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 TREATY WITH THE CHEROKEES. 1819. 199 houses of entertainment, on said road, that is to say: one at each end, and one in the middle, or as nearly so as a good situation will permit: with leave also to cultivate one hundred acres of land at each end of the road, and fifty acres at the middle stand, with a privilege of a sul? ficiency of timber for the use and consumption of said stands. And the said Turnpike Company do hereby agree to pay the sum of one hundred and sixty dollars yearly to the Cherokee nation, for the aforesaid privilege, to commence after said road is opened and in complete operation. The said company are to have the benefit of one ferry on Tennessee river, and such other ferry or ferries as are necessary on said road; and, likewise, said company shall have the exclusive privilege of trading on said road during the aforesaid term of time. In testimony of our full consent to all and singular the above·named privileges and advantages, we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our seals, this eighth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirteen. Outahelce, Chulio, Notre, above, Dick J u tice, '1`heelagathahee, Wausaw¤y, The Raven, Big Cabbin, Two Killers, The Bark, Teeistiskee, Nettie Carrier, John Boggs, Seekeekee, Quotiquaskee, John Walker, Cnrihee, Dick, Dick Brown, Ooseekee, Charles Hicks. Toochalee, \Vr·r·xsssr;s PRESENT.—WH1. L. Lovely, Assistant Agent. Vi/'illiam Smith. George Colville. James Carey, Richard Taylor, Interpreters. The foregoing agreement and grant was amicably negotiated and concluded in my presence. (Signed) RETURN J. MEIGS. I certify I believe the within to be a correct copy of the original. Washington City, March 1, 1819. Ch. HICKS. Cherokee Agency, January 6, 1817. WVe, the undersigned Chiefs of the Cherokee nation, do hereby grant Jan. 6, 1817. unto Nicholas Byers, Arthur H. Henly, and David Russell, proprietors of the Unicoy road to Georgia, the liberty of cultivating all the ground contained in the bend on the north side of Tennessee river, opposite and below Chota Old Town, together with the liberty to erect a grist mill on Four Mile creek, for the use and benefit of said road, and the Cherokees in the neighbourhood thereof; for them,_the said ·Byers, Henly, and Russell, to have and to hold the above privileges during the term of lease of the Unicoy road, also obtained from the Cherokees, and sanctioned by the President of the United States. In witness whereof, we hereunto affix our hands and seals in presence of John McIntosh, The Gloss, Charles Hicks, John Walker, Path Killer, Path Killer, jr. Tuchalar, Going Snake. Wr·rxi:ss.—Return J Meigs, U. S. Agent.