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TREATY WITH THE CHOCTAWS. 1825. $35 line shall constitute, and remain, the permanent boundary between the United States and the Choctaws; and the United States agreeing to remove such citizens as may be settled on the west side, to the east side of said line, and prevent future settlements from being made on the west thereof Amicus 2. In consideration of the cession aforesaid, the United {6000 to be States do hereby agree to pay the said Choctaw Nation the sum of six gm '° Ch:,? thousand dollars, annually, forever; it being agreed that the said sum f,::,:?" y' of six thousand dollars shall be annually applied, for the term of twenty years, under the direction of the President of the United States, to the support of schools in said nation, and extending to it the benefits of instruction in the mechanick and ordinary arts of life; when, at the expiration of twenty years, it is agreed that the said annuity may be vested in stocks, or otherwise disposed ot] or continued, at the option of the Choctaw nation. Amicus 3. The eighth article of the treaty aforesaid having pro- Qoooorobe vided that an appropriation of lands shall be made for the purpose of P""i,'l’°,E"* °g raising six thousand dollars a year for sixteen years, for the use of the ’ °r Choctaw Nation; and it being desirable to avoid the delay and expense attending the survey and sale of said land ; the United States do hereby agree to pay the Choctaw Nation, in lieu thereof, the sum of six thousand dollars, annually, for sixteen years, to commence with the present year. And the United States further stipulate and agree to take immediate measures to survey and bring into market, and sell, the fifty-four sections of land set apart by the seventh article of the treaty aforesaid, and apply the proceeds in the manner provided by the said article. Amicnn-4. It is provided by the ninth section of the treaty aforesaid, Pr<>vi¤i¤¤ for that all those of the Choctaw Nation who have separate settlements, and g:‘;"5::'i:e",l;° fall within the limits of the land ceded by said Nation to the United mmm_ States, and desire to remain where they now reside, shall be secured in a tract or parcel of land, one mile square, to include their improvements. It is, therefore, hereby agreed, that all who have reservations in conformity to said stipulation, shall have power, with the consent of the President of the United States, to sell and convey the same in fee simple. . It is further agreed, on the part of the United States, that those Choctaws, not exceeding four in number, who applied for reservations, and received the recommendation of the Commissioners, as per annexed copy of said recommendation, shall have the privilege, and the right is hereby given to them, to select, each of them, a portion of land, not exceeding a mile square, any where within the limits of the cession of 1820, when the land is not occupied or disposed of by the United States; and the right to sell and convey the same, with the consent of the President, in fee simple, is hereby granted. Amicus 5. There being a debt due by individuals of the Choctaw A certain deb; Nation to the late United States' trading house on the Tombigby, the d¤¤ l>Y (E00- United States hereby agree to relinquish the same; the Delegation, on :,”Q¥QQ,,‘; ' the part of their nation, agreeing to relinquish their claim upon the United States, to send a factor with goods to supply the wants of the Choctaws west of the Mississippi, as provided for by the 6th article of the treaty aforesaid. ARTICLE 6. The Choctaw nation having a claim upon the United P¤y¤1¤¤ttgf States, for services rendered in the Pensacola Campaign, and for which §'l';°:::°i¥°:f' it is stipulated, in the llth article of the treaty aforesaid, that payment mma mn. shall be made, but which has been delayed for want of the proper misnvouchers, which it has been found, as yet, impossible to obtain; the United States, to obviate the inconvenience of further delay, and to