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USDA Forest Service EDW, Tribal Cession Lands
The federal mapping of the cessions returns the same answer the calls give. The digitized Royce cession polygons — the feature class built from the maps of Royce's Indian Land Cessions in the United States (18th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology) and keyed to his Schedule — queried at the town point return exactly one feature: cession 146, whose Schedule record gives cession date 20 September 1828, tribe Potawatomi, and counties including St. Joseph. The brief's approximate point and the published infobox point return 146 as well. The controls behave as the sister pass found them: North Liberty's Gazetteer point returns 180 only, and Walkerton's returns 180 only — those towns' settled verdicts, reproduced here from the same layer. The transects close the box: along the town's latitude the layer runs 180 west of the meridian and 146 from the town east past 85.20° W; along the town's longitude it runs 117 north of the 1817 line, 146 from just below the line through the town to 41.48° N, and 181 — the 27 October 1832 remainder — below 41.4738° N. Text and map agree throughout at this point.