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 TREATY WITH THE CHEROKEES. 1807. 103 ARTICLE IV. It is further agreed on the part of the United States that the claims Fmherumcg. which the Chickasaws may have to the two tracts reserved by the tirst memarticle of this convention on the north side of the Tennessee river, shall be settled by the United States in such manner as will be equitable, and will secure to the Cherokees the title to the said reservations. [In the fifth line of the first article, the words, at the point of an island called Chickasaw Island; in the twentieth line of the same article, the words, including John D. C'/reshalm, Au, low, we, and Cheh Chuh ; and in the filth line of the third article, the words, up said creek to its head cmd, were interlined before the signing and sealing of these presents.] Dorm at the place and on the day and year first above written. HENRY DEARBCRN. Double Head, John Jolly, James Venn, John Lowry, Tallotiskee, Red Bird, Chu, lion, John Walker, Sour Much, Young Wolf, Turtle at homo, Skeuka, Ka, ti, hu, Sequechu, John M·Lemore, Wm. Shoury. Broom, In presence of Return J. Meigs, Benjamin Hawkins, Danl. Smith, Jno. Smith, Andw. M<Clary, Jno. M·Clary. I certify the foregoing convention has been faithfully interpreted. CHS. HICKS, Interpreter. To tha Indian naman are rubjoined a mark and soul. E L U C I D A T I O N Of a convention with the Cherokee Nation. Sept. I1, ,801 Wnmzms, by the first article of a convention between the United A1;‘§flf2“‘j‘Ql3g· States and the Cherokee nation, entered into at the city of Washington, Aura,  101.. on the seventh day of January, one thousand eight hundred and six, it was intended on the part of the Cherokee nation, and so understood by the Secretary of War, the commissioner on the part of the United States, to cede to the United States all the right, title and interest which the said Cherokee nation ever had to a tract of country contained between the Tennessee river and the Tennessee ridge (so called}; which tract of country had since the year one thousand seven hun red and ninety four, been claimed by the Cherokees and the Chickasaws: the eastern boundary whereof is limited by a line so to be run from the upper part of the Chickasaw Old Fields, as to include all the waters of Elk river, any thing expressed in said convention to the contrary notwithstanding. It is therefore now declared by James Robertson and Return J. Meigs, acting under the authority of the executive of the United States, and by a delegation of Cherokee chiefs, of whom Euno-