a high-way for the citizens of the United States and the Chickasaws. The Chickasaws shall appoint two discreet men to serve as assistants, guides or pilots, during the time of laying out and opening the road, under the direction of the officer charged with that duty, who shall have a reasonable compensation for their service: Provided always, That the necessary ferries over the water courses crossed by the said road, shall be held and deemed to be the property of the Chickasaw nation.

ARTICLE II.

The commissioners of the United States give to Compensathe Mingco of the Chickasaws, and the deputation of tion. that nation, goods to the value of seven hundred dollars, to compensate him and them and their attendants for the expense and inconvenience they may have sustained by their respectful and friendly attention to the President of the United States of America, and to the request made to them in his name to permit the opening of the road. And as the persons, towns, villages, lands, hunting grounds and other rights and property of the Chickasaws, as set forth in the treaties or stipulations heretofore entered into between the contracting parties, more especially in and by a certificate of the President of the United States of America, under their seal, of the first of July 1794, are in the peace and under the protection of the United States; the commissioners of the United States do hereby further agree, that the President of the United States of America shall take such measures, from time to time, as he may deem proper, to assist the Chickasaws to preserve entire all their rights against the encroachments of unjust neighbors, of which he shall be the judge, and also to preserve and perpetuate friendship and brotherhood between the white people and the Chickasaws

Articles of arrangement made and concluded in Chickasaw the Chickasaw country, between James Robert- 23, 1805.

country, July

Cession of territory.

Compensation.

son and Silas Dinsmoor, commissioners of the United States, of the one part, and the Mingo, chiefs and warriors of the Chickasaw nation of Indians, on the other part.

ARTICLE I.

Whereas the Chickasaw nation of Indians have been for some time embarrassed by heavy debts due to their merchants and traders, and being destitute of funds to effect important improvements in their country, they have agreed, and do hereby agree to cede to the United States, and forever quit-claim to the tract of country included within the following bounds, to wit: Beginning on the left bank of Ohio, at the point where the present Indian boundary adjoins the same; thence down the left bank of Ohio to the Tennessee river; thence up the main channel of the Tennessee river to the mouth of Duck river; thence up the left bank of Duck river to the Columbian high-way. or road leading from Nashville to Natchez; thence along the said road to the ridge dividing the waters running into Duck river from those running into Buffaloe river; thence eastwardly along the said ridge to the great ridge dividing the waters running into the main Tennessee river from those running into Buffa loe river, near the main source of Buffaloe river; thence in a direct line to the great Tennessee river, near the Chickasaw Old Fields, or eastern point of the Chickasaw claim on that river; thence northwardly to the great ridge dividing the waters running into the Tennessee from those running into Cumberland river, so as to include all the waters running into Elk river; thence along the top of the said great ridge to the place of beginning: reserving a tract of one mile square, adjoining to, and below the mouth of Duck river, on the Tennessee, for the use of the chief, O Koy, or Lishmastubbee.

ARTICLE II.

The United States, on their part, and in consideration of the above cession, agree to make the follow. ing payments, to wit: Twenty thousand dollars for

the use of the nation at large, and for the payment of the debts due to their merchants and traders; and to George Colbert and O Koy, two thousand dollars, that is, to each, one thousand dollars. This sum is granted to them at the request of the national council for services rendered their nation, and is to be subject to their individual order, witnessed by the resident agent; also to Chinnubbee Mingo, the king of the nation, an annuity of one hundred dollars during his natural life, granted as a testimony of his personal worth and friendly disposition. All the above payments are to be made in specie.

ARTICLE III.

In order to preclude, forever, all disputes relative to the boundary mentioned in the first section, it is hereby stipulated, that the same shall be ascertained and marked by a commissioner or commissioners on the part of the United States, accompanied by such person as the Chickasaws may choose, so soon as the Chickasaws shall have thirty days notice of the time and place at which the operation is to commence ; and the United States will pay the person appointed on the part of the Chickasaws, two dollars per day, during his actual attendance on that service.

ARTICLE IV.

ceded not to

It is hereby agreed on the part of the United States, that from and after the ratification of these articles, no settlement shall be made by any citizen, or permitted by the government of the United States, on Territory that part of the present cession included between the be inhabited present Indian boundary and the Tennessee, and be- for three tween the Ohio and a line drawn due north from the years. mouth of Buffalue to the ridge dividing the waters of Cumberland from those of the Tennessee river, for the term of three years.

No. 8.

Treaties with the Choctares.

ARTICLE III.

Hopewell,

The boundary of the lands, hereby allotted to the Jan. 3, 1786. hoctaw nation to live and hunt on, within the limits Boundaries.

of the United States of America, is and shall be the following, viz: Beginning at a point on the thirtyfirst degree of north latitude, where the eastern boundary of the Natches district shall touch the same; thence east along the said thirty-first degree of north latitude, being the southern boundary of the United States of America, until it shall strike the eastern boundary of the lands, on which the Indians of the said nation did live and hunt on the twenty-ninth of November, one thousand seven hundred and eightytwo, while they were under the protection of the king. of Great Britain; thence northerly along the said eastern boundary, until it shall meet the northern boundary of the said lands; thence westerly along the said northern boundary, until it shall meet the western boundary thereof; thence southerly along the same to the beginning: saving and reserving, for the establishment of trading posts, three tracts or parcels of land, of six miles square each, at such places as the United States, in Congress assembled, shall think proper; which posts, and the lands annexed to them, shall be to the use and under the government of the United States of America.

Fort Adams, 17th Dec.

1801.

Permission to

A Treaty of Friendship, Limits and Accommodation, between the United States of America, and the Choctaw nation of Indians.

ARTICLE II.

The Mingos, principal men and warriors of the open a road. Choctaw nation of Indians, do hereby give their free consent, that a convenient and durable waggon way may be explored, marked, opened and made, under the orders and instructions of the President of the United States, through their lands; to commence at the northern extremity of the settlements of the Mississippi territory, and to be extended from thence, by such route as may be selected and surveyed, under the authority of the President of the United States, until it shall strike the lands claimed by the Chickasaw nation; and the same shall be and continue for

ever a highway for the citizens of the United States and the Choctaws; and the said Choctaws shall nominate two discreet men, from their nation, who may be employed as assistants, guides or pilots, during the time of laying out and opening the said high-way, or so long as may be deemed expedient, under the direction of the officer charged with this duty, who shall receive a reasonable compensation for their services.

ARTICLE III.

Old line established with British con

The two contracting parties covenant and agree, that the old line of demarcation, heretofore established, by and between the officers of his Britannic Ma- firmed. jesty and the Choctaw nation, which runs in a parallel direction with the Mississippi river, and eastward thereof, shall be retraced and plainly marked, in such way and manner as the President may direct, in the presence of two persons, to be appointed by the said nation; and that the said line shall be the boundary between the settlements of the Mississippi territory and the Choctaw nation.-And the said nation does, by these presents, relinquish to the United States, and quit-claim for ever, all their right, title and pretension to the land lying between the said line and the Mississippi river, bounded south by the thirtyfirst degree of north latitude, and north by the Yazou river, where the said line shall strike the same.

deration,

A Provisional Convention, entered into and made by brigadier general James Wilkinson, of the Fort Confestate of Maryland, commissioner for holding 17th Oct. conferences with the Indians south of the Ohio 1802. river, in behalf of the United States on the one part, and the whole Choctaw nation, by their chiefs, head men and principal warriors, on the other part.

PREAMBLE.

For the mutual accommodation of the parties, and to perpetuate that concord and friendship, which so