The other instruments — negatives proven from their own texts

Every other candidate is excluded from its own words. 1818: the St. Mary's series holds two instruments — the Potawatomi treaty of 2 October 1818 (7 Stat. 185, Royce Area 98), ceding the Wabash country from the Tippecanoe's mouth to the Vermilion, some eighty miles south; and the Miami treaty of 6 October 1818 (7 Stat. 189 — the citation sometimes attached to "St. Mary's" whole; it is the Miami instrument), ceding the New Purchase of central Indiana from its calls at the Wabash and the Fort Wayne reserve. Neither reaches this ground. 1826, the Miami treaty of 23 October (7 Stat. 300): a claim cession — the Miami cede "all their claim to land in the State of Indiana, north and west of the Wabash and Miami rivers" — which draws no polygon over Clay Township and plants none of its reserves or schedule grants here; a caution rides with it, that its schedule's "St. Joseph" is the St. Joseph of the Maumee at Fort Wayne, not this valley's river, and its grants there must not be read onto this county. (Its one grant in this county's prairie country — three sections to La Gros "where he now lives, and one section adjoining the Cranberry in the Portage Prairie" — stands in the tribes fragment's reserve table.) 1828, the Treaty of St. Joseph of 20 September (7 Stat. 317): the first cession (Area 145) is the strip between the St. Joseph River and the state line and never descends south of that line; the second (Area 146) starts on the 1817 line and hangs south of it — the cession that takes Lakeville — while Roseland lies north of the line. Both negatives proven from the calls. 1832, Tippecanoe, 26 October (7 Stat. 394, Area 180): its polygon's easternmost reach is a corner on the 1817 line running south — the Kankakee/Tippecanoe country that takes North Liberty and Walkerton — outside every call of which Roseland, north of the line and east of that corner, stands clear. 1833, Chicago (7 Stat. 431), carried at pointer: its supplementary articles extinguish the Michigan reserves and stop at the state line, making no cession and no reserve in Indiana at this latitude.