TREATY WITH THE CREEKS. 1790.
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the persons convicted shall be punished with the utmost severity thelaws will admit. And the said nations engage to deliver the personsthat may be accused, of their nations, of either of the beforementionedcrimes, at the nearest post of the United States , if the crime was com-mitted within the territory of the United States ; or to the civil authorityof the state, if it shall have happened within any of the United States .
To the Indian names are subjoined a mark and seal.
A TREATY OF PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP
Made and concluded between the President of the United Statesof America , on the Part and Behalf of the said States, and theundersigned Kings, Chiefs and Warriors of the Creek Nationof Indians, on the Part and Behalf of the said Nation.
The parties being desirous of establishing permanent peace andfriendship between the United States and the said Creek Nation, andthe citizens and members thereof, and to remove the causes of war byascertaining their limits, and making other necessary, just and friendlyarrangements: The President of the United States , by Henry Knox,Secretary for the Department of War , whom he hath constituted withfull powers for these purposes, by and with the advice and consent ofthe Senate of the United States , and the Creek Nation, by the under-signed Kings, Chiefs and Warriors, representing the said nation, haveagreed to the following articles.
ARTICLE I.
There shall be perpetual peace and friendship between all the citizensof the United States of America , and all the individuals, towns andtribes of the Upper, Middle and Lower Creeks and Semanolies com-posing the Creek nation of Indians.
ARTICLE II.
The undersigned Kings, Chiefs and Warriors, for themselves and allparts of the Creek Nation within the limits of the United States , doacknowledge themselves, and the said parts of the Creek nation, to beunder the protection of the United States of America , and of no othersovereign whosoever; and they also stipulate that the said Creek Nationwill not hold any treaty with an individual State, or with individualsof any State.
ARTICLE III.
The Creek Nation shall deliver as soon as practicable to the com-manding officer of the troops of the United States , stationed at theRock-Landing on the Oconee river, all citizens of the United States ,white inhabitants or negroes, who are now prisoners in any part of thesaid nation. And if any such prisoners or negroes should not be sodelivered, on or before the first day of June ensuing, the governor ofGeorgia may empower three persons to repair to the said nation, in orderto claim and receive such prisoners and negroes.
Offenders tobe delivered up.
Aug. 7,1790.
Proclamation,Aug. 13, 1790.
Peace andfriendship per-petual.
Prisoners tobe restored.