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ARTICLE XI.

Citizens of

If any citizen or inhabitant of the United States, or of either of the ferritorial districts of the United States, shall go into any town, settle- U. S. commitment or territory belonging to the Cherokees, and shall there committing crimes in Indian territory any crime upon, or trespass against the person or property of any peace- to be punished. able and friendly Indian or Indians, which if committed within the jurisdiction of any state, or within the jurisdiction of either of the said districts, against a citizen or white inhabitant thereof, would be punishable by the laws of such state or district, such offender or offenders, shall be subject to the same punishment, and shall be proceeded against in the same manner as if the offence had been committed within the jurisdiction of the state or district to which he or they may belong, against a citizen or white inhabitant thereof.

ARTICLE XII.

Retaliation

In case of violence on the persons or property of the individuals of either party, neither retaliation or reprisal shall be committed by the restrained. other, until satisfaction shall have been demanded of the party of which the aggressor is, and shall have been refused.

ARTICLE XIII.

The Cherokees shall give notice to the citizens of the United States, of any designs which they may know, or suspect to be formed in any neighbouring tribe, or by any person whatever, against the peace and

interest of the United States.

ARTICLE XIV.

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U. S. to make

That the Cherokee nation may be led to a greater degree of civilization, and to become herdsmen and cultivators, instead of remaining in presents. a state of hunters, the United States will from time to time furnish gratuitously the said nation with useful implements of husbandry, and further to assist the said nation in so desirable a pursuit, and at the same time to establish a certain mode of communication, the United States will send such, and so many persons to reside in said nation as they may judge proper, not exceeding four in number, who shall qualify themselves to act as interpreters. These persons shall have lands assigned by the Cherokees for cultivation for themselves and their successors in office; but they shall be precluded exercising any kind of traffic.

ARTICLE XV.

Animosities to

All animosities for past grievances shall henceforth cease, and the contracting parties will carry the foregoing treaty into full execution cease. with all good faith and sincerity.

ARTICLE XVI.

This treaty shall take effect and be obligatory on the contracting Ratification. parties, as soon as the same shall have been ratified by the President

of the United States, with the advice and consent of the Senate of the United States.

IN WITNESS of all and every thing herein determined between the
United States of America and the whole Cherokee nation, the
parties have hereunto set their hands and seals, at the Treaty
Ground on the bank of the Holston, near the mouth of the French

Broad, within the United States, this second day of July, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one. WILLIAM BLOUNT, (L. s.)

Governor in and over the Territory of the United States of America, south of the River Ohio, and Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Southern District.

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Daniel Smith, Secretary of the Territory of the United States, south of the River Ohio. Thomas Kennedy, of Kaintuckey. James Robertson, of Mero District. Claiborne Watkins, of Virginia. Jno. M. Whitney, of Georgia. Fauche, of Georgia. Titus Ogden, of North-Carolina. John Chisolm, of Washinton District. Robert King. Thomas Gegg.

To the Indian names are subjoined a mark and seal.

Feb. 17, 1792.

Proclamation Feb. 17, 1792.

Increase of annual payment to Indians.

ADDITIONAL ARTICLE

To the Treaty made between the United States and the Cherokees on the second day of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one.

IT is hereby mutually agreed between Henry Knox, Secretary of War, duly authorized thereto in behalf of the United States, on the one part, and the undersigned chiefs and warriors, in behalf of themselves and the Cherokee nation, on the other part, that the following article shall be added to and considered as part of the treaty made between the United States and the said Cherokee nation on the second day of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one; to wit:

The sum to be paid annually by the United States to the Cherokee nation of Indians, in consideration of the relinquishment of land, as stated in the treaty made with them on the second day of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, shall be one thousand five hundred dollars instead of one thousand dollars, mentioned in the said treaty.

In testimony whereof, the said Henry Knox, Secretary of War, and the said chiefs and warriors of the Cherokee nation, have hereunto

set their hands and seals, in the city of Philadelphia, this seven-
teenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand
seven hundred and ninety-two.

Iskaqua, or Clear Sky, formerly
Nenetooyah, or Bloody Fellow,
Nontuaka, or the Northward,
Chutloh, or King Fisher,

H. KNOX, Secretary of War.

Katigoslah, or the Prince,
Téésteki, or Common Disturber,
Suaka, or George Miller.

IN PRESENCE OF

Thomas Grooter, Jno. Stagg, junr., Leonard D. Shaw, James Cerey, sworn interpreter to the Cherokee nation.

To the Indian names are subjoined seals.

TREATY WITH THE CHEROKEE INDIANS.

WHEREAS the treaty made and concluded on Holston river, on the second day of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, between the United States of America and the Cherokee nation of Indians, has not been fully carried into execution by reason of some misunderstandings which have arisen:

ARTICLE I.

And whereas the undersigned Henry Knox, Secretary for the department of War, being authorised thereto by the President of the United States, in behalf of the said United States, and the undersigned Chiefs and Warriors, in their own names, and in behalf of the whole Cherokee nation, are desirous of re-establishing peace and friendship between the said parties in a permanent manner, Do hereby declare, that the said treaty of Holston is, to all intents and purposes, in full force and binding upon the said parties, as well in respect to the boundaries therein mentioned as in all other respects whatever.

ARTICLE II.

It is hereby stipulated that the boundaries mentioned in the fourth article of the said treaty, shall be actually ascertained and marked in the manner prescribed by the said article, whenever the Cherokee nation shall have ninety days notice of the time and place at which the commissioners of the United States intend to commence their opera

tion.

ARTICLE III.

June 26, 1794. Proclamation, Jan. 21, 1795.

Ante, p. 39.

Treaty of Holston binding.

Boundaries to

be marked.

Annual allow

The United States, to evince their justice by amply compensating the said Cherooke nation of Indians for all relinquishments of land made ance of goods. either by the treaty of Hopewell upon the Keowee river, concluded on the twenty-eighth of November, one thousand seven hundred and eightyfive, or the aforesaid treaty made upon Holston river, on the second of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, do hereby stipulate, in lieu of all former sums to be paid annually to furnish the Cherokee Indians with goods suitable for their use, to the amount of five thousand dollars yearly.

For every horse stolen, a sum to be deducted from the annuity.

These articles

in addition to the treaty of Holston.

ARTICLE IV.

And the said Cherokee nation, in order to evince the sincerity of their intentions in future, to prevent the practice of stealing horses, attended with the most pernicious consequences to the lives and peace of both parties, do hereby agree, that for every horse which shall be stolen from the white inhabitants by any Cherokee Indians, and not returned within three months, that the sum of fifty dollars shall be deducted from the said annuity of five thousand dollars.

ARTICLE V.

The articles now stipulated will be considered as permanent additions to the treaty of Holston, as soon as they shall have been ratified by the President of the United States and the Senate of the United States.

IN WITNESS of all and every thing herein determined between the United States of America and the whole Cherokee nation, the parties have hereunto set their hands and seals in the city of Philadelphia, within the United States, this twenty-sixth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four.

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John Thompson, Arthur Coodey, Interpreters. Cantwell Jones, of Delaware. William Wafford, of the State of Georgia. Wm. M.Caleb, of South Carolina. Samuel Lewis, of Philadelphia.

To the Indian titles are subjoined a mark and seal.

A TREATY

Nov. 11, 1794. Between the United States of America, and the Tribes of Indians

Proclamation, Jan. 21, 1795.

Peace and friendship perpetual.

called the Six Nations.

The President of the United States having determined to hold a conference with the Six Nations of Indians, for the purpose of removing from their minds all causes of complaint, and establishing a firm and permanent friendship with them; and Timothy Pickering being appointed sole agent for that purpose; and the agent having met and conferred with the Sachems, Chiefs and Warriors of the Six Nations, in a general council: Now, in order to accomplish the good design of this conference, the parties have agreed on the following articles; which, when ratified by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate of the United States, shall be binding on them and the Six Nations.

ARTICLE I.

Peace and friendship are herely firmly established, and shall be perpetual, between the United States and the Six Nations.

ARTICLE II.

Certain lands

dians.

The United States acknowledge the lands reserved to the Oneida, Onondaga and Cayuga Nations, in their respective treaties with the secured to Instate of New-York, and called their reservations, to be their property; and the United States will never claim the same, nor disturb them or either of the Six Nations, nor their Indian friends residing thereon and united with them, in the free use and enjoyment thereof: but the said reservations shall remain theirs, until they choose to sell the same to the people of the United States, who have the right to purchase.

ARTICLE III.

The land of the Seneka nation is bounded as follows: Beginning on Lake Ontario, at the north-west corner of the land they sold to Oliver Phelps, the line runs westerly along the lake, as far as O-yong-wong-yeh Creek, at Johnson's Landing-place, about four miles eastward from the fort of Niagara; then southerly up that creek to its main fork, then straight to the main fork of Stedman's creek, which empties into the river Niagara, above fort Schlosser, and then onward, from that fork, continuing the same straight course, to that river; (this line, from the mouth of O-yong-wong-yeh Creek to the river Niagara, above fort Schlosser, being the eastern boundary of a strip of land, extending from the same line to Niagara river, which the Seneka nation ceded to the King of Great-Britain, at a treaty held about thirty years ago, with Sir William Johnson;) then the line runs along the river Niagara to Lake Erie; then along Lake Erie to the north-east corner of a triangular piece of land which the United States conveyed to the state of Pennsylvania, as by the President's patent, dated the third day of March, 1792; then due south to the northern boundary of that state; then due east to the south-west corner of the land sold by the Seneka nation to Oliver Phelps; and then north and northerly, along Phelps's line, to the place of beginning on Lake Ontario. Now, the United States acknowledge all the land within the aforementioned boundaries, to be the property of the Seneka nation; and the United States will never claim the same, nor disturb the Seneka nation, nor any of the Six Nations, or of their Indian friends residing thereon and united with them, in the free use and enjoyment thereof: but it shall remain theirs, until they choose to sell the same to the people of the United States, who have the right to purchase.

ARTICLE IV.

The United States having thus described and acknowledged what lands belong to the Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas and Senekas, and engaged never to claim the same, nor to disturb them, or any of the Six Nations, or their Indian friends residing thereon and united with them, in the free use and enjoyment thereof: Now, the Six Nations, and each of them, hereby engage that they will never claim any other lands within the boundaries of the United States; nor ever disturb the people of the United States in the free use and enjoyment thereof.

ARTICLE V.

The Seneka nation, all others of the Six Nations concurring, cede to the United States the right of making a waggon road from Fort Schlosser to Lake Erie, as far south as Buffaloe Creek; and the people of the United States shall have the free and undisturbed use of this road, for the purposes of travelling and transportation. And the Six Nations, and each of them, will forever allow to the people of the United States, a free passage through their lands, and the free use of the harbours and rivers adjoining and within their respective tracts of land,

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Right to make and use a road granted.

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