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 TREATY WITH THE CHEROKEES. AUG. 6, 1846. 871 TREATY WITH THE CHEROKEES. Articles of a Treaty made and concluded at Washington, in the A“g· $#18% District of Columbia, between the United States of America, by consent of three Commissioners, Edmund Burke, I/Wiliam Armstrong, and Sgnmr Aus'- 8, Albion K. Parris; and John Ross, princival Chidof the Cherokee I 4g}0clma,i0n Nation, David Vann, Vlhlliam S. Coody, Richard Taylor, T H Aug, 17, 1:346. ' Walker, Clement V McNair, Stephen Foreman, John Drew, and Richard Field, Delegates duly appointed by the regularly constituted Authorities of the Cherokee Nation; George W Adair, John A. Bell, Stand Watie, Joseph MZ Lynch, John Huss, and Brice Martin, a Delegation appointed by, and representing, that Portion of the Cherokee Tribe of Indians known and recognized as the “Treaty Party;" John Brown, Captain Dutch, John L. McCoy, Richard Drew, and Ellis Phillips, Delegates appointed by, and representing, that Portion of the Cherokee Tribe of Indians known and recognized as “T/Wstern Cherokees," or “Old Settlers." Wnnnmns serious difficulties have, for a considerable time past, P'°*mbl°· existed between the different portions of the people constituting and V recognized as the Cherokee nation of Indians, which it is desirable should be speedily settled, so that peace and harmony may be restored among them: and whereas certain claims exist on the part of the Cherokee nation, and portions of the Cherokee people, against the United States; therefore, with a view to the final and amicable settlement of the difficulties and claims before mentioned, it is mutually agreed by the several parties to this convention as follows, viz :—— Axrrcuz I. That the lands now occupied by the Cherokee nation shall be La,,dS(,·w,pi€d secured to the whole Cherokee people for their common use and by Cherokee nabenefit; and a patent shall be issued for the same, including the eight 3,°'Qv2’olf; Tgsggd hundred thousand acres purchased, together with the outlet west, and a patent td promised by the United States, in conformity with the provisions re- b°i”“*’d· lating thereto, contained in the third article of the treaty of 1835, and in the third section of the act of Congress, approved May twenty— eighth, .1830, which authorizes the President of the United States, in 1830* °h· 148* making exchanges of lands with the Indian tribes, " to assure the tribe or nation with which the exchange is made, that the United States will forever secure and guarantee to them, and their heirs or successors, the country so exchanged with them; and, if they prefer it, that the United States will cause a patent or grant to be made and executed to them for the same: Provided, always, That such lands R V . t b Shall revert to the United States, if the Indians become extinct, or ;,,t§,,°ii_“§lT ° ° abandon the same." Anrrcnn II. All difliculties and differences heretofore existing between the sev· 3]£5dif$¢¤l¢i¤¤ eral parties of the Cherokee nation are hereby settled and adjusted, ?,:,tcd,SP`£,$S at and shall, as far as possible, be forgotten and forever buried in obliv-· general améosty 1¤¤· All party distinctions shall cease, except so far as they may be °°l“"°d‘ Vox. IX. Tmur. --8