SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR THE ST. REGIS.

"Article 9. It is agreed with the American party of the St. Regis

Indians, that the United States will pay to the said tribe, on their

removal west, or at such time as the President shall appoint, the sum of

five thousand dollars, as a remuneration for moneys laid out by the said

tribe and services rendered by their chiefs and agents in securing the

title to the Green Bay lands, and in removal to the same, to be

apportioned out to the several claimants by the chiefs of the said party,

and a United States commissioner, as may be deemed by them equitable and

just. If is further agreed that the following reservation of land shall

be made to the Rev. Eleazar Williams of said tribe, which he claims in

his own right and that of his wife, which he is to hold in fee simple by

patent from the President, with full power and authority to sell and

dispose of the same, to-wit. Beginning at a point in the west bank of the

Fox River, thirteen chains above the old mill-dam at the rapids of the

little Kockalin, thence north fifty-two degrees and thirty minutes west,

two hundred and forty chains, thence north thirty-seven degrees and

thirty minutes east, two hundred chains, thence south fifty-two degrees

and thirty minutes east, two hundred and forty chains to the bank of the

Fox river, thence up along the bank of the Fox river to the place of

beginning."

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