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To the [Hon.?] Commissioner of Indian
Affairs -- Washington, D.C.

We the undersigned Pottawatamie
Indians now residing in the State of
Mich [Michigan], and descendents [descendants] of the Indian chief
[Tonquish?], do hereby respectfully petition to
you to take the necessary steps, and to do whatever
[may?] be necessary in the matter to secure
to them, said descendants of said Pottawatamie
= Chief, and Indians of the Pottawatamie nation
of Indians under articles of treaty made
and concluded November 17th [A.?]D. 1807 and
found on page 192 of the revision and [compiclation?] [compilation?]
of all the treaties between the United
States and the Indian[s] [crossed out] tribes in the year A.D.
1873. We the undersigned claim that we are
entitled as such descendants of said [Tonquish?]
and of said Pottawatamie[s?] [crossed out] tribe of Indians the
annuity of four hundred dollars forever
as provided by the latter part of Article two
of said treaty first above reffered [referred] to,