To the Senate and House of Representatives of the U S of America in Congress
assembled
The memorial of Margaret. Skicket. represents that she is a half breed Osage
  Indian residing in the Territory of Kansas, that her name previous to her marriage
  was Margaret Renau, and that she is the same identical Margaret Renau, mentioned
  in the 5th article of the Treaty of the 2nd of June 1825, made at St Louis
  Missouri, with the Great and Little Osage Indians, as by reference to the 5th
  article of said Treaty 7 Vol. P. 241. U. S. laws it will more plainly appear.
  That it is stipulated she the said Margaret. was entitled to one section of
  land that subsequently intermarried Skicket an Indian of the Delaware nation,
  and with said husband emigrated and resided with his nation a distance of 150
  miles from her former home.
Subsequently her husband died, and left her a widow destitute of means for
  her support, since which she returned to her former home to obtain the section
  of land reserved for her use, which was guarenteed to her by the Government
  in said Treaty. She discovered that a half sister who had assumed her name
  had drawn from Government, the value of land in money that she Margaret has
  not received a dollar. That by the terms of a treaty at Fort Gibson west of
  Arkansas with the Great and Little Osages 7.Vol. P.576 U.S.L. In this last
  Treaty it is stipulated that Government will purchase the reservation designated
  in the Treaty of June 2nd, 1825, not exceeding two dollars per acre.
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Your memorialist therefore prays that your Hon. Body may pass a law directing
  the amt. stipulated in said Treaties to be paid her
The amt. fraudently taken was $1280. and your memorialist will ever pray.
Margaret Skicket
Per McLaughlin  Bartley Attys. for Memorialist