216 TREATY WITH THE CREEKS. 1821. first article, that there shall be paid to the Creek nation, by the United States, ten thousand dollars in hand, the receipt whereof is hereby aeknowledged; forty thousand dollars as soon as practicable after the ratification of this convention; five thousand dollars, annually, for two years thereafter; sixteen thousand dollars, annually, for five years thereafter; and ten thousand dollars, annually, for six years thereafter; making, in the whole, fourteen payments in fourteen successive years, without interest, in money or goods and implements of husbandry, at the option of the Creek nation, seasonably signified, from time to time, through the agent of the United States residing with said nation, totthe U. S. to pay Department of War. And, as a further consideration for said cession,
- 0 the eww Of the United States do hereby agree to pay to the state of Georgia what.
€'°°rgm’ th° ever ballance may be found due by the Creek nation to the citizens of alance due by _ . . . . the Creek na- said state, whenever the ame shall be ascertained, m conformity with
- i°¤· the refference made by the commissioners of Georgia, and the chiefs,
head men, and warriors, of the Creek nation, to be paid in five annual instalments, without interest, provided the same shall not exceede the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; the commissioners of Georgia executing to the Creek nation a full and final relinquishment of all the claims of the citizens of Georgia against the Creek nation, for property taken or destroyed prior to the actlof Congress of one thousand eight hundred and two, regulating the intercourse with the Indian tribes. The pm,;,;,,,,; Am-. 5. The President of the United States shall cause the line to to cansethe line be run from the head of Flint river to the Chatahooche river, and the “’ be ru"- &°‘ reservations made to the Creek nation to be laid oil] in the manner specified in the first, second, and third, articles of this treaty, at such time and in such manner as he may deem proper, giving timely notice to the Creek nation; and this Convention shall be obligatory on the contracting parties, as soon as the same shall have been ratified by the government of the United States. Done at the Indian Spring, this eighth day of January, A. D. eighteen hundred and twenty-one. D. M. FORNEY, D. MERIWETHER, WM. M‘INTOSH. Tustunnugee Hopoie, Chaughle Micco, Efau Emauthlau, Isfaune Tustunnuggee Haujo, Iéloloughlahnl, or Col. Blue, YV2u gkhlucco Haujo, ussetau ieee, tc u au o, Sotetan Haujo, Alabama 'llustunnuggee, Etomme Tustunnuggee. Holoughlan Tustunnuggee, Taskagee Emauthlau, Auhauluck Yohola, Tuckle Luslee, Oseachee Tustunnuggee, Tuckte Lustee Haujo, Houpauthlee Tustunnuggee, gontepee Dmauthlau, Ilgenepaurpaughtoochie, ot 8 OIC, CHC in IXICO, JosephpMarshall, Tusekeah Haujo. Tuskeenaheocki, In presence of I. M<Intosh, David Adams, Daniel Newnan, Commissioners of Georgia. D. B. Mitchell, Agent for I. A. William Meriwether, Secretary U. S. C.
- VilliamwCook, Secretary C. G. William Hamhly. Sl. Hawkins, George Lovett,
nterpre rs, To the Indian names are subjoined n mark and seal
