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 368 TREATY WITH THE SEMINOLES. 1832. Presents to ARTICLE XIII. There shall also be given to each emigrating warrior °¥¤i€¤‘¤¤¤¤· a rifle, moulds, wiper and ammunition and to each family one blanket, Three thousand dollars, to be expended as the President may direct, shall be allowed for the term of twenty years for teaching their children. Blggkgmithe, As soon as half their people emigrate, one blacksmith shall be allowed them, and another when two thirds emigrate, together with one ton of iron and two hundred weight of steel annually for each blacksmith.-- These blacksmiths shall be supported for twenty years. Creek country ARTICLE XIV. The Creek country west of the Mississippi shall be m‘?".°€ ***9 solemnly guarantied to the Creek Indians, nor shall any State or Terrimlsslpph tory ever ave a right to pass laws for the government of such Indians, but they shall be allowed to govern themselves, so far as may be compatible with the general jurisdiction which Congress may think proper to exercise over them. And the United States will also defend them from the unjust hostilities of other Indians, and will also as soon as the boundaries of the Creek country West of the Mississippi are ascertained, cause a patent or grant to be executed to the Creek tribe; 1830, 6h_ [48, agreeably to the 3d section of the act of Congress of May 2d, [28,]1830, entitled "An act to provide for an exchange of lands with the Indians residing in any of the States, or Territories, and for their removal West of the Mississippi." Treaty obliga· Aivrionn XV. This treaty shall be obligatory on the contracting par- 2*;; W ¤¤ mi- ties, as soon as the same shall be ratified by the United States. In testimony whereof the said Lewis Cass, and the undersigned Chiefs of the said tribe have hereunto set their hands at the City of Washington,this 24th day of March,A. D. 1832. LEW: CASS. Opothleholo, Tomack Micco, Tuchebatcheehadgo, William McGilvery, Efiematla, Benjamin Marshall. Tuchebatche Micco, In the presence of Samuel Bell, William R. King, John Tipton, William Wilkins, C. C. Clay, J. Speight, Samuel W. Mardis, J. C. Tsacks, John Crowell, I. A. Inter. preters, Benjamin Marshall, Thomas Carr, John H. Brodnax. To the Indian names are subjoined marks. M,,,,9_,m_ TREATY WITH THE SEMINOLES. Proclamation, April 12, 1834. T1-im Seminole Indians, regarding with just respect, the solicitude manifested by the President of the United States for the improvement of their condition, by recommending a removal to a country more suitable to their habits and wants than the one they at present occupy in the Territory of Florida, are willing that their confidential chiefs, Jumper, Fuck-a-lus-ti-had-jo, Charley Emartla, Coi-had-jo, Holati- Emartla, Ya-ha-hadjo, Sam Jones, accompanied by their agent Major Phagan, and their faithful interpreter Abraham, should be sent at the expense of the United States as early as convenient to examine the country assigned to the Creeks west of the Mississippi river, and should they be satisfied with the character of that country, and of the favorable disposition of the Creeks to reunite with the Seminoles as one