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TREATY WITH THE CHOCTAWS. 1801.
Treaty, whento take effect.
Dec. 17, 1801.
Proclamation,May 4, 1802.
Ratified April30, 1802.
Peace andfriendship.
Art. III. The commissioners of the United States may, if they deemit advisable, proceed immediately to carry the first article into opera-tion ; and the treaty shall take effect and be obligatory on the contract-ing parties, as soon as the same shall have been ratified by the Presidentof the United States of America , by and with the advice and consentof the Senate of the United States .
In testimony whereof we, the plenipotentiaries, have hereunto sub-' scribed our names and affixed our seals at Chickasaw Bluffs, thetwenty-fourth of October, 1801.
Chinmimbe Mingco,
Immuttauhaw,
Chummaube,
George Colbert,William M‘Gillivray,Opiehoomuh,Olohtohopoie,Minkemattauhau,Tushkoopoie,
William Glover,
Thomas Brown,
William Colbert, W. C.
Mooklushopoie,
Opoieolauhtau,
Teschoolauhtau,
Teschoolauhtau,
James Underwood.
Witnesses: —Samuel Mitchell, Agent to the Chickasaws. Malcom M c Gee, In-terpreter to the Chickasaws. William R. Bootes, Capt. of 3d Reg. and aid-de-camp.J. B. Walbach, Lieut, and aid-de-camp. J. Wilson, Lieut . 3d Regiment.
To the Indian names are subjoined a mark and seal.
A TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP, LIMITS AND ACCOMMO-DATION
Between the United States of-America and the Chactaw nation
of Indians.
Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States of America , byJames Wilkinson, of the state of Maryland , Brigadier-General in thearmy of the United States, Benjamin Hawkins, of North Carolina , andAndrew Pickens, of South Carolina , commissioners plenipotentiary ofthe United States on the one part, and the Mingos, principal men andwarriors of the Chactaw nation, representing the said nation in councilassembled, on the other part, have entered into the following articlesand conditions, viz.
Art. I. Whereas the United States in Congress assembled, did bytheir commissioners Plenipotentiary, Benjamin Hawkins, Andrew Pick-ens , and Joseph Martin, at a treaty held with the chiefs and head menof the Chactaw nation at Hopewell, on the Keowe, the third day ofJanuary, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred andeighty-six, give peace to the said nation, and receive it into the favorand protection of the United States of America ; it is agreed by theparties to these presents respectively, that the Chactaw nation, or suchpart of it as may reside within the limits of the United States , shall beand continue under the care and protection of the said States; and that