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66 TREATY WITH THE CHOCTAWS. 1801. Treaty, when Am-. III. The commissioners of the United States may, if they deem ¤>\¤k¤ ¤¥T¤¤¢- it advisable, proceed immediately to carry the liirst article mto opera. tion; and the treaty shall take effect and be obligatory on the contracting parties, as soon as the same shall have been ratified by the President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the United States. In ·r·ns·rnvroNy whereof we, the plenipotentiaries, have hereunto subscribed our names and aiiixed our seals at Chickasaw Blulis, the twenty-fourth of October, 1801. JA. WILKINSON, Bri .Genl., BENJAMIN HAWKIIW, ANDW. PICKENS. Chinmimbe Mingeo, William Glover, Immuttauhaw, '1`Lhomas gre:;,, W C Chummaube, illiam ol . . George Colbert, Mooklushopoie, William M~Gillivrey, Opoieolauhtau, Opishoomnh, Teschoolaubtau, Olohtohopoie, Teschoolauhlau, Minkemattauhau, James Underwood. Tushkoopoie, Wrr1vnssns:—Samue1 Mitchell, Agent to the Chickasnws. Malcom M¤Gee, Interpreter to the Chickasaws. William R. Bootes, Capt. of 3d Reg. and aid·de-camp. J. B. Walbach, Lieut. and aid-de-camp. J. Wilson, Lieut. 3d Regiment. To the Indian name: are auhjoined a mark and nal. A TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP, LIMITS AND ACCOMMO- DATION Dgc_17’]80l_ Between the United States of America and the Chactaw nation Proclamation, of Indzansn May 4, 1:202. Ratjfigd April Tuorns Jnrrnnsou, President of the United States of America, by 30. 180% James Wilkirison, of the state of Maryland, Brigadier-General in the army of the United States, Benjamin Hawkins, of North Carolina, and Andrew Pickens, of South Carolina, commissioners plenipotentiary of the United States on the one part, and the Mingos, principal men and warriors of the Chactaw nation, representing the said nation in council assembled, on the other part, have entered into the following articles an conditions, viz. peeee ,,,,,1 Ama I. Whereas the United States in Congress assembled, did by friendship. their commissioners Plenipotentiary, Benjamin Hawkins, Andrew Pickens, and Joseph Martin, at a treaty held with the chiefs and head men of the Chactaw nation at Hopewell, on the Keowe, the third day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, give peace to the said nation, and receive it into the favor and protection of the United States of America; it is agreed by the parties to these presents respectively, that the Chactaw nation, or such part of it as may reside within the limits of the United States, shall be and continue under the care and protection of the said States; and that