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 sapt.20,1e1s. TREATY WITH THE CHICKASAWS. Proclamation, D°°· 30- 181** To settle all territorial controversies, and to perpetuate that peace and harmony which has long happily subsisted between the United States and Chickasaw nation, the president of the United States of America, by major general Andrew Jackson, general David Meriwether, and Jesse Franklin, esq. on the one part, and the whole Chickasaw nation, in council assembled, on the other, have agreed on the following articles, which when ratified by the president, with the advice and consent of the senate of the United States, shall be binding on all parties: pam and Am. 1. Peace and friendship are hereby firmly established, and pe;. friendship- petuated, between the United States of America and Chickasaw nation Cmlon ll, the Aar. 2. The Chickasaw nation cede to the United States (with the United States. exception of such reservations as shall hereafter be specified) all right or title to lands on the north side of the Tennessee river, and relinquish all claim to territory on the south side of said river, and east of a line commencing at the mouth of Caney creek, running up said creek to its source, thence a due south course to the ridge path, or commonly called Gaines’s road, along said road south westwardly to a point on the Tombigby river, well known by the name of the Cotton Gin port, and down the west bank of the Tombigby to the Chocktaw boundary. Allowance lo Ama 3. In consideration of the relinquishment of claim, and oession Chickasaw;. of lands, made in the preceding art1cle, the commissioners agree to allow the Chickasaw nation twelve thousand dollars per annum for ten successive years, and four thousand five hundred dollars to be paid in sixty days after the ratification of this treaty into the hands of Levi Colbert, as a compensation for any improvements which individuals of the Chickasaw nation may have had on the lands surrendered; that is to say, two thousand dollars for improvements on the east side of the Tombigby, and two thousand five hundred dollars for improvements on the north side of the Tennessee river. T,,,,,,, res0W_ ART. 4. The commissioners agree that the following tracts of land ed to the Chick- shall be reserved to the Chickasaw nation: Maw mmm I. One tract of land for the use of col. George Colbert and heirs, and which is thus described by said Colbert: “Beginning on the north bank of the Tennessee river, at a point that, running north four miles, will include a big spring, about half way between his ferry and the mouth of Cypress, it being a spring that a large cow-path crosses its branch near where a cypress tree is cut down; thence westwardly to a point, four miles from the Tennessee river, and standing due north of a point on the north bank of the river, three [four;] miles below his ferry on the Tennessee river, and up the meanders o said river to the beginning point. 2. A tract of land two miles square on the north bank of the Tennessee river, and at its junction with Beach creek, for the use of Appassan Tubby and heirs. 3. lA tract of land one mile square, on the north side of the Tennessee river, for the use of John M‘Cleish and heirs, the said tract to be so run as to include the said M‘Cleish’s settlement and improvements on the north side of Buffalo creek. 4. Two tracts of land, containing forty acres each, on the south side of Tennessee river, and about two and a half miles below the Cotton (150)