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TREATY WITH THE CHOCTAWS. 1801. 67 the mutual confidence and friendship which are hereby acknowledged to subsist between the contracting parties shall be maintained and perpetuated. {Amu I1. The Mingos principal men and warriors of the Chactaw Awagon way nation of Indians, do hereby give their free consent, that a convenient ’}‘1°il:d. and durable waggon way may be explored, marked, opened and made lands]? um under the orders and instructions of the President of the United States, through their lands to commence at the northern extremity of the settlements of the Mississippi Territory, and to be extended from thence, by such route as may be selected and surveyed under the authority of the President of the United States, until it shall strike the lands claimed by the Chickasaw nation; and the same shall be and continue for ever, a high-way for the citizens of the United States and the Chactaws; and the said Chactaws shall nominate two discreet men from their nation, who may be employed as assistants, guides or pilots, during the time of laying out and opening the said high-way, or so long as may be deemed expedient, under the direction of the officer charged with this duty, who shall receive a reasonable compensation for their services. Ama III. The two contracting parties covenant and agree that the Boundary_ old line of demarkation heretofore established by and between the officers of his Britannic Majesty and the Chactaw nation, which runs in a parallel direction with the Mississippi river and eastward thereof, shall be retraced and plainly marked, in such way and manner as the President may direct, in the presence of two persons to be appointed by the said nation ; and that the said line shall be the boundary between the settlements of the Mississippi Territory and the Chactaw nation. And the said nation does by these presents relinquish to the United States and quit claim for ever, all their right, title and pretension to the land lying between the said line and the Mississippi river, bounded south by the thirty-first degree of north latitude, and north by the Yazoo river, where the said line shall strike the same; and on the part of the commissioners it is agreed, that all persons who may be settled beyond this line, shall be removed within it, on the side towards the Mississippi, together with their slaves, household furniture, tools, materials and stock, and that the cabbins or houses erected by such persons shall be demolished. Anr. IV. The President of the United States may, at his discretion, Indians to bg proceed to execute the second article of this treaty; and the third arti- nvtified of the cle shall be carried into effect as soon as may be convenient to the go- g;`;:; &°‘ °fr°' vernment of the United States, and without unnecessary delay on the yi one part or the other, of which the President shall be the judge; the Chactaws to be seasonably advised, by order of the President of the United States, of the time when, and the place where, the re-survey and re-marking of the old line referred to in the preceding article, will be commenced. ART. V. The commissioners of the United States, for and in consi- $2000 ,1,,;;,,,,,, deration of the foregoing concessions on the part of the Chactaw nation, ed to the Inand in full satisfaction for the same, do·give and deliver to the Mingos, d‘““s· &°· chiefs and warriors of the said nation, at the signing of these presents, the value of two thousand dollars in goods and merchandise, nett cost of Philadelphia, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged; and they fiirther engage to give three sets of blacksmith’s tools to the said nation. Arun VI. This treaty shall take effect and be obligatory on the con- Treaty, when tracting parties, so soon as the same shall be ratified by the President w take effect.