Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1804-02-18

| Massac OF kaskaskia. and the frs; cost oi
| The goods III the Sea Port where they NAV
| be procured, is alone TO be CHARGED To The.
SAID tribe free from the cost of transport
| alton, or any other contingent expense.
Whenever the said tribe may choose to
receive money, provisions or domestic g.
nimals for the whole or in par; of the said
annuity, the same shall be delivered at
the townot haskasiia. The United States
will also cause to be built, house suitable
Tor the accommodation of the Chief of the
SAID tribe, and will enclose for their use a
field not exceeding one hundred acres
with good and sufficient fence. And
whereas the greater part Of said tribe have
been baptized and received into the Ca.
taoiic Church TO which they are much at
tached, the United States will give annu.
all; tor seven years one hundred dollars
towards the support OF a priest OF that re-
hgion, who will engage TO perform for.
the said tribe, the duties of his Office, and
also to Instruct as many of their children
as possible in the rudiments of Literature.
And The United States vii, further give
The sum ot three hundred dollars to assist
the SAID tribe in the erection of a Church.
The supulations made i'm this and the pre-
ceding articles together with the sum OF
live hundred and eighty dollars which is
now paid or assured to be paid for the said
tribe for the purpose Of procuring some
necessary articles and TO relieve them from
debts which they have heretofore CONTRACT.
ed, is considered as 4 full and ample COM
pensaIIon Tor the REIMBURSEMENT made TO
the United States in the first article.
Art. 4th. The United States reserve to
themselves the right at any future period
Of dividing the annuity now pumsed TO
the SAID tribe among the several families
sheFeof' reserVtn5 always a suitable sum
Tor the Great Chief and his family.
Art. 5th. And to the end that the Unit
ed States may be enabled to fix with the
other Indian tribes, boundary between
their respective claims, the Chiefs and
head Warriors of the SAID Kaskaskia tribe.
90 hereby declare that the rigntful claim
IS as follows, viz. Beginning at the con-
Thence OF the Ohio and the Mississippi,
thence up the Oh!o 10 the mouth OF the
Saline Greek about twelve miles below
the mouth of the Wabash, thence along
the Dividing Ridge between the said
Greek and the Wabash until it comes TO
the general dividing Ridge between the
waters which fall into the Wabash and
those which fall into the Kaskaskia river,
and thence along the said Ridge until It
reaches the waters which fall into the H.
.nois River, thence in direct course to
the mouth Of the II nois River, and thence
down the Mississippi to the beginning.
Art 9th. AS long as the lands which
have been coded by this treaty shall con.
tinue to be the property of the United
States, the said tribe shall have the pri.
vilege of living and hunting upon them
IN the same manner that they have hiIher-
10 done.
Art. 7lh. This treaty is to be in force
and binding upon the said parties as soon
as it shall be ratified by the President and
Senate of the United States.
In WITNESS whereof the said Commits
sioncr PIenipotentiary and the head Chiefs
and Warriors of the said Kaskaskia tribe
of Indians have bereupto set their hands
and afiixed their seals the thirteenth day
Of August, III the year of our Lord enc
thousand eight hundred and three, and OF
the Independence of the United States the
eighth.
WILLIAM Henry HhRRIscN, (seaI.)
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