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Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, Vol. II, pp. 171–174 — the Oklahoma State University digital Kappler edition, read first-hand; collated against the Statutes at Large, Vol. 7, pp. 188–189 (govinfo), the same instrument's statutory printing
The instrument is the Treaty with the Miami, made at St. Mary's, Ohio, 6 October 1818 (7 Stat. 189; proclaimed 15 January 1819), between commissioners Jonathan Jennings, Lewis Cass and Benjamin Parke and the Miami nation. Its Article 1, quoted whole from the Kappler text: "The Miami nation of Indians cede to the United States the following tract of country: Beginning at the Wabash river, where the present Indian boundary line crosses the same, near the mouth of Raccoon creek; thence, up the Wabash river, to the reserve at its head, near Fort Wayne; thence, to the reserve at Fort Wayne; thence, with the lines thereof, to the St. Mary's river; thence, up the St. Mary's river, to the reservation at the portage; thence, with the line of the cession made by the Wyandot nation of Indians to the United States, at the foot of the Rapids of the Miami of Lake Erie, on the 29th day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, to the reservation at Loramie's store; thence, with the present Indian boundary line, to Fort Recovery; and, with the said line, following the courses thereof, to the place of beginning." Article 2 reserves six tracts for the Miami nation's use — the first of them the great reserve along the Wabash from the Salamanie to the Eel — every locator a Wabash, Salamanie or White River locator. Article 3 grants sections by patent to named individuals, Richardville first among them, on the St. Mary's River and at the forks of the Wabash. Articles 4–7 carry the Miami assent to the 1809 Kickapoo cession, a perpetual annuity of fifteen thousand dollars in silver with a gristmill, a sawmill, a blacksmith, a gunsmith, implements and salt, a presidential-approbation bar on transferring the Article 3 grants (Richardville's excepted), and ratification.
The comparison the settler owed is exact agreement: no call in Article 1 reaches the St. Joseph River, the state line, or any ground in present St. Joseph County — the cession is the country south of the Wabash–St. Mary's line, the New Purchase of central Indiana — and no reserve or grant is located by its text in this county, in Clay Township, or on the St. Joseph River. One precision rides with it, because a loose paraphrase would falsify it: Article 3 does grant land in what is now northeastern Indiana, on the Fort Wayne ground. The true statement is the county statement — the treaty does not touch St. Joseph County — and the treaty's St. Mary's River is the Maumee tributary at Fort Wayne, not this county's river (trap T-9 in the ledger below). The read carries its own caveat printed: the Kappler scan's text layer garbles letters throughout, up to whole words; the quotations above give the instrument's text as collated word-for-word against the Statutes at Large printing for Articles 1–2 and the execution line, with the garble class flagged here once rather than cleaned silently or quoted raw. G-T-1 is discharged.