Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1821-02-27
by AUTHORITY.
JAMES MONROE,

TO all and singular 10 zvhom these FIRE
sents shall come, greeting:
Whereas Treaty was made and con
cluded, between the United States o.
America and the Kickapoo tribe OF In
dams, at Edwardsville, in the state OF H.
inois, on the thirtieth day of July, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and nineteen by commissioners
on the part of the said United States, and
the principal Chiefs and Warriors Of the
said tribe Of Indians, on the part, and in
behalf, of the said tribe; which treaty,
having been communicated TO the Senate,
was SO far sanctioned by that body, that
advice and consent was given to It's rati-
lication, upon condition that certain spe-
cited amendments should be made there
in: And whereas by Treaty, supple
menta.y to, and amendatory of, the alore-
said Treaty, made and concluded at St.
Louis, in Missouri, by the same Com
missioners on the part of the United
States, and the Chiefs and Warriors of
the Kickapoo tribe, on the nineteenth
day OF July, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and twenty, the
amendments designated have been ef-
lected, to the satisfaction Of the Senate CT
the United States, as expressed in heir
resolution OF the twenty-nlnth day of De-
cember now last past, referring tie first
mentioned treaty without further act to
the President of the United States, for
ratification the said Treaties being in
the words following, to-wit:
II Treaty, made aud concluded ct Ed
zvQrdStille, in tie state Of Illinois, be-
tween .4uguste Chouteau and Benia.
min Stephenson, Commissioners on
TIE Part and 6ehaT Of the United
States Of .dmerica, cfthe one hayt, and
The Undersigned, hrincihai chicfs a.ld
Uarriors Qfthe Eickahoo tribe Qf1n-
dams, on tie iarf and beAaLf Of said
tribe, ofthe other hart:
Art. !. The undersigned Chiefs and
Warriors, for themselves and their said
tribe, for and in consideration of the
promises and stipulations hereinafter
made, do hereby cede and relinquish to
the United States, forever, all their right,
interest, and title, Of, in, and to, the fol-
lowing tracts of land, viz:
All their land on the south east side
ofthe Wabash river, iOcindmg the prin-
cipal village in which their ancestors
formerly resided, consisting OF a iafgV
tract, to which they have had from time
imme,noria!, and now have, a just right,
that they have never heretofore ceded,
or otherwise disposed OF, in any manner
whatever.
Also, all the land within the following
boundaries, viz. Beginning on the Wa
bash river, at the upper point Of til>ir
ccssion, made BY the second article Of
their treaty al Vincennes, on the 9Th De-
cembcr, 1909; running thence, north
westw ardiy, TO the dividing line between
the states of Illinois and Indiana thence,
along said line, to the Kankakee river;
thence, with said river, to the Illinois
river; thence, down the latter, 10 its
mouth thence, with direct line, to the
northwest corner OF the Vincennes tract,
as recognized in the treaty with the Pr
ankeshaw tribe of Indians, at Vincennes,
on t4e s0,h December, 1905; and
thence, with the western and northern
boundaries Of the cessions heretofore
made by the said Kickapoo tribe Of In
dams, to the beginning. OF which last
described tract of land the said Kicka.
poo tribe claim large portion, by de-
scent, from their ancestors, and the ba-
lance by conquest from the Illinois Da-
ton, and uninterrupted possession for
more than halfa century.
| Art 2. The said tribe hereby confirm
all their former treaties with the United
States, and reIinquish to them all claim
to every portion oftheir lands which may
have been coded by any other tribe or
tribes, and all and every demand which
they might have had, in consequence of
the second article ofthe treaty made with
the Pottowatamy nation of Indians, at St.
Mary's, on the I'd October, 1873
Art. 3. The said tribe acknowledge
themselves now TO be, and promise to
continue, under the protection of the
United States of America, and of no
other nation, power, or sovereign, what
ever.
Art. 4. The said tribe release the
United States from all obligations i'm
posed by any treaties heretofore made
with them.
| Art. S. The United States, in lieu oil
all former stipulations, and in considera'
ton of cessions of land heretofore made
by the said tribe, promise TO pay them
at their town on the waters of the Usage
river, two thousand dollars, in silver an
nually, for fifteen successive years.
Art. 6. In consideration of the cessior