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TREATY WITH THE CHEROKEES. 1794. 43 set their hands and seals, in the city of Philadelphia, this seventeenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two. H. KNOX, Secretary of War. lskaqua, or Clear Sky, formerly Katigoslah, or the Prince, N enetooyah, or Bloody Fellow, Téésteki, or Common Disturber, N ontuaka, or the N orthward, Suaka, or George Miller. Chutloh, or King Fisher, ru rnusmncm on Thomas Grooter, Jno. Stagg, junr., Leonard D. Shaw, James Cerey, sworn interpreter to the Cherokee nation. To the Indian names are subjoined seals. TREATY WITH THE CHEROKEE INDIANS. J¤¤¤26,1vs4. Proclamation, Wumnnas the treaty made and concluded on Holston river, on the Ja"` 21* 1'95‘ second day of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, be- A""' P· 39* tween the United States of America and the Cherokee nation of Indians, has not been fully carried into execution by reason of some misunderstandings which have arisen; ARTICLE I. And whereas the undersigned Henry Knox, Secretary for the depart- Treaty ofl-Igl. ment of War, being authorised thereto by the President of the United mn b1¤d¤¤§· States, in behalf of the said United States, and the undersigned Chiefs and Warriors, in their own names, and in behalf of the whole Cherokee nation, are desirous of re-establishing peace and friendship between the said parties in a permanent manner, Do hereby declare, that the said treaty of Holston is, to all intents and purposes, in full force and binding upon the said parties, as well in respect to the boundaries therein mentioned as in all other respects whatever. ARTICLE II. It is hereby stipulated that the boundaries mentioned in the fourth Boundaries to article of the said treaty, shall be actually ascertained and marked in be markedthe manner prescribed by the said article, whenever the Cherokee nation shall have ninety days notice of the time and place at which the commissioners of the United States intend to commence their operation. ARTICLE III. The United States, to evince their justice by amply compensating the Annual nuuw. said Cherooke nation of Indians for all relinquishments of land made ¤¤<=¤ of S00d8- either by the treaty of Hopewell upon the Keowee river, concluded on the twenty-eighth of November, one thousand seven hundred and eighty- five, or the aforesaid treaty made upon Holston river, on the second of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, do hereby stipulate, in lieu of all former sums to be paid annually to furnish the Cherokee Indians with goods suitable for their use, to the amount of five thousand dollars yearly.