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 TREATY WITH THE CHEROKEES. 1816. *139 dary line, to a rock on the Blue Ridge, where the boundary line crosses the same, and which rock has been lately established as a corner to the States of North and South Carolina; running thence, south, sixty-eight and a quarter degrees west, twenty miles and thirty-two chains, to a rock on the Chattuga river at the thirty-fifth degree of north latitude, another corner of the boundaries agreed upon by the States of North and South Carolina; thence, down and with the Chattuga, to the bcginning. Arvr. 2. For and in consideration of the above cession, the United U·_S· engage States promise and engage that the State of South Carolina shall pay to £‘}'égg0%“g"'°"t the Cherokee nation, or its accredited agent, the sum of five thousand South ,m¥um_ dollars, within ninety days after the President and Senate shall have ratihed this treaty: Provided, That the Cherokee nation shall have Proviso. sanctioned the same in Council: And provided also, That the Executive of the State of South Carolina shall approve of the stipulations contained in this article. In testimony whereof, the said Commissioner, and the undersigned Chiefs and Headmenof the Cherokee Nation, have hereunto set their hands and seals. GEORGE GRAHAM. Colonel John Lowry, Richard Taylor, Major John Walker, John Ross, Major Ridge, Cheucunsene. Wrrivzssss PRESENT xr sremzm mm smmiro :-Return J. Meigs, Jacob Laub, Gid: Davis. To the Indian names are subioined s mark and seal. ARTICLES OF A CONVENTION Made and entered into between George Graham, specially au- March 22, 1816. thorized thereto by the President of the United States, and the undersigned Chiefs and Headmen of the Cherokee Nation, duly 8, 1816. authorized and empowered by the said Nation. Arvrrcnn 1. Whereas doubts have existed in relation to the northern Doubts about boundary of that part of the Creek lands lying west of the Coosa river, b°“¤d°·'Y- and which were ceded to the United States by the treaty held at Fort Jackson, on the ninth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen; and whereas, by the third article of the Treaty, dated the seventh of January, one thousand eight hundred and six, between the United States and the Cherokee nation, the United States have recognised a claim on the part of the Cherokee nation to the lands south of the Big Bend of the Tennessee river, and extending as far west as a place on the waters of Bear Creek, [a branch of the Tennessee river,] known by the name of the Flat Rock, or Stone; it is, therefore, now Boundaq um, declared and agreed, that a line shall be run from a point on the west desigqm ¤¤d bank of the Coosa river, opposite to the lower end of the Ten Islands °“°“bh"h°d‘ in said river, and above Fort Strother, directly to the Flat Rock or Stone, on Bear creek, [a branch of the Tennessee river;] which line shall be established as the boundary of the lands ceded by the Creek nation to the United States by the treaty held at Fort Jackson, on the ninth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, and of the lands claimed by the Cherokee nation lying west of the Coosa and south of the Tennessee rivers.