A TREATY OE LIMITS

Between the United States and the Creek nation of Indians, made

and concluded at the Creek Agency, on Flint river, the twenty-

second day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand

eight hundred and eighteen.

James Monroe, President of the United States of America, by DavidBrydie Mitchell, of the state of Georgia , agent of Indian affairs for theCreek nation, and sole commissioner, specially appointed for that pur-pose, on the one part, and the undersigned kings, chiefs, head men, andwarriors, of the Creek nation, in council assembled, on behalf of thesaid nation, of the other part, have entered into the following articlesand conditions, viz:

Art. 1. The said kings, chiefs, head men, and warriors, do herebyagree, in consideration of certain sums of money to be paid to the saidCreek nation, by the government of the United States , as hereinafterstipulated, to cede and forever quit claim,[and do, in behalf of theirsaid nation, hereby cede, relinquish, and forever quit claim,Junto theUnited States , all right, title, and interest, which the said nationhave, or claim, in or unto, the two following tracts of land, situate,lying, and being, within the following bounds; that is to say : 1st. Be-ginning at the mouth of Goose Creek, on the Alatamahau river, thence,along the line leading to the Mounts, at the head of St. Mary’s river,to the point where it is intersected by the line run by the commis-sioners of the United States under the treaty of Fort Jackson, thence,along the said last-mentioned line, to a point where a line, leaving thesame, shall run the nearest and a direct course, by the head of a creekcalled by the Indians Alcasalekie, to the Ocmulgee river; thence,down the said Ocmulgee river, to its junction with the Oconee, thetwo rivers there forming the Alatamahau; thence, down the Ala-tamahau, to the first-mentioned bounds, at the mouth of Goose creek.2d. Beginning at the high shoals of the Appalachee river, and fromthence, along the line designated by the treaty made at the city ofWashington, on the fourteenth day of November, one thousand eighthundred and fifteen, to the Ulcofouhatchie, it being the first large branch,or fork, of the Ocmulgee, above the Seven Islands; thence, up theeastern bank of the Ulcofouhatchie, by the water’s edge, to where thepath, leading from the high shoals of the Appalachie to the shallow fordon the Chatahochie, crosses the same; and, from thence, along the saidpath, to the shallow ford on the Chatahochie river; thence, up the Cha-tahochie river, by the water’s edge, on the eastern side, to Suwanneeold town; thence, by a direct line, to the head of Appalachie; andthence, down the same, to the first-mentioned bounds at the high shoalsof Appalachie.

Art. 2. It is hereby stipulated and agreed, on the part of the UnitedStates , as a full consideration for the two tracts of land ceded by theCreek nation in the preceding article, that there shall be paid to theCreek nation by the United States, within the present year, the sum oftwenty thousand dollars, and ten thousand dollars shall be paid annuallyfor the term of ten succeeding years, without interest; making, in thewhole, eleven payments in the course of eleven years, the present yearinclusive; and the whole sum to be paid, one hundred and twenty thou-sand dollars.

Jan. 22, 1818.

Proclamation,March 28,1818.

The Creekscede two tractsof land to U. S.

Bounds of thefirst tract.

Second tract.

Payment forsaid cession.

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