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64 TREATY WITH THE CHEROKEES. 1798. . ‘ ‘ kee hunters shall be at libert Ind s ments shall make it improper, the Chero _ _ ly hulptlhh gills to hum; and {ako game upon the lauds relinquished wld ceded by this TC X1q\11B • t t • r°° Y ARTICLE vm. Nodes of time Due notice shall be given to the principal towns (pf U the Cherokees, for delivering of the time proposed for delivering. the annual stipen s, and sufficient ““““‘“°“# &°· supplies of provisions shall be furnished, by and at the expense of the United States, to subsist such reasonable number that may be sent, or shall attend to receive them during a reasonable time. ARTICLE IX. It is mutually agreed between the parties, that horses stolen and not wuéiéixstgin returned within ninety days, shall be paid for at the rate of sixty dollars each; if stolen by a white man, citinen of the United States, the Indian proprietor shall be paid in cash; and 1f stolen by an Indian from a citizen, to be deducted as expressed in the fourth article of the treaty of Philadelphia.—This article shall have retrospect to the commencement of the first conferences at this place in the present year, and no further. Oblivion of And all animosities, aggressions, thefts and plundermgs, prior topthat . da shall cease and be no longer remembered or demanded on either past aggres dY s sions. Sl S. ARTICLE X. The Cherokee The Cherokee nation agree, that the agent who shall be appointed to agent to have u reside among them from time to time, shall have a sufficient piece of piece of ground. ground allotted for his temporary use. _ _ _ And lastly, This treaty, and the several articles it contains, shall be considered as additional to, and forming a part of, treaties already subsisting between the United States and. the Cherokee nation, and shall be carried into effect on both sides, with all good faith as soon as the same shall be approved and ratified by the President of the United States, and the Senate thereof In Wxrnass of all and every thing herein determined between the United States of America, and the whole Cherokee nation, the parties hereunto set their hands and seals, in the Council-House, near Tellico, on Cherokee ground, and within the United States, this second day of October, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, and in the twenty-third year of the Independence and Sovereignty of the United States. THOS. BUTLER, GEO. WALTON. Ne-ne·tu-ah, or Bloody Fellow, Kettegiskie Ostaiah, Tauquotihee or the Glass J aunne, or John, Chuquilataghe Oortlokecteh, Salleekookoo-olah Chokonnistaller, or Stallion, Tnllo tuskee Noot-lxoietah, Chellokec Kunnateetah, or Rising Fawn, Tuskeegatee, or Long Fellow Utturah, or Skin Worm, Neeka-anneah, or Woman Holder Wee-lee, or Will, Kulsateehee Oolasoteh, Keetakeuskah, or Prince Tlorene, Ch l Jonnurteekee, or Little John, Akigohy Oonatakoteehee, Sawanookeh Kanowsurkee, or Broom, Yonah Equah, or Big Bear Yonah Oolsh, Bear at Home, Keenahkunnah Tunksalenee, or Thick Legs, Ka-wee-soola-skee Oorkullnukce Teekakalohenah Kumamah, or Butterfly Ookousetech, or John Taylor Chattakutcehee Chochu Chee Kanitta, or Little Turkey