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1 James Cooper, The Caddo Indian Treaty (to Accompany Joint Resolution No. 18), August 20, 1842: Report [of] the Committee on Indian Affairs, to Whom Was Referred the Memorial of Samuel Norriss 1 (1842)

handle is hein.amindian/caddoit0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 27th CONGRESS, .Rep. No. 1035. Ho. or REPs. 2d Session. THE CADDO INDIAN TREATY. [To accompany joint resolution No. 18.1 AU .UST 20, 1842. aVr. JAMES COOPER, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, made the fol- lowing REPORT: The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Samuel Norriss, together with the papers, documents, and testimony relative to the fraud alleged to have been committed by the commis- sioner who negotiated the treaty with the Caddo Indians, on the 1st day of July, 1835, report : On the 6th day of February, 1840, the following memorial, with the ac- -companying affidavits, was referred, part to the Committee on Private Land Claims and part to the Committee on Indian Affairs, to wit : To the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of.dmerica in Congress assembled: Your memorialist, a citizen of the parish of Caddo, in the State of Louisiana, RESPECTFULLY REPRESENTS: That he is the claimant, occupant, and proprietor of a certain section of land situate on Rush island, on the southwest bank of Red river, and with- in the limits of the late neutral territory; that he occupied and cultivated, in good faith, a considerable portion of the said land on and prior to the twenty-second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, and made due proof of such occupancy and cultivation before the board of commissioners, organized under what is commonly called the Rio Hondo act of Congress; that, notwithstanding the said occupancy and proof, the said claim, together with several others, was suspended by reason of the false, envious, and illegal interference and representations of George Grey, the then agent of the Caddo Indians; that afterward (to wit, in the au- tumn of 1835) one Jehiel Brooks, agent of the Caddo Indians, negotiated a treaty with the said Indians, to which he made an appendage, whereby he caused a reservation of three leagues of land to be made to certain free ne- groes called Touline alias Grappe, and also a reservation of one league more to the legitimate heirs of Frangois Grappe, deceased, and then purchased the said four leagues of land for six thousand dollars, as will appear by reference to the annexed copies of sale. Samuel Norriss, your memorialist, further alleges that, in the ratification of the said appendage to the Caddo treaty, manifest injustice has been done to him as well as to a number of his neighbors, to wit, Mr. Lefroy Dupree, assignee of Leonard Dyson, who lives below and adjoining your mnemori- alist, and the assignee of Frangois Poinet alias Porier, whose claim joins the upper line of your memorialist's land, and others; that said Jehiel

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