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 286 TREATY WITH THE CREEKS. 1826. Wrrxsssss rnr:saN1·:.-A. M·Nair, U. S. Indian Agent. R. Graham,_U. S. Indian Agent. Pierre Menard, Sub-Indian Agent. John Campbell, Sub-Indian Agent. W. B. Alexander, Sub-Indian Agent. John F. A. Sand ford. L. Valle. John B. Saipy. Quatawapea, or Col. Lewis. Wysaosheka. 'lb the Indian name are subjoiuad a mark and seal. ARTICLES OF A TREATY 1u, isn. Made at the City of Washington, this twentyfourth day of hmr- ary, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-sz2c, betzoeen James April 22. 1826- Barbour, Secretary of War, thereto specially authorised by the President % the United States, and the undersigned, Chiefs and Head en of the Creek Nation of Indians, who have received full power from the said Nation to conclude and arrange all the mattws herein provided for. pmmbj,,_ Wnsnnas a treaty was concluded at the Indian Springs, on the Ame, P- 237· twelfth day of February last, between Commissioners on the part of the United States, and a portion of the Creek Nation, by which an extensive district of country was ceded to the United States. And whereas a great majority of the Chiefs and Warriors of the said Nation have protested against the execution of the said Treaty, and have represented that the same was signed on their part by persons having no sufficient authority to form treaties, or to make cessions, and that the stipulations in the said Treaty are, therefore, wholly void. And whereas the United States are unwilling that diiliculties should exist in the said Nation, which may eventually lead to an intestine war, and are still more unwilling that any cessions of land should be made to them, unless with the fair understanding and full assent of the Tribe making such cession, and for a just and adequate consideration, it being the policy of the United States, in all their intercourse with the Indians, to treat them justly and liberally, as becomes the relative situation of the parties. Now, therefore, in order to remove the difficulties which have thus arisen, to satisfy the great body of the Creek Nation, and to reconcile the contending parties into which it i unhappily divided, the following articles have been agreed upon and concluded, between James Barbour, Secretary of War, specially authorised as aforesaid, and the said Chiefs and Head Men representing the Creek Nation of Indians: ARTICLE 1. T,.,,,,,, 0; yn_ The Treaty concluded at the Indian Springs, on the twelfth day of dian Springs February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, between Comd°gl”‘?g mm missioners on the part of the United States and the said Creek Nation mjtnig: 237, of Indians, and ratified by the United States on the seventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, is hereby declared to be null and void, to every intent and purpose whatsoever; and every right and claim arising from the same is hereby cancelled and surrendered. ARTICLE 2. Lands ceded The Creek Nation of Indians code to the United States all the land east side of the middle of the Chatahoochie river. And, also, another
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