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Personally appeared before the [illegible], a [illegible] public [illegible] and for said
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Personally appeared before the undersigned, a notary public in and for said County, [illegible] [illegible] of a lawful age and as [illegible] citizens, who being duly favored defendents and [illegible]   That he has resided for several years at Peru in the State of Indiana, speaks the Miami Indian language, and is familiar with the business of [illegible]
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That the chief of said Indians held [illegible] in the spring and summer of 1846, to consider about emigrating west to their new homes, but their land [illegible] did not