alarms by which they are at present harassed, and 1831 to remove the immense evils which result to them therefrom. With this intention, his Excellency the President of the Senate, in charge of the Executive Power of the Republic of Peru, has nominated, as Minister Plenipotentiary near the Government of Bolivia, Señor Don Pedro Antonio de la Torre, Chief of the 1st and 2nd Sections of the Department of Finance; and his Excellency the President of the Bolivian Republic, Señor Miguel Maria de Aguirre, Colonel of the National Guard, Prefect of the Department of the Cochabamba, and Deputy of the National Constituent Assembly; who have agreed upon the fallowing Articles: - ART. I. All the differences which have unhappily occurred between the Governments of Peru and Bolivia, shall be buried in the most perfect and profound oblivion. ART. II. The Armies of both Republics shall commence their retreat from the frontiers, 10 days after the signing of this Convention, 2,000 men being allowed to remain in the Departments of Arequipa, Cuzco, and Puno, of whom 500 only shall be Cavalry. On the part of Bolivia there may, in like manner, be stationed in the Departments of La Paz, Oruro, and Cochabamba, 1,500 men, of whom 400, at most, shall be Cavalry. ART. III. The remaining Troops of the Peruvian Army shall be stationed on the other side of the Apurimac, and those of the Bolivian Army in the Departments of Potosi and Chaquisaca. ART. IV. Immediately upon the Ratification of the present Treaty, the Peruvian Republic shall reduce its Army to the number of 5,000 men, of all arms, not including the Garison of the Fortress of Callao which shall only, be permitted to reside therein, or in Lima, and shall not exceed 1,000 men. ART. V. In like manner the Republic of Bolivia, after the Ratification mentioned in the preceding Article, shall reduce its Army in the number of 3,200 men, of all arms. ART. VI. The reduction of both Armies be 1831 y ótro Ejercito, in mitad del Peruano se estacionará en los Departamentos de Lima, Junin, ó Libertad, y la otra mitad podrá acantonarse en los del Sur de la Capital. Bolivia conservara le mitad del suyo en los Departamentos de la Paz, Oruro, y Cochabamba; la otra mitad, en los de Potosi, Chuquisaca, Santa-Cruz y Tarija. ART. VII. Se nombrarán par uno y otro Gobi erno, Inspectores que recorran los acantonamiculos respectivos para vijilar en el exacto y fiel complimiento de los Articulos precedentes. ART. VIII. Los Gobiernos del Perú y Boliviano solo restablecen las relaciones comerciales, ántes existentes entre los Ciudadanos de ambos Puebles, sino que tambien las protejerán por tudos los medios que estén á sus alcances, dispensándoles el mismo apoyo, y consideraciones de que disfrutan los de la Nacion mas favorecida. ART. IX. Los productos nacionales de uno y otro Estado, pagarán reciprocamente los Derechos de importacion y exportacion, conforme à los reglamen tos vijentes, mientras se celebra el Tratado de comercio. ART. X. Ambos Gobiernos remitirán sus Ministros Plenipotentiarios al lugar que se designe, para concluir, hajo la respetable mediacion de Su Excelencia el Ministro Plenipotenciario de la República de Chile cerca del Perú, Tratados Definitivos de Paz, Amistad, y. Comercio. en ART, XI. La Ratificacion del presente Tratado se hará por el Gobierno de la República Peruana, el termino de 60 dias, y por el de Bolivia, en el de 15 dias, contudos ambos desde esta fecha, y obteni dos que sean se conjearán por los respectivos Plenipotenciarios. En fé de lo cual, los infrascritos Plenipotentiarios de las Partes Contratantes, hemos firmado el presente Tratado, refrendado por los Secretarios Legaciones, en Tiquina, á los 25 dias del mes de Agorto, del año del Señor de 1831, 12 de la Independencia del Perú, y 21 de la de Bolivia, (L. S.) PEDRO ANTONIO DE LA TORRE. ing effected, one half of the Peruvian Army shall 1831 be stationed in the Departments of Lima, Junin and Libertad, and the other half may be cantoned in those South of the Capital. Bolivia shall retain one half of its Army in the Departments of La Paz, Oruro, and Cochabamba, and the other, in hose of Potosi, Chuquisaca, Santa Cruz, and Tarija. ART. VII, Inspectors shall be appointed by each Government, for the purpose of examining the respect've cantonnements, and superintending the exact and faithful fulfilment of the preceding Articles. ART. VIII. The Governments of Peru and Bolivia will not only re-establish the commercial relations which before existed between the Citizens of the two States, but will protect them by all the means in their power, granting to them the ame protection and consideration as are enjoyed y the most favored Nation. ART. IX. The national products of both Staes shall be subject reciprocally to the Duties of Import and Export, according to the exlating Reulations, until the Treaty of Commerce shall be concluded. ART. X. The Two Governments shall send Their Ministers Plenipotentiary in the place which may be appointed, in order to conclude, under the respectable mediation of his Excellency the Minister Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Chile in Peru, Definitive Treaties of Peace, Amity, and Commerce, ART. XI. The Ratification of the present Treaty shall be executed by the Government of the Peruvian Republic in the term of 60 days, and by that of Bolivia, in the term of 15 days, both reckoned from this date, and, when obtained, shall be exchanged by the respective Plenipotentiaries. In faith whereof, the undersigned Plenipotentiaries of the Contracting Parties have signed the present Treaty, countersigned by the Secrearies of both Legations, in Tiquina, the 25th lay of the month of August of the year of our 12th of the Independence of Peru, and 21st of that of Bolivia. Lord 1831, (L. S.) (L. S.) PEDRO ANTONIO DE LA TORRE, Traité entre les Etats-unis de l'Am rique septentrionale et la tribu i dienne des Ottowas, signé sur le l d'Erie le 30 Août 1831. (Ratifié par président des Etats-unis le 6 Avr 1832.) (Acts passed at the first session of the 22 Congress the United States. Washington, 1832 Appendix p.5 Articles of Agreement and Convention, made a concluded this 30th day of August, in the ye of our Lord 1831, by and between James Gardiner, specially appointed Commissioner the part of the United States, on the one pa and the Chiefs, Headmen, and Warriors of Band of Ottoway Indians, residing within State of Ohio, on the other part, for a cessi of the several Tracts of Land now held and cupied by said Indians within said State, by 1 servations made under the Treaty concluded Detroit on the 17th day of November, 1807, a the Treaty made at the foot of the Rapids the Miami River of Lake Erie, on the 29th September, 1817. Whereas the President of the United States der the authority of the Act of Congress, appro 28th May, 1830, has appointed a Special Commission er to confer with the different Indian Tribes residin within the constitutional limits of the State of Oh and to offer for their acceptance the Provisions of t before mentioned Act: And whereas the Band of toways residing on Blanchard's Fork of the Great A glaize River, and on the Little Auglaize River at Oquan xa's Village, have expressed their consent to the conditio of said Act, and their willingness to remove west of t Mississippi, in order to obtain a more permanent advantageous home for themselves and their posteri Therefore, in order to carry into effect the a resaid objects, the following Articles of Conventi have been agreed upon by the aforesaid Contracti Parties, which, when ratified by the President of t United States, by and with the consent of the Senate 1831 thereof, shall be mutually binding upon the United States and the aforesaid Band of Ottoway Indians. ART. I. The Band of Ottoway Indians, residing on Blanchard's Fork of the Great Auglaize River, and at Oquanoxa's Village on the Little Auglaize Rier, in consideration of the Stipulations herein made on the part of the United States, do for ever cede, release, and quit claim to the United States, the lands reserved to them by the last Clause of the 6th Article of the Treaty made at the foot of the Rapids of the Miami of the Lake, on the 29th of September, 1817; which Clause is in the following words: -,,There shall be reserved for the use of the Ottoway Indians, but not granted to them, a tract of land on Blanchard's Fork of the Great Auglaize River, to contain 5 miles square, the centre of which tract is to be where the old trace crosses the said Fork; and one other tract o contain 3 miles square on the Little Auglaize River, to include Oquanoxa's Village," making in said cession 21,760 acres. ART. II. The Chiefs, Headmen, and Warriors of the Band of Ottoway Indians, residing at and near the places called Roche de Boguf and Wolf Rapids, on the Miami River of Lake Erie, and within the State of Ohio, wishing to become Parties to this Convention, and not being willing, at this time, to stipulate for their removal west of the Mississippi; do hereby agree, in consideration of the Stipulations herein made for them on the part of the United States, to cede, release and for ever quit claim to the United States, the following tracts of land, reserved to them by the Treaty made at Detroit on the 17th day of November, 1807, to wit: the tract of 6 miles square above Roche de Boeuf, to include the Village where Ton- ' dagonie (or Dog) formerly lived; and also 3 miles square at the Wolf Rapids aforesaid, which was substituted for the 3 miles square granted by the said Treaty of Detroit to the said Ottoways,,,to include Presque Isle," but which could not be granted as stipulated in said Treaty of Detroit, in consequence of its collision with the grant of 12 miles square to the United States by the Treaty of Greenville; making in the whole cession made by this Article, 28,157 |
