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 TREATY WITH THE SEMINOLE INDIANS. Mason 21, 1866. 755 Treaty between the United States of America and the Seminole Nation of Indians; Obncluded llfarch 21, 1866; Ratification advised July 19, 1866; Proelaimed August 16, 1866. ANDREW JOHNSON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, March 21, 1886. ro Im. Aim srnenmn ·ro wuou rumen rassnzrrs sean coun, cmasrmo: Whereas a Treaty was made and concluded at the city of Washington, Preamble. in the District of Columbia, on the twenty-first day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, by and between Dennis N. Cooley, Elijah Sells, and Col. Ely S. Parker, Commissioners on the part of the United States, and John Chup-co, Cho-cote-harjo, Fosharjo, and John F. Brown, chiefs and delegates of the Seminole Indians, on the part of said Indians, and duly authorized thereto by them, which Treaty is in the words and figures following, to wit: -— Aarrcnss or A Timur made and concluded at Washington, D. C., Contracting March 21, A. D. 1866, between the United States government, by its P“"‘°“° Commissioners, D. N. Cooley, Commissioner of Indian affairs, Elijah Sells, superintendent of Indian affairs, and Ely S. Parker, and the Seminole Indians, by their chiefs, John Chup-co, or Long John; Chocote-harjo, Fos-ha[r]-jo, John F. Brown. ‘ rnsamnnm. Whereas existing treaties between the United States and the Seminole nation are insufficient to meet their mutual necessities; and whereas the Seminole nation made a treaty with the so-called confederate states, August 1st, 1861, whereby they threw off their allegiance to the United States, and unsettled their treaty relations with the United States, and thereby incurred the liability of forfeiture of all lands and other property held by grant or gift of the United States ; and whereas a treaty of peace and amity was entered into between the United States and the Seminole and other tribes at Fort Smith, September 10, 1865, whereby the Seminoles revoked, cancelled, and repudiated the said treaty with the so-called confederate states; and whereas the United States, through its commissioners, in said treaty of peace, promised to enter into treaty with the Seminole nation to arrange and settle all questions relating to and growing out of said treaty with the so-called contederate states; and whereas the United States, in view of said treaty of the Seminole nation with the enemies of the government of the United States, and the consequent liabilities of said Seminole nation, and in view of its urgent necessities for more lands in the Indian territory, requires a cession by said Seminole nation of a part of its present reservation, and is willing to pay therefor a reasonable price, while at the same time providing new and adequate lands for them. Now. therefore, the United States, by its commissioners aforesaid, and the above-named delegates of the Seminole nation, the day and year above written, mutually stipulate and agree, on behalf of the respective parties, as follows, to wit : —— Aarxotn I. There shall be perpetual peace between the United _P¤¤¤¤_¤¤¤ States and the Seminole nation, and the Seminoles agree to be and re- f“°“d°’h'p' main firm allies of the United States, and always faithlnlly aid the government thereof to suppress insurrection and put down its enemies.