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és 104 TREATY WITH THE CHEROKEES. IS07. lee or Black Fox, the king or head chief of said Cherokee nation, act- Eastern limits ing on the part of, and in behalf of said nation, is one, that the eastern °£;£;,§':°"h° limits of said ceded tract shall be bounded by a line so to be run from 5,,; of im the upper end of the Chickasaw Old Fields, a little above the upper 7, l%6. point of an island, called Chickasaw Island, as will most directly intersect the first waters of Elk river, thence carried to the Great Cumberland mountain, in which the waters of Elk river have their source, then along the margin of said mountain untill it shall intersect lands heretofore ceded to the United States, at the said Tennessee ridge. And in consideration of the readiness shown by the Cherokees to explain, and to place the limits of the land ceded by the said convention out of all doubt; and in consideration of their expenses in attending council, the executive of the United States will direct that the Cherokee nation shall receive the sum of two thousand dollars, to be paid to them by their agent, at uch time as the said executive shall direct, and that the Cherokee hunters, as hath been the custom in such cases, may hunt on said ceded tract, untill by the fullness of settlers it shall become improper. And it is hereby declared by the parties, that this explanation ought to be considered as a just elucidation of the cession made by the first article of said convention. Donn at the point of departure of the line at the upper end of the island, opposite to the upper part of the said Chickasaw Old Fields, the eleventh day of September, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seven. ‘ (Signed) JAS. ROBERTSON, RETURN J. MEIGS. Eunolee, or Black Fox, Richard Brown, Fauquitee, or Glass, So, wo, lo, toh, king’s brother. Falaquokoko, or Turtle at home, Wrrirnssns r1iss:x·r:—Thos. Freeman, Thomas Orme. To the Indian names are suhioined a mark.