iu the year 1788," with the exception of four tracts of land. Bat it was stated to the Indians that these reservations were not made "to annoy or impose the smallest degree of restraint on them in the quiet enjoyment and full possession of their lands," but simply to "connect the settlements of the people of the United States," and "to prove convenient and advantageous to the different tribes of Indiaus residing and hunting in their vicinity."

The fifth Article of the treaty is: "To prevent any misun- derstanding about the Indian lands now relinquished by the United States, it is explicitly declared that the meaning of that relinquishment is this: that the Indian tribes who have a right to those lands are quictly to enjoy them-hunting, planting, and dwelling thereon so long as they please without any moles- tation from the United States; but when those tribes, or any of them, shall be disposed them, they are to he sold only to the United States; and un- til such sale the United States will protcet all the said Indian tribes in the quiet enjoyment of their lands against all eitizens of the United States, and against all other white persous who intrnde on the same.

The sixth Article reiterates the old pledge, proved by the last three years to be so worthless-that, "If any citizen of the United States, or any other white person or persons, shall to sell their lands, or auy part of presume to settle upon the lands now United Statcs, such citizen or other person shall be out of relinquished by the the protection of the United States; and the Indian iribe on whose land the settlement may be made may drive off the settler, or punish him in such manner as they shall think fit,"

The seventh Article gives the Indians the liberty "to hunt within the territory and lands which they have now ceded to the United States, without hinderanee or molestation, so long as they demean themselves peaceably."

The United States agreed to pay to the Indians twenty