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TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1846-1859
Texas & Comr. to treat with the Same and acting Secretary
No. 104
TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE COMANCHE, LIPAN, MESCALERO AND OTHER TRIBES OF INDIANS Council Ground San Saba Bexar County Texas. October 28th--1851- Articles of a treaty made and concluded at the council ground in the County of Bexar. Texas on the San Saba River, this twentyeighthday [sic] of October one thousand eight hundred and fifty one, between John A. Rogers special agent for the In- dians residing in Texas, and commissioner on the part of the United States, of the one part, and the undersigned chiefs coun- sellers and head men of the Comanche, Lipan, & Mescalero tribes and their associate bands in behalf of these said tribes on the other part. Article I. The undersigned chiefs, warriors, head men, and counsel- I [ors] for themselves, and their said tribes, and nations, do here- by, acknowledge, themselves to be under the authorities, of the United States, of America, and no other power, state or sover- eignty, whatever. Article 2nd II. We, the undersigned, aforesaid, agree to, and acknowledge each and every article of the treaty, entered into, on the fifteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred forty six, at Council Spring, in the County of Robertson, and State of Texas, between P. M. Butler, and M. G. Lewis, on the part of the United States of America; and the chiefs, warriors, and councellers, of the Comanche, Ioni, Anadarko, Caddo, Lanorhas, Keechi, Tawakoni, Wichita and Waco, tribes of Indians as obligatory upon us and those we represent as if we had signed and acknowledged the same, Article, III. And whereas, a treaty of peace, was entered into, and con-
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