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RUN AGAINST TOWNSHIP 37 NORTH, RANGES 3 AND 4 EAST — NEGATIVE
No individual or group reserve created by the 1828 or 1832 instruments — or ceded back by the reserve-cession treaties of 1834–1836 — was located inside Township 37 North, Range 3 East, or Township 37 North, Range 4 East: the test runs instrument by instrument. The 1828 treaty's Article 3 makes eighteen floating grants "to be located upon the second cession… where the President may direct, after the country may be surveyed" — and the second cession, per the verdict article, does not include either test township, so no Article 3 location could lawfully have been made in them under the article's own terms; the article's only fixed locations stand on Eel River, far southeast. The one Article 3 grant with a valley name proves the rule at its true place: the grant to Kes-he-wa-quay, wife of Pierre F. Navarre, was located — in Larry M. Wyckoff's accounting of the located reservations — in Section 21, Township 35 North, Range 8 East, in Noble County, some forty miles southeast, not at Navarre's South Bend post and not in either test township. The 1832 reserves stand in the Tippecanoe, Yellow River and Turkey Creek country, Townships 31 to 33 North, two to four tiers south, and the 1834–1836 cessions of them name no reserve in St. Joseph County, Indiana, and touch no Township 37. The reserves that stood near are printed at their true places so proximity is not inflated: Madeline Bertrand's section at Parc aux Vaches (1821) lies in Michigan, in Bertrand Township, about ten miles west and six miles north of the townsite; the Bertrand reserve proper, the tract "on St. Joseph river opposite the town of Niles, and extending to the line of the State of Indiana," is Michigan ground whose south edge is the state line itself, four and a half miles north of this township's north edge at the nearest; Pierre Moran's section at the mouth of the Elkhart (1821) is Section 5, Township 37 North, Range 5 East — the same tier as the townsite but one range east, in Range 5 East, not in either test township; the Bertrand children's half sections stand at the Kankakee portage, in the Range 1–2 East reach west of the test townships; and Nottawasepe is four miles square at present Mendon, in St. Joseph County, Michigan — the Michigan county of the same name. Three independent sources return the same negative: the treaty texts, Wyckoff's located-reservation accounting, and Royce's cession-by-cession locations. The settling record class at patent strength remains the General Land Office patents and the Fort Wayne, Crawfordsville and LaPorte–Winamac tract books, where a located grant on these sections would have to appear.