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 TREATY WITH THE CHOC'PAWS AND CHICKASAWS. JUNE 22, 1855. 611 FRANKLIN PIERCE, PRESIDENT O]:` THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: ro ALL AND siNGULA1c T0 Wn0M THESE PRESENTS SHALL coME, GREETING: J¤¤° 2% 1@ WHEREAS a treaty was made and concluded at the city of Washington, on the twenty-second day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty- five, by George `W. Manypenny, commissioner on the part of the United States, Peter P. Pitchlynn, Israel Folsom, Samuel Garland, and Dixon W. Lewis, commissioners on the part of the Choctaws, and Edmund Pickens and Sampson Folsom, commissioners on the part of the Chickasaws, which treaty is in the words following, to wit: Articles of agreement and convention between the United States and Tm,,_ the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes of Indians, made and concluded at the city of Washiiigton, the twenty-second day of June, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-fivc, by George W. Manypenny, commissioner on the part of the United States, Peter P. Pitchlynn, Israel Folsom, Samuel Garland, and Dixon W. Lewis, commissioners on the part of the Choctaws; and Edmund Pickens and Sampson Folsom, commissioners on the part of the Chiekasaws: Whereas, the political connexion heretofore existing between the Choc- preamble_ taw and the Chickasaw tribes of Indians, has given rise to unhappy and injurious dissensions and controversies among them, which render necessary a readjustment of their relations to each other and to the United States: and whereas, the United States desire that the Choctaw Indians shall relinquish all claim to any territory west of the one hundredth degree of west longitude, and also to make provision for the permanent settlement within the Choctaw country, of the Wichita and certain other tribes or bands of Indians, for which purpose the Choctaws and Chickasaws are willing to lease, on reasonable terms, to the United States, that portion of their common territory which is west of the ninety-eighth degree of west longitude: and whereas, the Choctaws contend, that, by a just and fair construction of the treaty of September 27, 1830, they are, VO}, v5_ p_ 33;;, of right, entitled to the net proceeds of the lands ceded by them to the United States, under said treaty, and have proposed that the question of their right to the same, together with the whole subject—matter of their unsettled claims, whether national or individual, against the United States, arising under the various provisions of said treaty, shall be referred to the Senate of the United States for final adjudication and adjustment, and whereas, it is necessary for the simplincation and better understanding of the relations between the United States and the Choctaw Indians, that all their subsisting treaty stipulations be embodied in one comprehensive instrument: Now, therefore, the United States of America, by their commissioner, George W. Manypenny, the Choctaws, by their commissioners, Peter P. Pitchlynn, Israel Folsom, Samuel Garland, and Dickson W. Lewis, and the Chickasaws, by their commissioners, Edmund Pickens and Sampson Folsom do hereby agree and stipulate as follows, viz: ARTICLE] 1. The lollowing shall constitute and remain the boundaries Future boundof the Choctaw and Chickasaw country, viz: Beginning at a point on ggiitgivtgzd the Arkansas River, one hundred paces east of old Fort Smith, where Chickasaw country.