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 TREATY WI'I`H THE CHICKASAWS. 1832. 38] To Gurdon S. Hubbard, five thousand five hundred and seventy three dollars. Samuel Miller, seven hundred and ninety dollars. John Bt. Bobea, three thousand dollars. Robert A. Kinzie, four hundred dollars. Jacque Jombeaux, one hundred and fifty dollars. Jacque Jombeaux, senior, fifteen hundred dollars. Medad B. Bobeaux, five hundred and fifty dollars. Noel Vasier, eighteen hundred dollars. Joseph Balies, twelve hundred and fifty dollars. Joseph Shawnier, one hundred and fifty dollars. Thomas Hartzell, three thousand dollars. Bernardus H. Lawton, three thousand five hundred dollars George Walker, seven hundred dollars. Stephen J. Scott, one hundred dollars. Cole Weeks, thirty eight dollars. Timothy B. Clark, one hundred dollars. George Pettijohn, fifty dollars. Thomas Forsyth, five hundred dollars. Antoine Le Clerc, fifty-five dollars. James B. Campbell, fifty-three dollars. John W. Blackstone, sixty dollars. Alexander Robinson, ninety-one dollars. Francis Bulbona, jr. one thousand dollars. John Bt. Chevalier six hundred and sixty dollars. Joseph La Frombois four hundred and forty-one dollars. Leon Bourasau eight hundred dollars. Peter Menard, jr. thirty-seven dollars. Joseph Shoemaker, eighteen dollars. Tunis S. Wendell one thousand dollars. F. H. Countraman, forty dollars. Samuel Morris, one hundred and forty dollars. William Conner, two thousand dollars. John B. Bourie, twelve hundred dollars. JONATHAN JENNINGS, J. W. DAVIS, MARKS CRUME, Commissioners. ARTICLES OF A TREATY Made and entered into between Genl. John Cofee, being duly (3,,;,24;, um, authorised thereto, by the President of the United States, and p,0cj,,m,,,,O,,, the whole Chickasaw Nation, in General Council assembled, at M¤1'¢l11, 1833- the Council House, on Pontitock Creek on the twentieth day of October, 1832. Tm: Chickasaw Nation find themselves oppressed in their present Preamble_ situation; by being made subject to the laws of the States in which they reside. Being ignorant of the language and laws of the white man, they cannot understand or obey them. Rather than submit to this great evil, they prefer to seek a home in the west, where they may live and be governed by their own laws. And believing that they can procure for themselves a home, in a country suited to their wants and condition,