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 386 TREATY WITH THE CHICKASAlVS. 1832. as soon as possible, for the foregoing purpose, the President of the United States is authorised to commence the survey of the land as soon as may be practicable, after the ratification of this treaty. Annuities tp Amucm: XII. The Chickasaws feel grateful to their old chiefs, for chiefs, Src. their long and faithful services, in attending to the business of the nation. They believe it a duty, to keep, them from want in their old and declining age—with those feelings, they have looked upon their old and be loved chief Tish-o-mingo, who is now grown old, and is poor and not able to live, in that comfort, which his valuable life and great merit deserve. It is therefore determined to give him out of the national funds, one hundred dollars a year during the balance of his life, and the nation request him to receive it, as a token of their kind feelings for him, on account of his long and valuable services. Annuity ,0 Our old and beloved Queen Puc-caun-la, is now very old and very Queen Pac- poor. Justice says the nation ought not to let her suffer in her old age; °°““‘l°· it is therefore determined to give her out of the national funds, fifty dol. lars a year during her life, the money to be put in the hands of the agent to be laid out for her support, under his direction, with the advice of the chiefs. Boundary iinn Amrcnn XIII. The boundary line between the lands of the Chickabetween Chick- saws and Choctaws, has never been run, or properly defined, and as the 'ggxgsxg Choctaws have sold their country to the United States, they now have ` no interest in the decision of that question. It is therefore agreed to call on the old Choctaw chiefs to determine the line to be run, between the Chickasaws and their former country. The Chickasaws, by a treaty made with the United States at Franklin in Tennessee, in Aug. 1830,(a) declared their line to run as follows, to wit: Beginning at the mouth of Oak tibby-haw and running up said stream to a point, being a marked tree, on the old Natches road, one mile southwardly from Wall‘s old place. Thence with the Choctaw boundary, and along it, westwardly through the Tunicha old fields, to a point on the Mississippi river, about twenty-eight miles by water, below where the St. Francis river enters said stream on the west side. It is now agreed, that the surveys of the Choctaw country which are now in progress, shall not cross the line untill the true line shall be decided and determined; which shall be done as follows, the agent of the Choctaws on the west side of the Mississippi shall call on the old and intelligent chiefs of that nation, and lay before them the line as claimed by the Chickasaws at the Franklin treaty, and if the Choctaws shall determine that line to be correct, then it shall be established and made the permanent line, but if the Choctaws say the line strikes the Mississippi river higher up said stream, then the best evidence which can be_had from both nations, shall be taken by the agents of both nations, and submitted to the President of the United States for his decision, and on such evidence, the President will determine the true line on principles of strict justice. Lislof ,.nS,,,.v,,_ Awrtenn XIV. As soon as the surveys are made, it shall be the duty ions. of the chiefs, with the advice and assistance of the agent to cause a correct list to be made out of all and every tract of land, which shall be reserved, for the use and benefit of the Chickasaw people, for their residence, as is provided for in the fourth article of this treaty, which list, will designate the sections of land, which are set apart for each family or individual in the nation, shewing the precise tracts which shall belong to each and every one of them, which list shall be returned to the register of the land office, and he shall make a record of the same, in his office, to prevent him from offering any of said tracts of land for sale, and also as evidence of each person’s lands. All the residue of the lands will be offered by the President for sale. (a) This treaty appears not to have been finally concluded.