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 TREATY BETWEEN THE CHOCTAWS AND CHICKASAWS. JAN. 17, 1837. 573 T R E A T I E S. Oonvention between the O'/zoctaws and Chclcasaws. Concluded January Jan. 17,18:17. 17, 1837. Approved and Oonyirmed March 24, 1837.* ARTICLES of convention and agreement made on the seventeenth day Negotiators. of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, between the undersigned chiefs and commissioners, duly appointed and empowered by the Choctaw tribe of red People, and John McLish, Pitman Colbert, James Brown, and James Perry, delegates of the Chickasaw tribe of Indians, duly authorized by the chiefs and head men of said people for that purpose, subject to the approval of the President and Senate of the United States. ARTICLE I. It is agreed by the Choctaws that the Chickasaws shall Chickasaws have the privilege of forming a district within the limits of their country,    *5,3;: to be held on the same terms that the Choctaws now hold it, except the mw ,,0u,my_ right of disposing of it, which is held in common with the Choctaws and Chickasaws, to be called the Chickasaw district of the Choctaw Nation, to have an equal representation in their General Council, and to be placed on an equal footing in every other respect with any of the other districts of said nation, except a voice in the management of the consideration Conditions and which is given for these rights and privileges; and the Chickasaw people Hmiml°¤S· to be entitled to all the rights and privileges of Choctaws, with the exception of participating in the Choctaw annuities, and the consideration to be paid for these rights and privileges, and to be subject to the same laws to which the Choctaws are; but the Chickasaws reserve to themselves the sole right and privilege of controlling and managing the residue of their funds, as far as is consistent with the late treaty between the said people and the Government of the United States, and of making such regulations and electing such officers for that purpose as they may think proper. ARTICLE II. The Chickasaw district shall be bounded as follows, viz: _Bqu¤d¤ri¢S <>f beginning on the north bank of Red River, at the mouth of Island bayou, d‘sm°t‘ about eight or ten miles below the mouth of False Wacliitta, thence running north along the main channel of said bayou to its source; thence along the dividing ridge between the Wachitta and Low Blue rivers, to the road leading from Fort Gibson to Fort Wachitta; thence along said road, to the line dividing Mushallatubbee and Pushmatahaw districts; thence, eastwardly, along said district line, to the source of Brushy Creek; thence, down said creek, to where it Hows into the Canadian River, ten or twelve miles above the mouth of the south fork of the Canadian; thence, west, along the main Canadian River, to its source, if in the limits of the United States, or to those limits; and thence, due south to Red River, and down Red River to the beginning. ARTICLE HI. The Chickasaws agree to pay the Choctaws, as a consid- th P*>'}¤§¤* f°¤` eration for these rights and privileges, the sum of five hundred and thirty gse pm, egcs thousand dollars; thirty thousand of which shall be paid at the time, and in the manner, that the Choctaw annuity of 1837 is paid; and the remaining five hundred thousand dollars to be invested in some safe and secure dated February 9, 1859.
 * Published in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the United States,