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 TREATY WITH CREEKS AND SEMINOLES. AUGUST 7, 1856. 699 FRANKLIN PIERCE, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, A t 185 ugus 7, 6 T0 ALL rmzsous ro wnou THESE rxmsurrrs SHALL coivm, cannrmcz WHEREAS a treaty was made and concluded at the city of Washington, on the seventh day of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, between P’°“'"bl°‘ George W. Manypenny, commissioner on the part of the United States, Tuck·a-batchee—Micco, Echo-Harjo, Chilly McIntosh, Benjamin Marshall, George W. Stidham, and Daniel N. McIntosh, commissioners on the part of the Creeks; and John Jumper, Tuste—nuc-o—chee, Pars-co-fer, and James Factor, commissioners on the part of the Seminoles, which treaty is in the words and figures following, viz: Articles of agreement and convention between the United States, and the Creek and Seminole tribes of Indians, made and concluded at the city Tim} of Washington the seventh day of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, by George W. Manypenny, commissioner on the part of the United States, Tuck-a-batches-Micco, Echo-Harjo, Chilly McIntosh, Benjamin Marshall, George W. Stidham, and Daniel N. McIntosh, commissioners on the part of the Creeks; and John Jumper, Tuste-nuc-o—chee, Pars-co-fer, and James Factor, commissioners on the part of the Seminoles: Whereas the convention heretofore existing between the Creek and P¤'¤¤mbl°· Seminole tribes of Indians west of the Mississippi River, has given rise to unhappy and injurious dissensions and controversies among them, which render necessary a re·adjustment of their relations to each other and to the United States; and whereas the United States desire, by providing the Seminoles remaining in Florida with a comfortable home west of the Mississippi River, and by making a. liberal and generous provision for their welfare, to induce them to emigrate and become one people with their brethren already west, and also to afford to all the Seminoles the means of education and civilization, and the blessings of a regular civil government; and whereas, the Creek nation and individuals thereof, have, by their delegation, brought forward and persistently urged various claims against the United States, which it is desirable shall be finally adjusted and settled; and whereas it is necessary for the simplification and better understanding of the relations between the United States and said Creek and Seminole tribes of Indians, that all their subsisting treaty stipulations shall, as far as practicable, be embodied in one comprehensive instrument; now therefore; the United States, by their commissioner, George W. Manypenny, the Creek tribe of Indians, by their commissioners, Tuck-a- batchee-Micro, Echo-Haijo, Chilly McIntosh, Benjamin Marshall, George W`. Stidham, and Daniel N. McIntosh; and the Seminole tribe of Indians, by their commissioners, John Jumper, Tuste-nuc-o—chee, Pars-co-fer, and James Factor, do hereby agree and stipulate as follows, viz: Anrrcmc I. The Creek Nation doth hereby grant, cede, and convey 0'¤SSi¤¤ by _ to the Seminole Indians, the tract of country included within the follow- gxzlfs t° Sm"` ing boundaries, viz: beginning on the Canadian River, a few miles east of the ninety-seventh parallel of west longitude where Oek-hi-appo, or Pond Creek, empties into the same; thence, due north to the north fork of the Canadian; thence, up said north fork of the Canadian to the southern line of the Cherokee country; thence, with that line, west, to the one hundredth parallel of west longitude; thence, south along said parallel of longitude to the Canadian River, and thence down and with that river to the place of beginning.