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TREATY WITH THE CREEKS. 1790. 35 the persons convicted shall be punished with the utmost severity the laws will admit. And the said nations engage to deliver the persons Otfendersto that may be accused, of their nations, of either of the beforementioned b° d°l*'°*’°d uP- crimes, at the nearest post of the United States, if the crime was committed within the territory of the United States; or to the civil authority of the state, if it shall have happened within any of the United States. AR. ST. CLAIR. To the indian names are mbjoined a mark and seal. A TREATY OF PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP Made and concluded between the President of the United States Aug. 7, 1790. ey" America, on the Part and BehaU` of the said States, and the P,.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,' undersigned Iéngs, Chiq"s and Warriors of the Creek Nation Aug. 13, 1700. of Indians, on the Part and Behalf of the said Nation. Tm: parties being desirous of establishing permanent peace and friendship between the United States and the said Creek Nation, and the citizens and members thereof, and to remove the causes of war by ascertaining their limits, and making other necessary, just and friendly arrangements: The President of the United States, by Henry Knox, Secretary for the Department of War, whom he hath constituted with full powers for these purposes, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the United States, and the Creek Nation, by the undersigned Kings, Chiefs and Warriors, representing the said nation, have agreed to the following articles. ARTICLE I. There shall be perpetual peace and friendship between all the citizens peace and of the United States of America, and all the individuals, towns and f¤’i¤¤d¤hip pertribes of the Upper, Middle and Lower Creeks and Semanolies com- p°"‘°l' posing the Creek nation of Indians. ARTICLE II. The undersigned Kings, Chiefs and Warriors, for themselves and all Indians acparts of the Creek Nation within the limits of the United States, do k'¤°P"]°dy°UP’§· acknowledge themselves, and the said parts of the Creek nation, to be °°°"°°°‘ under the protection of the United States of America, and of no other sovereign whosoever; and they also stipulate that the said Creek Nation will not hold any treaty with an individual State, or with individuals of any State. ARTICLE III. The Creek Nation shall deliver as soon as practicable to the com- Prisoners to manding officer of the troops of the United States, stationed at the be F°¤¤°¤’¤d- Rock-Landing on the Oconee river, all citizens of the United States, white inhabitants or negroes, who are now prisoners in any part of the said nation. And if any such prisoners or negroes should not be so delivered, on or before the first day of June ensuing, the governor of Georgia may empower three persons to repair to the said nation, in order to claim and receive such prisoners and negroes.