Annuity RollMississippi & Lake Superior Chippewa Dated November 28, 1850 Puk-wa-wung Bands Heads of Family Donated by Timm Severud . |
We the chief headmen, heads of families and individuals without families of the Chippewas of the Mississippi and Lake Superior, within the Sub-agency of Sandy Lake, acknowledge the receipt from John B. Watrous, sub-agent at Sandy Lake of the sum of twenty thousand, two hundred twenty seven, and 76/100th dollars in goods, it being no(w) full of the sum of nineteen thousand dollars no(w) good under the 2a Article of the Treaty of the 29th of July 1837, and two thousand five hundred dollars in goods under the 4th article of the Treaty of October 4th, 1842, the same being in full of the annuity due our tribe in goods from the year 1850, except said fund of two hundred and seventy two and 24/100th dollars not being accounted for. . We certify that we were present at the payment of the above mentioned sum of twenty nine thousand and two hundred and twenty seven 76/100th dollars in goods and saw the amount paid to the several Indians and that their signatures or marks were affixed in our presences. |