of Agreement or Deeds of Cession hereunto annexed and executed at the City of Albany by and between the People of the said State by their Commissioners authorized for that purpose and several of the said Cayugas for and in behalf of the said Tribe or Nation and bearing date the twenty fifth day of February in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine. And also the further sum of one thousand dollars as a Benevolence: And We the said Cayugas in Consideration thereof Do by these presents fully freely and absolutely ratify and confirm the said agreement and cession and all and singular the Articles Covenants Matters and things therein expressed and contained on the part of us the said Cayugas done or to be done executed or performed and We the said Cayugas do further hereby Grant and release to the people of the State of New York all our Right Interest and Claim in and to all lands lying East of the Line of Cession by the State of New York to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, except the Lands mentioned in the said Deed of Cession hereunto annexed to be reserved to us the Cayugas and our Posterity.

In Testimony whereof as well the Sachems, Chiefs and Warriors of the Cayugas as the said Governor and other Commissioners on behalf of the People of the State of New York have hereunto interchangeably set their hands and affixed their Seals the day and year first above written

Be it remembered that on the twenty fifth day of November in the year one thousand, seven hundred and ninety one before me John Sloss Hobart one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the State of New York came Samuel Kirkland Clerk, Missionary and Interpreter to the six nations of Indians who made oath that he was present and did see the twenty four Sachems Chiefs and Warriors of the Cayuga Nation of Indians whose names are set opposite to their respective Seals severally seal and deliver the within written ratification as their Voluntary Act and deed for the purpose and uses therein mentioned he having previously thereto faithfully and truly interpreted the contents of the same from the English into the Indian Language unto the said Sachems Chiefs and Warriors in such a manner as that it was fully understood by them, and that he also saw the Commissioners on the part of the State of New York in the said ratification named severall seal and deliver the same as their voluntary act and deed for the purposes and uses therein mentioned, and that Jos. Brant and the other nine persons whose names are signed as Witnesses were present and did see the said parties seal and deliver the said Ratification and

I having Examined the same and found no alterations therein other than those noted to have been made previous to the Execution thereof do allow it to be recorded Jno. Sloss Hobart......

The preceding Instrument is a true Copy of the Original Examined and Compared therewith this 4th day of April 1793 By me

ROBT HARPUR

D Secy

At a Treaty held at the Cayuga Ferry in the State of New York by Philip Schuyler, John Cantine, David Brooks and John Richardson Agents authorized for that purpose by and on behalf of the People of the State of New York with the tribe or nation of Indians called the Cayugas, it is on this twenty seventh day of July one thousand seven hundred and ninety five covenanted concluded and agreed upon as follows,

WHEREAS there was reserved to the Cayuga Nation by the articles of agreement made at Albany on the twenty fifth day of February one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight and confirmed by subsequent articles made at Fort Stanwix on the twenty second day of June one thousand seven hundred and ninety sundry lands in the said Articles particularly specified and described

Now Know all Men that in order to render the said reservations more productive of annual income to the said Cayuga nation, (it is Covenanted, stipulated and agreed by the said Cayuga Nation that they will sell and they do by these presents sell to the People of the State of New York all and singular the Lands reserved to the use of the said Cayuga Nation) in and by the hereinbefore mentioned articles of Agreement that is to say as well the Lands bordering on and adjacent to the Cayuga Lake Commonly called the Cayuga reservation as the Lands at Secawyace and elsewhere heretofore or now appertaining to the said Nation (except the Lands hereinafter particularly excepted and still to be reserved to the said Nation or the individual Sachem Fish Carrier) to have and to hold the same to the People of the State of New York and to their Successors forever,—

Secondly it is Covenanted and agreed by and on the part of the People of the State of New York that for the Lands now sold as specified in the preceding first Article the State of New York shall pay and do now pay to the said Cayuga Nation in presence of the witnesses who have Subscribed their names hereunto the sum of Eighteen hundred Dollars and do further promise and engage to pay to the said Cayuga Nation in manner hereinafter specified the further sum of Eighteen hundred Dollars on the first day of June next ensu

ing the date hereof and annually forever thereafter on the first day of June in each year the sum of Eighteen hundred Dollars.

Thirdly that as well the said Eighteen hundred Dollars to be paid as mentioned in the Second Article as the five hundred Dollars to which the said Cayuga Nation are annually entitled by virtue of the Treaty and articles of agreement first above mentioned shall in future be annually paid on the first day of June in each year forever hereafter at Canadaghque in the County of Ontario to the Agent for Indian affairs under the United States for the time being residing within this State and in case no such Agent shall be appointed on the part of the United States then by such person as the Governor of the State of New York shall thereunto appoint to be by the said Agent or person so to be appointed paid to the said Cayuga Nation taking their receipt therefor on the back of the Counterpart of this instrument in the possession of the said Indians in the words following to wit "We the Cayuga Nation do acknowledge to have received from the People of the State of New York the sum of two thousand and three hundred Dollars in full for the several Annuities within mentioned as

Witness our hands at Canadaghque this day of 179 " which money shall be paid in the presence of at least one of the Magistrates of the County of Ontario and in the presence of at least two more reputable Inhabitants of the said County and which Magistrate and other persons in whose presence the same shall be paid shall subscribe their names as witnesses to the said Receipt and the said Agent or other person so to be appointed shall also take a duplicate receipt for the said Money witnessed by the said Witnesses and which duplicate shall as soon as Conveniently may be be acknowledged and recorded in the records of the said County of Ontario and the Original duplicate transmitted to the Governor of this State for the time being.

Fourthly the People of the State of New York reserve to the Cayuga Nation and to their posterity forever for their own use and Occupation but not to be Sold Leased or in any other manner aliened or disposed of to others unless by the express Consent of the Legislature of the said State A Certain Tract of Land part of the reservation aforesaid of two miles square at such place as the same shall be run out and marked by a Surveyor appointed by the said Agents on the part of the People of this State together with such of the said Indians as shall attend for that purpose and also one other piece of land of one mile square part of the reservation aforesaid and the Mine within the same if any there be under the same restrictions and to be run out and marked in manner aforesaid, and also one other piece of [Assembly, No. 51.]

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