36 society received little or no benefit. The expenses of the mission, tile support of the sick, destitute, aged and infirm often fell upon their spiritual guardians. Upon presentation of these facts. Congress was induced to adopt measures for the removal of the Indians. - The society was enabled to divest itself of the trusteeship in the land. Last of the Moravians in Ohio.—On the 4th of August, 1823, a treaty was entered into at Gnadenhutten, between Lewis Cass, Governor ' of Michigan, on the part of the United States, and Lewis de Schwenntz, on the part of the society, as a preliminary step to the retrocession of the lands to the government. The members of the society agreed to relinquish all their right and title in the lands on condition that the government would pay $6,654, being but a small portion of the money that * had been expended. In order that the agreements of the treaty might be legal, it was necessary to have the written consent of the Indians for whose benefit the land had been donated. These embraced the remainder of the Christian Indians formerly settled on the land, including Killbuck and his descend
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