Proclamation of the Treaty of Fort Harmar
Document 1789Washington's offcial proclamation of the Treay of Fort Harmar with the Chiefs and Warriors of the Wyandot, Delaware, Ottawa, Chippawa, Pattiwatima, and Sac Nations.
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By the PRESIDENT
OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A Proclamation.
WHEREAS by Virtue of Powers given by the United States in Congress assembled, to ARTHUR ST. CLAIR, Governor of the Territory North-west of the Ohio, and Commissioner Plenipotentiary for treating with the Indian Nations in the Northern Department, a Treaty was concluded at Fort-Harmar, on the ninth Day of January last past, by the said Arthur St. Clair, on the Part of the United States, with the Sachems, Chiefs and Warriors of the Wyandot, Delaware, Ottawa, Chippewa, Pattawatima and Sac Nations.
AND whereas I have, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, in due Form ratified the said Treaty—NOW Therefore, to the End that the same may be observed and performed with good Faith on the Part of the United States, I have ordered the said Treaty to be herewith published; and I do hereby enjoin and require all Officers of the United States, Civil and Military, and all other Citizens and Inhabitants thereof, faithfully to observe and fulfil the same.
GIVEN under my Hand in the City of New-York, this Twenty-second Day of September, in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-nine, and in the Thirteenth Year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States.
G. WASHINGTON.
By Command of the President of the United States of America,
H. KNOX,
Secretary for the Department of War.
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Washington's offcial proclamation of the Treay of Fort Harmar with the Chiefs and Warriors of the Wyandot, Delaware, Ottawa, Chippawa, Pattiwatima, and Sac Nations.
Date
09/29/1789
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