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happily subsists between them, they do hereby freely, voluntarily and without constraint, covenant and agree,

ARTICLE I.

That the President of the United States may, at line on Tom- his discretion, by a commissioner or commissioners, to be appointed by him, by and with the advice and consent of the senate of the United States, retrace, connect and plainly re-mark the old line of limits, established by and between his Britannic Majesty and the said Choctaw nation, which begins on the left bank of the Chickasawhay river, and runs thence in an easterly direction to the right bank of the Tombigby river, terminating on the same, at a bluff, well known by the name of Hach-a-Tig-geby; but it is to be clearly understood, that two commissioners, to be appointed by the said nation, from their own body, are to attend the commissioner or commissioners of the United States who may be appointed to perform this service, for which purpose the said Choctaw nation shall be seasonably advised by the President of the United States of the particular period at which the operation may be commenced, and the said Choctaw commissioners shall be subsisted by the United States, so long as they may be engaged on this business, and paid for their services, during the said term, at the rate of one dollar per day.

ARTICLE II.

The said line, when thus re marked and re-established, shall form the boundary between the United States and the said Choctaw nation, in that quarter, and the said Choctaw nation, for, and in consideration of one dollar, to them in hand paid by the said United States, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby release to the said United States, and quit claim for ever, to all that tract of land which is included by the beforenamed line on the north, by the Chickasawhay river on the west, by the Tombig. by and the Mobile rivers on the east, and by the boundary of the United States on the south.

ARTICLE III.

The chiefs, head men and warriors of the said Alteration in Choctaw nation do hereby constitute, authorise and line near Misappoint the chiefs and head men of the upper towns sissippi. of the said nation, to make such alteration in the old boundary line, near the mouth of the Yazou river, as may be found convenient, and may be done without injury to the said nation.

TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME.

KNOW YE, That the undersigned, commission- Hoe Buckin ers plenipotentiary of the United States of America, too Pa. 31st Aug. of the one part, and the whole Choctaw nation of the 1803. other part, being duly authorised by the President of the United States, and by the chiefs and head men of the said nation, do hereby establish, in conformity to the convention of fort Confederation, for the line of demarkation recognised in the said convention, the following metes and bounds, viz: Beginning in the channel of the Hatchee Comesa, or Wax river, at the line describ Tombigbee point where the line of limits between the Unit.ed. ed States and Spain crosseth the same; thence up the channel of said river to the confluence of the Chickasaw-hay and Buck-ha-tannee rivers; thence up the channel of the Buck-ha-tannee to Bogue Hooma, or Red creek, thence up the said creek to a pine tree standing on the left bank of the same, and blazed on two of its sides, about twelve links south-west of an old trading path, leading from the town of Mobille, to the Hewanee towns, much worn, but not in use at the present time. From this tree we find the following bearings and distances, viz: south fifty-four degrees thirty minutes west, one chain one link, a black gum, north thirty-nine degrees east, one chain seventy-five links, a water oak; thence with the old British line of partition in its various inflections, to a mulberry post, planted on the right bank of the main branch of Sintee Bogue or Snake creek, where it makes a sharp turn to the south-east, a large broken-top cypress tree standing near the opposite bank of the creek, which is about

three poles wide; thence down the said creek to the Tombigby river; thence down the Tombigby and Mobille rivers, to the above mentioned line of limits, between the United States and Spain, and with the same to the point of beginning. And we, the said commissioners plenipotentiary, do ratify and confirm the said line of demarkation, and do recognise and acknowledge the same to be the boundary which shall separate and distinguish the land ceded to the United States, between the Tombigby, Mobille and Pasca gola rivers, from that which has not been ceded by the said Choctaw nation.

ter, Nov. 16, 1805.

Mount Dex- Articles of a Treaty made and concluded at Mount Dexter, in the Chocktar country, between James Robertson and Silas Dinsmoor, agent of the United States to the Chocktars, commissoners plenipotentiary of the United States, on the one part, and the mingoes, chiefs and warriors of the Chocktare nation of Indians, in council assembled, on the other part.

Cession to

U. States.

ARTICLE I.

The mingoes, chiefs and warriors of the Chocktaw nation of Indians, in behalf of themselves, and the said nation, do by these presents cede to the United States of America all the lands to which they now have or ever had claim, lying to the right of the fol. lowing lines, to say: Beginning at a branch of the Humecheeto where the same is intersected by the present Choctaw boundary, and also by the path lead. ing from Natchez to the county of Washington, usu. ally called M'Clarey's path; thence eastwardly along M'Clarey's path, to the east or left bank of Pearl river; thence on such a direct line as would touch the lower end of a bluff on the left bank of Chickasaw-hay river, the first above the Hiyoowannee towns, called Broken Bluff, to a point within four miles of

the Broken Bluff; thence in a direct line nearly pa-
rallel with the river to a point whence an east line of
four miles in length will intersect the river below the
lowest settlement at present occupied and improved
in the Hiyoowannee town; thence still east, four
miles; thence in a direct line nearly parallel with the
river, to a point on a line to be run from the lower
end of the Broken Bluff, to Faluktabunnee on the
Tombigbee river, four miles from the Broken Bluff;
thence along the said line to Faluktabunnee; thence
east to the boundary between the Creeks and Chock-
taws on the ridge dividing the waters running into
the Alabama from those running into Tombigbee ;
thence southwardly along the said ridge and bounda-
ry to the southern point of the Chocktaw claim. Re-
serving a tract of two miles square, run on meridians
and parallels so as to include the houses and improve
ments in the town of Fuketcheepoonta, and reserving
also a tract of five thousand one hundred and twenty
acres, beginning at a post on the left bank of Tom-
bigbee river, opposite the lower end of Hatchatigbee
Bluff; thence ascending the river four miles front and
two back, one half for the use of Alzira, the other half
for the use of Sophia, daughters of Samuel Mitch-
ill, by Molly, a Chocktaw woman.
The latter re-

serve to be subject to the same laws and regulations
as may be established in the circumjacent country;
and the said mingoes of the Choctaws, request that
the government of the United States may confirm
the title of this reserve in the said Alzira and So-
phia.

ARTICLE II.

Reservation.

For and in consideration of the foregoing cession Consideraon the part of the Choctaw nation, and in full satis- tion. faction for the same, the commissioners of the United States, do hereby covenant and agree with the said nation, in behalf of the United States, that the said States shall pay to the said nation fifty thousand five hundred dollars, for the following purposes, to wit: Forty-eight thousand dollars, to enable the mingoes to discharge the debt due to their merchants and trad. ers; and also to pay for the depredations committed

Claim of Jn.
M'Grew.

Boundaries.

on stock and other property, by evil disposed persons of the said Choctaw nation; two thousand five hundred dollars to be paid to John Pitchlynn, to compensate him for certain losses sustained in the Choctaw coun try, and as a grateful testimonial of the nation's esAnd the said States shall also pay annually to the said Choctaws, for the use of the nation, three thousand dollars in such goods (at neat cost of Philadelphia) as the mingoes may choose, they giving at least one year's notice of such choice.

ARTICLE III.

The commissioners of the United States, on the part of the said States, engage to give to each of the three great medal mingoes, Pukshunubbee-mingo, Hcomastubbee and Pooshamattaha, five hundred dollars in consideration of past services in their nation, and also to pay to each of them an annuity of one hundred and fifty dollars, during their continuance in office. It is perfectly understood, that neither of those great medal mingoes is to share any part of the general annuity of the nation.

ARTICLE IV.

The mingoes, chiefs and warriors of Choctaws, certify that a tract of land, not exceeding fifteen hundred acres, situated between the Tombigbee river and Jackson's creek, the front or river line extending down the river from a blazed white oak standing on the left bank of the Tombigbee, near the head of the shoal, next above Hobukentoopa, and claimed by John M'Grew, was in fact granted to the said M Grew, by Opiomingo Hesnitta and others, many years ago, and they respectfully request the government of the United States to establish the claim of the said M'Grew to the said fifteen hundred acres.

ARTICLE V.

The two contracting parties covenant and agree that the boundary as described in the second article shall be ascertained and plainly marked in such way