(No. 19.)—A Resolution to sanction an Agreement made between the Wyandotts and Delawares for the Purchase of certain Lands by the former, of the latter Tribe of Indians.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the agreement, in writing, between the Delaware nation of Indians and the Wyandott nation of Indians, made and entered into on the fourteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and forty-three, for the purchase of certain lands by the latter, of the former tribe of Indians, and which said agreement, in writing, is as follows:

“Whereas, from a long and intimate acquaintance, and the ardent friendship which has for a great many years existed between the Delawares and Wyandotts, and from a mutual desire that the same feeling shall continue and be more strengthened by becoming near neighbors to each other; therefore the said parties, the Delawares

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on one side, and the Wyandotts on the other, in full council assembled, have agreed, and do agree, to the following stipulations, to wit:—

Article 1. The Delaware nation of Indians, residing between the Missouri and Kansas Rivers, being very anxious to have their uncles, the Wyandotts, to settle and reside near them, do hereby donate, grant, and quitclaim forever, to the Wyandott nation, three sections of land, containing six hundred and forty acres each, lying and being situated at the point of the junction of the Missouri and Kansas Rivers.

Article 2. The Delaware Chiefs, for themselves and by the unanimous consent of their people, do hereby cede, grant, quitclaim to the Wyandott nation, and their heirs forever, thirty-six sections of land, each containing six hundred and forty acres, situated between the aforesaid Missouri and Kansas Rivers, and adjoining on the west the aforesaid three donated sections, making in all thirty-nine sections of land, bounded as follows, viz.: Commencing at the point at the junction of the aforesaid Missouri and Kansas Rivers, running west along the Kansas River sufficiently far to include the aforesaid thirty-nine sections; thence running north to the Missouri River; thence down the said river with its meanders to the place of beginning; to be surveyed in as near a square form as the rivers and territory ceded will admit of.

Article 3. In consideration of the foregoing donation and cession of land, the Wyandott chiefs bind themselves, successors in office, and their people, to pay to the Delaware nation of Indians forty-six thousand and eighty dollars, as follows, viz.; six thousand and eight dollars to be paid the year eighteen hundred and forty-four, and four thousand dollars annually thereafter for ten years.

Article 4. It is hereby distinctly understood, between the contracting parties, that the aforesaid agreement shall not be binding or obligatory until the President of the United States shall have approved the same, and caused it to be recorded in the War Department.

In testimony whereof, we, the chiefs and headmen of the Delaware nation, and the chiefs and headmen of the Wyandott nation, have, this fourteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and forty-three, set our signatures.

Signed in open council in presence of

be, and the same is hereby, confirmed: Provided, That the Wyandott Indian nation shall take no better right or interest in and to said lands than is now vested in the Delaware nation of Indians.

Approved, July 25, 1848.