416 TREATY WITH THE CHEROKEES. 1833. agreed by the United States, when the_Cheerokees may desire 1t, to give them a plain set of laws, suited to their condition-also when they may wish to lay off their lands and own them individually, a surveyor shall be sent to survey them at the expense of the United States. Blackgryjithe ARTICLE IV. In consideration of the establishment of new bounda- ¤¤d Other W9¥k· ries in part, for the lands ceded to said Cheerokee nation, and in view
- 1%"g£;;°“a1s of the improvement of said nation, the United States will cause torbe
` erected, on land now guarranteed to the said nation, four blacksmith shops, one wagon maker shop, one wheelwright shop, and necessary tools and implements furnished for the same; together with one ton of iron, and two hundred and fifty pounds of steel, for each of said blacksmith shops, to be worked up, for the benefit of the poorer class of red men, belonging to the Cherokee nation—And the United States, will employ four blacksmiths, one wagon·maker, and one wheelwright, to work in said shops respectively, for the benefit of said Cheerokee nation; and said materials shall be furnished annually, and said services continued, so long as the President may deem proper-And said United States, will cause to be erected on said lands, for the benefit of said Cheerokees, eight patent railway corn mills, in lieu of the mills to be erected according to the stipulation of the fourth article of said treaty, of sixth of May, one thousand eight hundred twenty-eight, from the avails of the sale of the old agency. This supple- Arvrrcnm V. These articles of agreement and convention are to be }.‘g:n’:;’{’r;‘;ta considered supplementary, to the treaty before mentioned between the Ante, p_;»,1)if United States, and the Cheerokee nation west of the Mississippi dated sixth of May one thousand eight hundred and {wenty-eight, and not to vary the rights of the parties to said treaty, any further, than said treaty is inconsistent with the provisions of this treaty, now concluded, or these articles of convention and agreement. One mile Anrrcnn VI. It is further agreed by the Cheerokee nation, that one Squaw {OY the mile square shall be reserved and set apart from the lands hereby guaagency ranteed, for the accommodation of the Cheerokee agency; and the location of the same shall be designated by the Cheerokee nation, in conjunction with the agent of the Government of the United States. Treaty binding ARTICLE VII. This treaty, or articles of convention, after the same Whm f36E6d- have been ratified, by the President and Senate shall be obligatory on the United States and said Cheerokee nation. In testimony whereof, the said Montfort Stokes, Henry L. Ellsworth and John F. Schermerhorn, commissioners as aforesaid, and the chiefs and head-rnen of the Cheerokee nation aforesaid have hereunto set their hands, at Fort Gibson on the Arkansas river, on the 14th day of February one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three. MONTFORT STOKES, HENRY L. ELLSWORTH, J. F. SCHERMERHORN. John Jolly, Principal Chiefs. Black C°°t¤ John Rogers, Pres’t Com. W“1l°' W°ll°’· Glass, Pres’t Council. Signed, sealed and delivered in our presence: S. C. Staumbaugh, Sect’y Commrs. M. Arbuckle, Colo. 7th Infy. Geo. Vashon, Agt Chers. west. J no. Campbell, Agt Creeks. Wilson Nesbitt. Peter A. Carns. N. Young, Major U. S. Army. W. Seawell, Lieut. 7th Infy. Wm. Thornton, Clk Committee. Charles Webber, Clk Council. Alexander Brown, Jno. Hambly, Interpreters. To the Indian names are subjcined marks.
