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 TREATY WITH THE APPALACHICOLA BAND. June ia, ieee. Proclamation, 1-nn undersigned ones an and an nennir of themselves, and War- ·‘-gg *2:.*,§34- yiors voluntarily relinquish all the privileges to which they are entitled m;,,'i,°;,°;,}a,,, as parties to a treaty concluded at Camp Moultrie on the 18th of Sep- chiefs of land tember 1823, and surrender to the United States all their right, title and "°"""°'}. by 'l‘° interest to a reservation of land made for their benefit in the additional ir§,ui’§;3_S°pt’ article of the said Treaty and which is described in the said article as Ame, p- 224. commencing “ on the Appalachicola, at a point to include Yellow Hare’s improvements, thence up said river four miles; thence, west, one mile; thence southerly to a point one mile west of the beginning; and thence, east, to the beginning point." Anrrcu: II. For, and in consideration of said cession the U. States grim, ings agree to grant, and to convey in three  years by patent to Mulatto granted by the King or Vacapasacy; and to Tustenuggy Hajo, head Chief of Emat- *8** &°· lochees town, for the benefit of themselves, sub-Chiefs, and Warriors, a section and a half of land to each; or contiguous quarter and fractional sections containing a like quantity of acres; to be laid off hereafter under the direction of the President of the U. States so as to embrace the said Chiefs’ fields and improvements, after the lands shall have been surveyed, and the boundaries to correspond with the public surveys; it being understood that the aforesaid Chiefs may with the consent and under the advisement of the Executive of the Territory of Florida, at any time previous to the expiration of the above three years, dispose of the said sections of land, and migrate to a country of their choice; but that should they remain on their lands, the U. States will so soon as Blunt’s band and the Seminoles generally have migrated, under the stipulations of the treaties concluded with them, withdraw the immediate protection hitherto extended to the aforesaid Chiefs and Warriors and that they thereafter become subject to the government and laws of the territory of Florida. Amucnm III. The U. States stipulate to continue to Mulatto King _Anpuizlc0n. and Tustenuggy Hadjo, their sub-Chiefs and Warriors their proportion ¢m¤<=d. ¢· of the annuity of (5000) five thousand dollars to which they are entitled under the treaty of Camp Moultrie, so long as the Seminoles remain in the Territory, and to advance their proportional amount of the said annuity for the balance of the term stipulated for its payment in the treaty aforesaid, whenever the Seminoles finally remove in compliance with the terms of the treaty concluded at Payne’s Landing on 9th May 1832. ARTICLE IV. If at any time hereafter the Chiefs and Warriors, par- p,,,,,;,;,,,, in ties to this agreement, should feel disposed to migrate from the Terri- cue of future tory of Florida to the country allotted to the Creeks and Seminoles in '°‘“°'“l· Arkansas, should they elect to sell their grants of land as provided for in the first article of this treaty, they must defray from the proceeds of the sales of said land, or from their private resources all the expenses of their migration, subsistence &c.—but if they prefer they may by surrendering to the U. States all the rights an_d privilleges acquired under the provisions of this agreement, become parties to the obligations, provisions and stipulations of the treaty concluded at Payne’s landing with the Seminoles on the 9th of May 1832, as a constituent Ante, p. 368. part of said tribe, and re-unite with said tribe in their new abode on the (427)