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 A TREATY OF PERPETUAL FRIENDSHIP, CESSION AND LIMITS, Entered into by John IL Eaton and John Cqfee, {or and in Sept. 21, 1830. tenayof the Governmentof the United States, and theMing·oes, 3; Chiefs, Captains and Warriors of the Choctaw Natioznbegun Feb. 24, 1831., and held at Dancing Rabbit Cree/r,0n the fifteenth of Septem. ber, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty. Wunmtas the General Assembly of the State of Mississippi has extended the laws of said State to persons and property within the chartered limits of the same,and the President of the United States has said that he cannot protect the Choctaw people from the operation of these laws; Now therefore that the Choctaw may live under their own laws in peace with the United States and the State of Mississippi they have determined to sell their lands east of the Mississippi and have accordingly agreed to the following articles of treaty :* Aurora I. Perpetual peace and friendship is pledged and agreed p,,,,,, and upon by and between the United States and the Mingoes, Chiefs, and friendship. Warriors of the Choctaw Nation of Red People; and that this may be considered the Treaty existing between the parties all other Treaties heretofore existing and inconsistent with the provisions of this are hereby declared null and void. Anrrota II. The United States under a ant ciall to be made un by the President of the U. S. shall cause tobe coriggyed {0 the Choc- egiizeyiidihbo taw Nation a tract of country west of the Mississippi River, in fee Cl*°°‘°“"· ' simple to them and their descendants, to inure to them while they shall exist as a nation and live on it, beginning near Fort Smith where the Arkansas boundary crosses the Arkansas River, running thence to the scource of the Canadian fork; if in the limits of the United States, or to those limits; thence due south to Red River, and down Red River to the west boundary of the Territory of Arkansas; thence north along that line to the beginning. The boundary of the same to be agreeably to the Treaty made and concluded at Washington City in the year 1825. The grant to be executed so soon as the present Treaty shall be ratified. ARTICLE III. In consideration of the provisions contained in the Country ceded Several articles of this Treaty, the Choctaw nation of Indians consent *·°U·S• and hereby cede to the United States, the entire country they own and possess, east of the Missis ippi River; and they agree to remove beyond the Mississippi River, early as practicable, and will so arrange their removal, that as many as possible of their people not exceeding one half of the whole number, shall depart during the falls of 1831 and 1832; the residue to follow during the succeeding fall of 1833; a better opportunity in this manner will be afforded the Government, to extend to them the facilities and comforts which it is desirable should be extended in conveying them to their new homes. Awrrctn IV. The Government and people of the United States are S,,;;.g°"m. hereby obliged to secure to the said Choctaw Nation of Red People the m¤¤¢ ¤<·><=¤f¤d W jurisdiction and government of all the persons and property that may ch°°*“"‘ (333
 * This paragraph was not ratified.