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 390 TREATY WITH THE CHICKASAWS. 1832. manner that the reserve tracts are sold &.c. and he is not to claim of the nation any pay for improving said tract of land. _ [The lease which was given to William B. Lewis under the provisions of the treaty of the 19th October 1818 was altered and renewed in a treaty which was signed at Franklin in Tennessee in August 1830 --at which time Robert P. Currin of Franklin had become a partner with William B. Lewis. In said treaty at Franklin the said Lewis & Currin (having failed to obtain salt) agreed to pay the nation a sum of money as therein expressed, for the use of the land during the term of the lease, and also a small quantity of salt, as is also expressed—a part of the money was then paid to the nation in hand, with their obligation to pay the whole balance by instalments. But Mr. Currin, who seems now to be the sole owner of that contract, says he cannot pay us, because the Government refuses to admit his title under the lease. Thus the nation is kept out of the money for the lease. Mr. Currin has addressed a line to Levi Colbert and James Brown, the agents for the Chickasaws, in that business, and also one to Genl. Coffee the United States Commissioner, asking them to place his claim in a situation that he may have the use of the land, or that the Government take the land, and pay him for it at the Government minimum price. The Chickasaw nation feel desirous to have the matter settled amicably, and they have no wish to violate their last contract-but as Robert P. Currin represents to the nation, that he is willing and desirous to settle it, by the nation ceding the land to the Government of the United States, upon the condition that'they pay him for the land at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents an acre, to be paid in one year after the ratification of this treaty-We the Chickasaw nation do hereby cede the said reserve tract of four miles square, to the United States, on the following terms and conditions—they shall pay for the land one dollar and twenty- live cents an acre, three-fourths of the amount to be paid to Robert P. Currin, which shall be in full for all his right and claim to said lands— and one-fourth to the Chickasaw nation, for their interest in changing the lease, to a final sale forever. If this agreement is not approved of by Mr. Currin and ratified by the President and Senate its rejection shall not affect the balance of this treaty.]* In witness of all and every thing herein determined between the United States and the whole Chickasaw nation, in general Council assembled, the parties have hereunto set their hands and seals at the Council house, on Pontitock Creek, in the Chickasaw nation on this twenty-second day of October one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two. JNO. COFFEE. Ish-te-ho-to-pa, Luh-tin-hubbe, Tish-0-min-go, Shop-pow-wc, Levi Colbert, Nin-uck-ah-umba, George Colbert, Im-mah—h00-lo-tubbe, William McGilvery, Il-lup-puh-umba, Samuel Ssly, Pitman Colbert, To-pul-kah, Con-nush·koi,sh-kab, Isaac Albertson, James Well, Im-mubbe, Bah-ha-kab-tubbe, Pis—ta-lah-tubbe, E-bah-kah-tubbe, Isb·tim-o-lut-ka, Captain Thompson, James Brown, New-berry, Im-ms-boo-lo-tubbe, Bah-me-bah-tubbe, Ish·t.s-ha·chab, John Lewis, " This paragraph was not ratified.