L. L. Langhan, secretary to the Francis Jansen, James Riley, interpreter, Francois Mouton, John Kenzie, interpreter, Louis Bufait, Indian interpre- J. Bts. Chandonnai, interpreter, Antoine Bondi, Jean Bt. Massac, his x mark. MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND OTHER PAPERS. EXHIBIT 223. Extract from Seventh Annual Message of President Madison, December 5, 1815.1 In conformity with the articles in the treaty of Ghent relating to the Indians, as well as with a view to the tranquillity of our western and northwestern frontiers, measures were taken to establish an immediate peace with the several tribes who had been 'Richardson's Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897, Vol. I, p. 562 at 563. engaged in hostilities against the United States. Such of them as were invited to Detroit acceded readily to a renewal of the former treaties of friendship. Of the other tribes who were invited to a station on the Mississippi the greater number have also accepted the peace offered to them. The residue, consisting of the more distant tribes or parts of tribes, remain to be brought over by further explanations, or by such other means as may be adapted to the dispositions they may finally disclose. The Indian tribes within and bordering on the southern frontier, whom a cruel war on their part had compelled us to chastise into peace, have latterly shown a restlessness which has called for preparatory measures for repressing it, and for protecting the commissioners engaged in carrying the terms of the peace into execution. EXHIBIT 224. Statement Transmitted to the President by the Secretary of War, and Communicated to the Senate April 10, 1818.1 DEPARTMENT OF WAR, April 1, 1818. The Secretary of War, to whom was referred the resolution of the Senate, requesting the President of the United States to cause to be laid before them "a list of the names of the several agents of Indian affairs, and of the agents of Indian trading-houses, together with the pay and emoluments of each of said agents,' has the honor to transmit papers A and B, which furnish the information required by the resolution. THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. J. C. CALHOUN. 'American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. II, p. 163. [Enclosure.] A. List of Indian Agents, with the Salary, &c. allowed to each. NOTE.-Indian agents have been allowed rations, or money in lieu thereof, in addition to their annual compensation; and, in some cases, an allowance has been made for a servant and forage for a horse. Department of War, April 1, 1818. *$365 in lieu of subsistence,. **1 ration, or $72 per annum in lieu thereof. [Appearing in original text]. EXHIBIT 225. Secretary of War to Governor Lewis Cass.1 Department OF WAR, August 19, 1818. SIR: I enclose an extract of a letter from Mr. Ogden, of New York, in relation to the removal of the Six Nations of Indians, and request your attention to the subject when you meet the Indians for the purpose of entering into negotiations with them, agreeably to the instructions from this Department; and ascertain whether the Indians on Fox river and its vicinity, or any of the tribes inhabiting the country north of the State of Indiana and Illinois Territory are disposed to make a grant of lands to the Six Nations, and permit them to reside among them. In the event of any of them assenting to the proposal, you will report it to this Department, when you will be instructed to make any arrangements that may be necessary to facilitate the removal of the Six Nations to the country thus selected for their future residence, provided it meets their approbation. I have the honor to be, &c. Governor LEWIS CASS, Detroit. J. C. CALHOUN. EXHIBIT 226. Report on the Claim of the Stockbridge Indians by Mr. Leake.? CLAIM OF THE STOCKBRIDGE INDIANS. Communicated to the Senate, April 13, 1820. Mr. LEAKE, from the committee to whom was referred the bill entitled "An act for the relief of Jacob Konkopot and others, of the nation of Stockbridge Indians, residing in the State of New York," made the following report: That the petitioners state that, in the year 1813, in consequence of an invitation from the Secretary of War, accompanied with a promise that they should be fed, paid, and supplied as the troops 1American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. II, p. 176. 2American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. II, p. 206. of the United States, they entered into the service of the United States some time in September of that year, and served about two months under the command of General Wilkinson; that they have never received any compensation for said service, except forty dollars; they, therefore, pray relief. The evidence in support of this claim is a contract entered into between J. W. Jacobs, on the part of the petitioners, and General Wilkinson, on the part of the United States, by which it was stipulated that the petitioners, consisting of John W. Jacobs, who was made captain, Jacob Konkopot, lieutenant, and thirtyfive warriors, should serve in the army of the United States for the term of two months. * EXHIBIT 227. Governor Lewis Cass to the Secretary of War.1 Hon. JOHN C. CALHOUN, WASHINGTON, October 17, 1821. SIR: Some time since I submitted to the War Department the peculiarity of my situation as superintendent of Indian Affairs, and the increased expense to which I was rendered liable by my local position and by the circumstances of the times. The letters which I had the honor to submit, of October 25th, 1814, and of October 21st, 1815, were in answer to these representations. It becomes my duty now, when requesting a definite allowance under these instructions, to state the circumstances which render this measure proper, that you may be the better enabled to determine what sums shall be allowed. During the whole period of the war, and for more than two years succeeding its termination, the Territory of Michigan was in a state of absolute exhaustion. The events there were at first so disastrous, and the contest for the possession of the country was so long and severe, that its resources were soon destroyed. Its reduced population, totally inadequate to the production of 1American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. II, p. 314. |