56 TREATY WITH THE CREEKS. 1796. Indian reserve. lands, that there shall be reserved, to pe applied to the usc of the Indians of the said village of St. Regxs, lll hkc manner as the stud trapt is to remain reserved, a tract of pnc m1lc squnrc, at caqh of the satd mills, and the meadows on both sides of the S81d Grass rxvcr from the said mill thereon, to its confluence with the uver St. Lawrence. IN ·u:s·r11v1oNY whereof, the said commissioner, the said deputies, the said agents, and the said William Constable and Daniel M‘Cormick, have hereunto, and to two other acts of the same tenor and date, one to remain with the United States, another to remain with the state of N cw—York, and another to rcmmn with the qa1d Seven Nations or tribes of Indians, set their hantis and seals! 1D the exty of New-York, the thirty-first day of May, m the twermeth year of the independence of the United States, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six. Abraham Ogden, Ohaweio, (alias Goudgtream), Egbert Benson, Otiatoharongwan, (alms Colonel Lawns Richard Varlck, QQOk-) James Watson, Wnllnnm Gray, William Constable, Teharagwancgcn, (alias Thomas Wil- Danicl MLCormick, liams). SIGNED, SEALED AND DELIVERED IN THE PRESENCE or Samuel Jones, Recorder of the city of New-York. John Tayler, Recorder of the city of Albany. Joseph Ogden Hoffman, attorney-general of the tate of New-York. To the Indian names are rubjoincd a mark and sunl- A TREATY OF PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP June 29 17% Made and concluded between the President of the United States —··—·#·· of America, on the one Part, and Behalf of the said States, Pmclnmuuon, . . , Marchm 1-,gy_ and the undcrszgned Kings, Cheqfs and Warrtors of the Creek Nation of Indians, on the Part of the said Nation. (a) Swim to aL 'l‘um parties being desirous of establishing permanent peace and m,,,;°,,s of the friendship between the United States and the smd Creek naman, and 3d and 4th arti- the citizens and members thereof; and to remove the causes of war, by
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(a) This treaty was ratified by the President and the Senate of the United States on condition that the third and fourth articles should be modified as follows: The Senate of the United States, two-thirds of the Senators present concurrin , did, by their resolution of the second day of March instant, " consent to, and advise the President ty? the United States, tc ratify the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, made und concluded at Coleraine, in the state of Georgia. on the 29th June, 1796, between the President of the United States of America, on the part and behalf of the said States, and the Kmgs, Chiefs and Warriors of the Creek nation of Indians, on the part of the said nation: Provided, and on condition, that nothing in the third and fourth articles of the said treaty, expressed in the words following, ‘Arlicle Bd, The President of the United States of America shall have full powers, whenever he may deem it adviseablc, to establish a trading or military pcs! on the south stdc of thp Altamaha, on the blufl] about one mile above Bcard’s bluff ; or any where from thence down the sand nver on the lands of the Indians, to garrison the same with any part of the military force of the Umtetl States, to protect tlge post, and to prevent the violation of any of the provisions or regulauons subsxsting between the parucg: And the Indmns do hereby annex to the post aforesaid, a tract of land of five mnlcs square, bordering one side on the river, which post and the lands annexed Knemzp, are hereby ceded tc, and shall bs to the usc, and under the government of the United States of menca.
