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 TREATY WITH THE CHEROKEES. 1817. 157 there, will then be freely administered to them; and when established in their new settlements, we shall still consider them as our children, give them the benefit of exchanging their peltries for what they will want at our factories, and always hold them firmly by the hand." And whereas the Cherokees, relying on the promises of the President of the United States, as above recited, did explore the country on the west side of the Mississippi, and made choice of the country on the Arkansas and White rivers, and settled themselves down upon United States’ lands, to which no other tribe of Indians have any just claim, and have duly notified the President of the United States thereof, and of their anxious desire for the full and complete ratification of his promise, and, to that end, as notified by the President of the United States, have sent on their agents, with full powers to execute a treaty, relinquishing to the United States all the right, title, and interest, to all lands of right to them belonging, as part of the Cherokee nation, which they have left, and which they are about to leave, proportioned to their numbers, including, with those now on the Arkansas, those who are about to remove thither, and to a portion of which they have an equal right agreeably to their numbers. Now, know ye, that the contracting parties, to carry into full effect the before recited promises with good faith, and to promote a continuation of friendship with their brothers on the Arkansas river, and for that purpose to make an equal distribution of the annuities secured to be paid by the United States to the whole Cherokee nation, have agreed and concluded on the following articles, viz: Am-. 1. The chiefs, head men, and warriors, of the whole Cherokee Ccssicn of nation, cede to the United States all the lands lying north and east of lg“$cL‘;rPéS;01_ the following boundaries, viz : Beginning at the high shoals of the Appa- ,,,;,8,. landé lachy river, and running thence, along the boundary line between the Creek and Cherokee nations, westivardly to the Chatahouchy river; thence, up the Chatahouchy river, to the mouth of Souque creek ; thence, continuing with the general course of the river until it reaches the Indian boundary line, and, should it strike the Turrurar river, thence, with its meanders, down said river to its mouth, in part of the proportion of land in the Cherokee nation east of the Mississippi, to which those now on the Arkansas and those about to remove there are justly entitled. Am. 2. The chiefs, head men, and warriors, of the whole Cherokee Further ees. nation, do also cede to the United States all the lands lying north and Si°¤ of landswest of the following boundary lines, viz: Beginning at the Indian boundary line that runs from the north bank of the Tennessee river, opposite to the mouth of Hywassee river, at a point on the top of Walden’s ridge, where it divides the waters of the Tennessee river from those of the Sequatchie river; thence, along the said ridge, southwardly, to the bank of the Tennessee river, at a point near to a place called the Negro Sugar Camp, opposite to the upper end of the first island above Running Water Town; thence, westwardly, a straight line to the mouth of Little Sequatchie river; thence, up said river, to its main fork; thence, up its northernmost fork, to its source; and thence, due west, to the Indian boundary line. ART. 3. It is also stipulated by the contracting parties, that a census A census of shall be taken of the whole Cherokee nation, during the month of June, th¤_Chcr<>k¤¢ in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, in {*3;;* “’ be the following manner, viz: That the census of those on the east side ` of the Mississippi river, who declare their intention of remaining, shall be taken by a commissioner appointed by the President of the United States, and a commissioner appointed by the Cherokees on the Arkansas O