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 58 TREATY WITH THE CREEKS. 1796. And the said lands shall be to the use and under the government of the United States of America. Prandcrl alurays, that whenever any of the trading or military posts mentioned in this treaty, shall, in the opinion of the President of the United States of America, be no longer necessar for the purposes intended by this cession, the same shall revert to, and become a part of the Indian lands. ARTICLE V. 3;,;.,;;,;,,,;. Whenever the President of the United States of America, and the tend dw rim- king of Spain, may deem it advisable to mark the boundaries which gw l‘"° separate their territories, the President shall give notice thereof to the Pm` Creek chiefs, who will furnish two principal chiefs, and twenty hunters to accompany the persons employed on this business, as hunters and guides from the Chocktaw country, to the head of St. Mary’s. The chiefs shall receive each half a dollar per day, and the hunters one quarter of a dollar each per day, and ammunition, and a reasonable value for the meat delivered by them for the use of the persons on this service. ARTICLE VI. Bound", lm The Treaties of Hopewell, between the United States and the Cheekwith Choetaws taws and Chickasaws, and at Holston between the Cherokees and the md Chi¤k¤· United States, mark the boundaries of those tribes of Indians. And °°w°` the Creek nation do hereby relinquish all claims to any part of the territory inhabited or claimed by the citizens of the United States, in conformity with the said treaties. ARTICLE VII. p,;,,,,,,,,,,;,,, The Creek nation shall deliver, as soon as practicable, to the_supergiven up. intendant of Indian affairs, at such place as he may direct, all citizens of the United States; white inhabitants and negroes who are now prisoners in any part of the said nation, agreeably to the treaty at New- York, and also all citizens, white inhabitants, negroes and property taken since the signing of that treaty. And if any such prisoners, negroes or property should not be delivered, on or before the first day of January next, the governor of Georgia may empower three persons to repair to the said nation, in order to claim and receive such prisoners, gegroes and property, under the direction of the President of the United tates. ARTICLE VIH. p,,,,c,,,,,°,;,,, In consideration of the friendly disposition of the Creek nation Indians. towards the government of the United States, evidenced by the stipulations in the present treaty, and particularly the leaving it in the discretion of the President to establish trading or military posts on their lands; the commissioners of the United States, on behalf of the said states, give to the said nation, goods to the value of six thousand dollars, and stipulate to send to the Indian nation, two blacksmiths, with strikers, to be employed for the upper and lower Creeks with the necessary tools. ARTICLE IX. A.,;"",,;,;,,;, All auimosities for past grievances shall henceforth cease, and the cease. contracting parties will carry the foregoing treaty into full execution with all good faith and sincerity. Provided nevertheless, That persons now under arrest, in the state of Georgia, for a violation of the treaty atcliiew-Vork,fare not to be included in this amnesty, but are to abide ecrsiou o law.