Southern shield., 1850-12-14

fded in the city of Washington, on the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, by and between ArdavanS Lough- cry, Commissioner especially appointed by 4he President of the United States, of tbe one part, and the undersigned, Head Chiei and Deputies of the Wyandot Tribe of lndi- ans, duly authorized and empowered to act for their tribe, of the other part, which treaty is in the wolds following, to wit:
 Articles of C ConUenti0n concluded in the city
 of Washua gton, Mis first day of April, one
 housand eight Hundred med .ftty, by aad
 6etaoeen .4rdauan s. Loughery, Commits
 sioner especially appointed by the President
 ofthe United States, and the undersi gned
 Head Chief and Deputies of the Uyandot
 Tribe of Indians, duly authorised and en,
 posoered 10 act tor their tribe.
 lWhereas the people composing the Wy andot tribe or nation of Indians, have manifested an anxious desire 10 extnguish the tribal or national character and become citizens of the United States-believing their condition will, thereby, not only De ameiorated, but their welfare and prosper ity greatly promoted. They have arrived at this conviction in view of the fact that a new territory will, at no distant period, be organized by the Government of the United States, which will embrace within it's limits their present lands and possessions, and thus they will again be surrounded by citi- zens of the United States. After full con- sultation with their people. and upon mature reflection, the undersigned, representatives of the Wyandot nation, entertain the belief, that the evil effects always to be apprehend- ed from such state of things, will be avoid ed by their becoming citizens of the United States, and having the lands and other prop erty accruing under treaty stipuations, now held in common by their people, fairly and equally divided among the individual own CTS, and secured to them in seUerdHy:
 And whereas, by the first article of the treaty concluded between the United States and the Wyandot nation or tribe of lndi- ans, on the l7th day of March one thousand eight hundred and torty-two, the said na- ton ceded and relinquished 10 the United States, all the lands and possessions owned or claimed by them, within the limits of the States of Ohio and Michgan-in considera- ton of which cession, the United States, by the second article of the treaty aforesaid supuiate ana agree tO gIuIr riIo " arI- dot nation tract of land west of the Mis- sissippi river, to contain one hundred and forty y-eight thousand acres and to be loca- ted upon any lands owned by the United States, now set apart, or may in future set apart, for Indian use, and not already as signed 10 any other tribe or nation" And in further consideration of the aforesaid ces- sion by the Wyandot nation, the United States by the third and succeeding articles of said treaty, agree to "pay the Wyandot nation a perpetual annuity of seventeen thousand five hundred dollars ($l7 7,5O0) in specie," besides making other provision for the benefit oi said nation, as follows: Black smith and assistant, $750--iron and steel for shop, S27O-and' for education purposes, $5O0-all of which to be furnished and paid annually. It being expressly stipulated in the third article of the treaty before men mentioned, that the annuity of seventeen thousand five hundred dollars, should h. clude "aN fo7'mer annuities."
 And, whereas, the Wyandot tribe of in- dians were not put in possession of the one hundred and forty-eight thousand acres of land as stipulated in the second article of the treaty aforesaid; and they aver that in consequence of the United States having failed to comply with that stipulation, by not designating and conveying to them country fit for farming purposes and suited to their wants, they were compelled to purchase home, of which they were then destitute, from another tribe of Indians. Accordingly on the fourteenth day of De- cember, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, they entered into contract with the Delaware nation of Indians, by which they purchased of the Aforementioned nation, tract of land containing thirty-six sections, Cor twenty-three thousand and forty acresD and had granted to them, as a donation, three sections, (or nineteen hun dred and twenty acres,) in addition as set forth in the lst and 2d articles of said con. tract or treaty, wherein these two tracts or sections of land are described as follows. "Three sections of land, containing six hun. dred and forty acres each, lying and being situated at the point of the junction of the Missouri and Kansas rivers"--and the "tbir- ty-six sections of land, each containing GAO acres, situated between the aforesaid Mis- souri and Kansas rivers, and adjoining on the west the aforesaid three donated sec tions, making in all thirty-nine sections of land, bounded as follows, viz: Commencing at the point at the junction of the afore- said Missouri and Kansas rivers, running west along the Kansas river sufficiently faI to include the aforesaid thirty-nine sections: thence running north to the Missouri river; thence down the said river with its mean ders to the place of beginning; to be sur yeyed in as near square form as the rivers and territory ceded will admit of"
 And whereas this said contract or treatv