senecas, at Lower Sandusky, three thousand nine hundredand eighty-nine dollars and twenty-four cents.
To the Indians at Lewis and Scoutashs towns, twelve hundred andtwenty-seven dollars and fifty cents.
To the Delawares , for the use of the Indians who suffered losses atGreentown and at Jerome’s town, three thousand nine hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty cents, to be paid at Wapaghkonetta.
To the representatives of Hembis, a Delaware Indian, three hundredand forty-eight dollars and fifty cents, to be paid at Wapaghkonetta.
To the Shawnese, an additional sum of four hundred and twenty dol-lars, to be paid at Wapaghkonetta.
To the Senecas, an additional sum of two hundred and nineteen dol-lars, to be paid at Wapaghkonetta.
Art. 13. And whereas the sum of two thousand five hundred dollarshas been paid by the United States to the Shawnese, being one half offive years’ annuities due by the treaty of Fort Industry, and whereasthe Wyandots contend that the whole of the annuity secured by thattreaty is to be paid to them, and a few persons of the Shawnese andSenecas tribes; now, therefore, the commissioners of the United States ,believing that the construction given by the Wyandots to the said treatyis correct, engage that the United States shall pay to the said Wyandottribe in specie, in the course of the year one thousand eight hundredand eighteen, the said sum of two thousand five hundred dollars.
Art. 14. The United States reserve to the proper authority, the rightto make roads through any part of the land granted or reserved by thistreaty; and also to the different agents, the right of establishing taverns
Agent for theWyandots andSenecas to oc-cupy land.
Saw-mill, &c.for Indians.
Rights of hunt-ing and makingsugar.
Ante, p. 49.
Payment undertreaty of FortIndustry.
Ante, p. 87.
Roads, tavernsand ferries.