Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-10-12
TREATY WITH THE wYANDoT INDIANS.

81. Is
MILLARD FILLMORE, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
..,as STATES OF AMERICA:
To all and singular TO ioho these presents shall come,
greeting.
Whereas Treaty made and concluded in the city Of
Washington the first day Of April one thousand eight
hundred and fifty, by and between ARDAvAs s. LoueHERr,
Commissioner especially appointed by the President Of the
United States, of the part and the undersigned, Head
Chief and Deputies Of the Wyandot Tribe Of Indians duly
authorized and empowered act for their be Of the other
part which treaty is in the words following, to wit:
articles ofa Conuenon concluded in the city of Washing-
ton, this first day Of april thousand eight hundred
and fffy, by and bet,veen Ardapan S. Loueherv Com
United States and the undersigned, Head Chief and
Deputies of the Wyandot tribe of Indians, duly at.-
torised and empowered to act for their tribe:
Whereas the people composing the Wyandot tribe
ton Of Indians have manifested anxious desire to exn
gush their tribal national character and become citizens
Of the United States, believing their condition will thereby
only be aeoated, but their welfare and prosperity greatly
promoted, they have arrived this conviction ia of the
fact that Territory will distant PERIOD be orga-
nzed by the Government Of the United States which will
embrace within its limits their present lands and possessions
and thus they will again be surrounded by citizens of the
United States after full consultation with their people, and
upon mature reflection the undersigned representatives of the
Wyandot nation entertain the belief that the evil effects
ways to be apprehended from such state Of things will be
avoided by their becoming citizens of the United Sates and
having the lands and other property accrung under treaty
stpuations, held in by their people, fairly and
equally divided among the individual owners and secured to
them in sererahy;
And whereas by the first article of the treaty concluded
between the United States and the Wyandot nation tribe
of Indians the 18th day of March, thousand eight
hundred and forty two, the said nation ceded and renqush
ed the United States all the lands and owned
claimed by them within the limits of the States of Ohio
and Michigan, consideration of which cssson the United
States by the second article of the treaty aforesaid spulae
and agree to grant the Wyandot nation tract Of land
of the Mississippi river, to contain hundred and
forty EIGHT thousand acres and to be located upon any lands
owned by the United States set apart may in future
apart for Indian uss and not already assigned to any
other tribe or nation and in further consideration Of the
aforesaid cesson by the Wyandot naton the United States
by the third and succeeding articles Of said treaty, agree
pay the Wyandot nation perpetual annuity of seventeen
thousand FIVE hundred dollars Sl7, ,500) in SPECIE besides
making other provision for the benefit of said nation, fol-
lows Blacksmith and assistant $3.50 iron and steel for
shop, S270 and for education purposes, S500-a OF which
to be furnished and paid annuayt being expressly stpu-
lated in the third article Of the treaty before mentioned that
the annuity of seventeen thousand five hundred dollars should
include " all former annuities"
And whereas the Wyandot tribe of Indians not put
In possession Of the hundred and thousand
acres OF land stipulated in the second article Of the treaty
aforesaid and they that consequence Of the United
states having failed to comply with that stipulation by not
designating and conveying to them country 6 for farming
purposes and suited to their wants. they compelled to
purchase home of which they were then desti,ue from
announcer uioe OF Indians Accordingly, the fourteenth day
of December one thousand eight hundred and
tney entered into contract with the Delaware nation of In
dan by which they purchased Of the nation
tract OF land containing thysx sections Cor twenty three
thousand and forty and had granted to then as do
nsuon three sections hundred and twenty acres