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 TREATY WITH THE CHEROKEE INDIANS. Artur. 27, 1868. 727 Siqzplemental Article to the Treaty of July 19, 1866, between the United States of America and the Oherokee Nation of Indians : Ooncluded, April 27, 1868; Ratification advised, Jima 6, 1868; Itoclaimed, June l0,' 1868. ANDREW JOHNSON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, A,,,n2q,;g6g_ ro su. nn smeunia ro wuou mess museums smu. coun, cnnmrnzo : Wunmans to a treaty concluded at the city of Washington, in the Dis- rmmms. triet of Columbia, on the nineteenth day of July, in the year of our V, i ,.9, Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, between the United 0`xmp ` States of America and the Cherokee nation of Indians, through their respective representatives, a supplemental article was made and concluded at the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on the twenty-seventh day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, by and between Nathaniel G. Taylor, , commissioner, on the part of the United States, and Lewis Downing, p,_?,°;2;m°¤°S H. D. Reese, Samuel Smith, Wm. P. Adair, J. P. Davis, Elias C. Boudinot, J. A. Scales, and Arch. Scraper, delegates of the said Cherokee nation of Indians, on the part of said Indians, and duly authorized thereto by them, which supplemental article of treaty is in the words and figures following, to wit:-- Supplemental article to a treaty concluded at Washington city, July 19th, A. D. 1866; ratified with amendments, July 27th, A. D. 1866; amendmentsaccepted, July 31st, A. D. 1866; and the whole proclaimed, August 1 lth, A. D. 1866, between the United States of America and the Cherokee nation of Indians. Whereas under the provisions of the seventeenth article of a treaty and Contract by amendments thereto made between the United States and the Cherokee  f*’;’°i;‘;"`>;i€’,f nation of Indians, and proclaimed August 11th, A. D. 1866, a contract was t;,,, im;,,,,,,,, made and entered into by James Harlan, Secretary of the Interior, on Emigrant Combehalf of the United States, of the one part, and by the American Emi- g,'?';?;;?;,:;'::::,? grant Company, a corporation chartered and existing under the laws of tminmds; the State of Connecticut, of the other part, dated August 30th, A. D. 1866, for the sale of the so·called “Cherokee neutral 1ands," in the State of Kansas, containing eight hundred thousand acres, more or less, with the limitations and restriction set forth in the said seventeenth article of said treaty as amended, on the terms and conditions therein mentioned, which contract is now on tile in the Department of the Interior; And whereas Orville H. Browning, Secretary of the Interior, regard- with James F. ing said sale as illegal and not in conformity with said treaty and  °f amendments thereto, did, on the ninth day of October, A. D. 1867, for and in behalf of the United States, enter into a contract with James F. Joy, of the city of Detroit, Michigan, for the sale of the aforesaid lands on the terms and conditions in said contract set forth, and which is on file in the Department of the Interior; _ _ And whereas, for the purpose of enabling the Secretary of the Interior, as trustee for the Cherokee nation of Indians, to collect the proceeds of