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TREATY WITH THE CHICKASAWS. 1834. 455 time, those who can claim reservations, in the offered ranrres of country, shall file their applications and entries with the Regimer and Receiver; that the name of the owner or claimant of the same, may be entered and marked on the general plat, at the office, whereby mistakes in the sales may be avoided, and injuries be prevented. Am. XIII. If the Chickasaws shall be so fortunate as to procure a Provision {0,- home, within the limits of the United States, it is agreed, that with the their removalconsent of the President and Senate so much of their invested stocks, as may be necessary to the purchase of a country for them to settle in, shall be permitted to them to be sold, or the United States will advance the necessary amount, upon a guarantee and pledge of an equal amount of their stocks; also, as much of them may be sold, with the consent of the President and Senate, as shall be adjudged necessary for establishing schools, mills, blacksmiths shops; and for the education of their children; and for any other needful purpose, which their situation and condition, may make, and by the President and Senate be considered, necessary; and on the happening of such a contingency, and information thereof being given of an intention of the whole or any portion of the nation to remove; the United States will furnish competent persons, safely to conduct them to their future destination, and also supplies necessary to the same, and for one year after their arrival at the west, provided the Indians shall desire supplies, to be furnished for so long a period; the supplies so afforded, to be chargeable to the general Chickasaw account, provided the funds of said nation shall be found adequate to the expenses which under this and other articles of this agreement may be required. ART. XIV. It is understood and agreed, that articles twelve and thir- Certain articles teen of the “Treaty of Pontitock," of the twentieth day of October, one ‘1Q{J:{‘?t*"i(°;Y of thousand, eight hundred and thirty-two, and which was concluded, with m,,;nI,gc{O,g,;e` Genl. John Coffee shall be retained; all the other articles of said Ame, rr- 3% treaty, inconsistent in any respect with the provisions of this, are declared to be revoked. Also so much of the supplemental treaty as relates to Colbert Moore; to the bond of James Colbert transferred to Robert Gordon; to the central position of the Land Office; to the establishment of mail routes through the Chickasaw country; and as it respects the privilege given to Jolm Donely; be, and the same are declared to be in full force. ART. XV. By the sixth article of a treaty made with the Chickasaw Boundary unnation, by Andrew Jackson and Isaac Shelby, on the nineteenth day of ‘?§§§"°£;>;v°fOn_ October, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, it was provided S,d8,},d_ that a Commissioner should be appointed, to mark the southern Ante, p. 381. boundary of said cession; now it is agreed that the line which was run and marked by the Commissioner on the part of the United States, in pursuance of said treaty, shall be considered the true line to the extent that the rights and interests of the Chickasaws are conserned, and no farther. ART. XVI. The United States agree that the appropriation made by Apprppyiamn Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, m¤de¤r}l833f° . - · - ra be applied. for carrying into effect " the treaty with the Chickasaws, shall be 18S37m 5g_ applicable to this; to be reimbursed by them; and their agent may preceive and be charged with the same, from time to time, as in the opinion of the Secretary of War, a11y portion may be wanted for national purposes, by the Chickasaws; of which nature and character, shall be considered their present visit to Washington City.