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Alteration ofold boundary.
When to takeeffect.
June 7, 1803.
Proclamation,Dec. 26, 1803.
Art. II. The said line, when thus remarked and re-established, shallform the boundary between the United States and the said Choctawnation, in that quarter, and the said Choctaw nation, for, and in con-sideration of one dollar, to them in hand paid by the said United States ,the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby release to thesaid United States , and quit claim for ever, to all that tract of landwhich is included by the beforenamed line on the north, by the Chicka-sawhay river on the west, by the Tombigby and the Mobile rivers onthe east, and by the boundary of the United States on the south.
Art. III. The chiefs, head men, and warriors, of the said Choctawnation, do hereby constitute, authorise and appoint, the chiefs and headmen of the upper towns of the said nation, to make such alteration inthe old boundary line near the mouth of the Yazou river, as may befound convenient, and may be done without injury to the said nation.
Art. IV. This convention shall take effect and become obligatory onthe contracting parties as soon as the President of the United States ,by and with the advice and consent of the Senate , shall have ratifiedthe same.
In testimony whereof, the parties have hereunto set their hands andaffixed their seals, at Fort Confederation, on the Tombigby in theChoctaw country, this 17th day of October, in the year of ourLord one thousand eight hundred and two, and of the independ-ence of the United States the twenty-seventh.
In behalf of the lower towns and Chickasawhay.
Tusk-o-na Hoo-poi-o, Mingo Poos-koos, 2d,
Mingo Poos-koos, Poosh a Mat-ta-haw.
In behalf of the upper towns.
Oak Chummy, Tuskee, Mai-a-by.
In behalf of the six towns and lower town.
Lat-al-a hom-ah, Mingo, Horn, As-tubby,
Mook-la-hoo-soo poi-eh, Tusk-a hom-ah.
Witnesses Present :—Silas Dinsmore, Agent to the Choctaws. Peter H. Naisa-lis, John Long, Interpreters. John Pitchlynn, Turner Brashears.
To the Indian names are subjoined a mark and seal.
ARTICLES OF A TREATY
Between the United States of America, and the Delawares , Sha-wanoes, Putawatimies, Miamies, Pel River, Weeas, Kickapoos,Piankashaws, and Kaskaskias nations of Indians.
Articles of a treaty made at Fort Wayne on the Miami of the Lake ,between William Henry Harrison, governor of the Indiana territory,superintendent of Indian affairs and commissioner plenipotentiary ofthe United States for concluding any treaty or treaties which may befound necessary with any of the Indian tribes north west of the Ohio ,of the one part, and the tribes of Indians called the Delawares , Shawa-noes, Putawatimies, Miamies and Kickapoos, by their chiefs and headwarriors, and those of the Eel river, Weeas, Piankashaws and Kaskas-