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claiming under that or any other State,
in any existing dispute
concerning the right, either of soil or
of jurisdiction, with the State
of Connecticut, or with any person or
persons claiming under the
State of Connecticut: And provided,
also, That nothing herein
contained shall be construed in any
manner to pledge the United
States for the extinguishment of the
Indian title to the said lands,
or further than merely to pass the title
of the United States
thereto.*
THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIAL GOVERN-
MENT-1800.
(SIXTH CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION.)
An act to divide the Territory of the
United States northwest of the Ohio
into two separate governments.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by
the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States
of America in Congress as-
sembled, That from and after the fourth day of July next, all
that part of the territory of the United
States northwest of the
Ohio River which lies to the westward of
a line beginning at the
Ohio, opposite to the mouth of Kentucky
River, and running
thence to Fort Recovery, and thence
north until it shall inter-
sect the territorial line between the
United States and Canada,
shall, for the purposes of temporary
government, constitute a
separate territory and be called the
Indiana Territory.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That
there shall be es-
* By Article IV, of the treaty of Fort
Industry, July 4, 1805, it appears
that the " Proprietors of the half
million of acres of land, lying south of
Lake Erie, called Sufferers' Land,"
furnished an annuity of one hundred
and seventy-five dollars to the
Wyandots, Munsees, and Delawares, and
those of the Shawanos and Senecas who resided
with the Wyandots. By
Article V, the Ottawas and Chippewas and
such of the Pottawatamies as
resided on the river Huron received from
said "Proprietors " the sum of
$4,000 in hand, who secured to the
President, in trust for them, the further
sum of $12,000, payable in six annual
installments, which several sums,
with $2916.67, to raise said sum of $175
annuity, over the consideration
paid by the agents of the Connecticut
Reserve to extinguish the Indian
claims of that tract of land.