Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-10-12

n addition forth In the ls and Cd articles of said con.
rsct treaty. wherein these two tracts sections Of land
are described follows Three sections Of land containing
x hundred and forty EACH lying and being used At
The point of the junction Of the Missouri and Kansas rivers
and the "thysx sections Of land each containing $40
situated between the aforesaid Missouri and Ksnsas
rivers and adjoining the the aforesaid three donated
sections, makng In a thynn sections OF land, bounded
follows, viz Commencing the point at the junction Of
the aforesaid Missouri and Kansas rivers running along
the Kansas river sufficiently far include the aforesaid thirty
nine sections thence running north to the Missouri nve
thence down the said river with its meande to the place OF
beginning; to be surveyed in near square fern as the
rivers and territory ceded will admit Of"
And whereas this said contract treaty was ratified and
confirmed by the United States by joint resolution Of Con-
following proUiso That the Wyandot Indian nation shall
take better right interest and to said lands than Is
noeo sested IN the DeA,oare nation Of Indians.
The Representatives Of the Wyando nation, therefore.
present claim against the United States for the price OF one
hundred and yeght thousand Of land granted BY the
I'd article of the aforesaid treaty Of March H. lS42 hxng
that price at dollar and twenty-five cents per acre. and
which claim, they conceive, strengthened not rendered
Valid by the recognition Of their purchase from the Delaware
Indians the part Of the United States shown by the re-
solution conmat y thereof above cited And they now ask
that the Of hundred and eighfve thousand dollars
be allowed and paid the Wyando people In Communication
of said claim:
And whereas the Commissioners on behalf Of the United
Sates having carefully and aenvey examined the aPpca-
tion presented to him behalf Of the Wyando nation, both
in regard to their desire to become citizens OF the United
States and of their claim for payment In money for the lands
granted them by the treaty Of 1912 and having also
amned the public documents and other proofs having refer
ence to the subject he induced to beieve that the
Wyandot people have far advanced in civilization to be
capable, generally of managing their own affairs and are
qualified and calculated to become useful citizens large po
ton whereof being already engaged in agricultural pursus
and secondly that they have equitable claim the Unit
cd States for the value of the lands granted to them by the
treaty Of lS42 aforesaid but Of which lands they not
possessed in compliance with the spuaons OF said treaty
In arriving this conclusion however, it s expressly UNDER
stood that be considered admission by the
United States Of either the policy expedency Of committing
lands granted to Indian tribes under treaty spuatons for
money, in fixing the value of such lands to
precedent hereafter But under the peculiar circumstances
Of this case and especially in view Of the Wyandot tribe of
Indians agreeing to extngush their national existence and
become citizens Of the United States thereby enqushng all
claims now held In their national collective capacity against
the United States, the Commissioner aforesaid has agreed with
the Wyandot Chief and Deputies parties hereto, to conclude
the following articles, to ait:
Art l. For and in consideration Of the stipulaons
forth in the following articles the Wyandot tribe nation Of
Indians hereby cede renquh and forever quit claim TO the
United States all the right, title and interest in the lands they
possess and occupy, have possessed and held
common, either original occupants Of the SOIL acquired
by virtue of treaty stpuations.
ration Of the spuatons contained in the following articles,
hereby spuae and agree that their existence nation
tribe shall termnse and become extinct upon the ratification
Of this treaty by the President and Senate Of the United Sate
and by the Chiefs and National Council Of their nation And
in like do they relnqush all claims held by the Wy
ando people in their national collective capacity against the
United States either account Of annues arising out Of
treaty spuations, Of any other character description
whatsoever and that, after the ratification Of this treaty
the before mentioned they will have claim be
recognised by the Government of the United States in their
tribal national capacity, except far may be necessary
to carry into effect the several spuatons Of this treaty
Art g. In consideration Of the foregoing grants and cond
tons, and for the purpose Of gratifying the audabe desire
pressed by the Wyandot people to become citizens Of Unit
ed States is hereby stipulated and agreed that the United
States will pay them 1.-THE Wyandot peope) for the hun
dred and thousand Of land promised to them
by the treaty Of March II, ls42 the Of dollar and
twenty-five cents per acre. amounting to the of hum
dred and eghtyve thousand dollars in the follow
TO c One hundred thousand dollars shall be invested in
treaty at the rate of five per cent per annum edeemabe at
the pleasure of the Government of the United Sates cer
Gates Of which stock shall be issued to the individuals
composing the Wyandot nation in the and form here
matter prescribed And for the purpose Of enabling the Wy
ando Indians preparatory to their becoming citizens of the
United States to pay and exnguh all their just debts and
liabilities contracted in their national collective capacity
either account of the purchase Of their lands from the Della
ware nation or otherwise, the balance Of thousand
dollars SHALL upon the ratification Of this treaty by the Senate
be advanced by the United States in specie the Chief and
Deputies sgners hereto upon the draft drafts drawn by
them any Of them. And the said Chief and Depu-
ties hereby made accountable for the faithful application of
this fund.- each and every draft order they may draw upon
it will explicitly the and character Of the claim
and show that the debt debts fairly contracted by
properly constituted authorities of the Wyandot nation, and
account of the business of said nation and after discharg
ing all the national debts and liabilities of their tribe they viii
distribute the balance if any, among their people per capita
Art. A. The United States further agree to Communication
of the annuity and other claims of the Wyandot Indians
arising out of former treaty spuaons and which to be
considered being all embraced i the treaty of March H.
ls42 These annuities and other claims, producing
nua payment to the Wyandot nation Of eighteen thousand
nine hundred and ninety dollars, hereby commued for
the sum of three hundred and seventy thousand eight
hundred dollars ($379, ,s00 And this Of three hum
ded and sevenynne thousand eight hundred dollars shall
be added to the of hundred thousand dollars spu
lated to be funded by the Sd article of this treaty and the a
gegate of four hundred and seventy thousand
eight hundred dollars shall constitute general fund.- to be
equally divided among the Wyando people, and certificates
OF stock to be issued therefor mentioned in the preceding
arce SO that each and every Wyando citizen shall have
equal share of the property thus to be divided
Art 5. The Wyandot tribe nation having by the first
article Of this treaty. extngushed their Indian occupant
title to all lands claimed occupied by them, the United
ates for the consideration herenbere set FORTH do hereby
letrocede convey, and guaranty in simple to the Wyan
dot people all the lands conveyed intended to be conveyed
to them by the Delaware nation in the treaty contract
tered into the I4h of December ls42 and ratified by the
President and Congress Of the United Saes July 25 lS4S
fully shown in the preamble to this treaty, said tract
tracts of land containing thynine sections twenty four
thousand nine hundred and sixty And the United
States accurate survey of the boundary of
hese lands to be made after the ratification Of this
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