TREATY WITH THE CHOCTAWS. 1801.

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the mutual confidence and friendship which are hereby acknowledgedto subsist between the contracting parties shall be maintained and per-petuated.

Art. II. The Mingos principal men and warriors of the Chactawnation of Indians, do hereby give their free consent, that a convenientand durable waggon way may be explored, marked, opened and madeunder the orders and instructions of the President of the United States ,through their lands to commence at the northern extremity of the set-tlements^ the Mississippi Territory, and to be extended from thence,by such roilte as may be selected and surveyed under the authority ofthe President of the United States , until it shall strike the lands claimedby the Chickasaw nation; and the same shall be and continue for ever,a high-way for the citizens of the United States and the Chactaws ; andthe said Chactaws shall nominate two discreet men from their nation,who may be employed as assistants, guides or pilots, during the time oflaying out and opening the said high-way, or so long as may be deemedexpedient, under the direction of the officer charged with this duty, whoshall receive a reasonable compensation for their services.

Art. III. The two contracting parties covenant and agree that theold line of demarkation heretofore established by and between theofficers of his Britannic Majesty and the Chactaw nation, which runsin a parallel direction with the Mississippi river and eastward thereof,shall be retraced and plainly marked, in such way and manner as thePresident may direct, in the presence of two persons to be appointed bythe said nation; and that the said line shall be the boundary betweenthe settlements of the Mississippi Territory and the Chactaw nation.And the said nation does by these presents relinquish to the UnitedStates and quit claim for ever, all their right, title and pretension to theland lying between the said line and the Mississippi river , boundedsouth by the thirty-first degree of north latitude, and north by the Yazooriver, where the said line shall strike the same; and on the part of thecommissioners it is agreed, that all persons who may be settled beyondthis line, shall be removed within it, on the side towards the Mississippi ,together with their slaves, household furniture, tools, materials and stock,and that the cabbins or houses erected by such persons shall be de-molished.

Art. IV. The President of the United States may, at his discretion,proceed to execute the second article of this treaty; and the third arti-cle shall be carried into effect as soon as may be convenient to the go-vernment of the United States , and without unnecessary delay on theone part or the other, of which the President shall be the judge; theChactaws to be seasonably advised, by order of the President of theUnited States , of the time when, and the place where, the re-survey andre-marking of the old line referred to in the preceding article, will becommenced.

Art. V. The commissioners of the United States , for and in consi-deration of the foregoing concessions on the part of the Chactaw nation,and in full satisfaction for the same, do give and deliver to the Mingos,chiefs and warriors of the said nation, at the signing of these presents,the value of two thousand dollars in goods and merchandise, nett costof Philadelphia , the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged; and theyfurther engage to give three sets of blacksmith’s tools to the saidnation.

Art. VI. This treaty shall take effect and be obligatory on the con-tracting parties, so soon as the same shall be ratified by the President

A wagon wayto be madethrough Indianlands.

Boundary.

Indians to benotified of thetime, &c, of re*survey.

$2000 deliver-ed to the In-dians, &c.

Treaty, whento take effect.