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TREATY WITH THE CHOCTAWS. 1820. 213 hundred dollars; to William Hays, two hundred dollars; to O’G]eno, two hundred dollars; and to all others who have comfortable houses, a compensation in the same proportion. Anr. 11. It is also provided by the Commissioner of the United Paymeutto States, and they agree in behalf of said states, that those Choctaw Gh°9*°W¤ f°!' Chiefs and Warriors, who have not received compensation for their °°m°°S' services during the campaign to Pensacola, in the late war, shall be paid whatever is due them over and above the value of the blanket, shirt, flap, and leggins, which have been delivered to them. Am. 12. In order to promote industry and sobriety amongst all classes Agent may of the Red people, in this nation, but particularly the poor, it is further ;°"° °"*:].°§”· provided by the parties, that the agent appointed to reside here, shall ,,:1°::,w&_'; °y' be, and he is hereby, vested with full power to seize and contiscate all the whiskey which may be introduced into said nation, except that used at public stands, or brought in by the permit of the agent, or the principal Chiefs of the three Districts. Am-. 13. To enable the Mingoes, Chiefs, and Head Men, of the Provision ro; Choctaw nation, to raise and organize a corps of Light·Horse, consisting raising ¤ <=¤r¤¤ of ten in each District, so that good order may be maintained, and that {gg t'h°"°’ all men, both white and red, may be compelled to pay their just debts, it is stipulated and agreed, that the sum of two hundred dollars shall be appropriated by the United States, for each district, annually, and placed in the hands of the agent, to pay the expenses incurred in raising and establishing said corps; which is to act as executive officers, in maintaining good order, and compelling bad men to remove from the nation, who are not authorized to live in it by a regular permit from the agent. Ama 14. Whereas the father of the beloved Chief Mushulatubbee, Amway u, of the Lower Towns, for and during his life, did receive from the United Mushulatubbee, States the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, annually; it is hereby stipulated, that his son and successor Mushulatubbee, shall annually be paid the same amount during his natural life, to commence from the ratification of this Treaty. Ama 15. The peace and harmony subsisting between the Choctaw Peace and bar- Nation of Indians and the United States, are hereby renewed, continued, ¤’°“YP°’P°*“°l· and declared to be perpetual. Am. 16. These articles shall take effect, and become obligatory on Treatyhinding the contracting parties, so soon as the same shall be ratified by the Pre- '·'h°" "*”H°d· sident, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the United States. [Interlined before signed.] In testimony whereof, the Commissioners Plenipotentiary of the United States, and the Mingoes, Head Men, an Warriors, of the Choctaw Nation, have hereunto subscribed their names and ailixed their seals, at the place above written, this eighteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty; and of the Independence of the United States the forty- nfth. ANDREW JACKSON, . . THOMAS HINDS’ }Comm1ssioners. Medal Mingacs. Chiefs and Warrlm·s. Puckshenubbe, General Humming Bird, Pooshawattaha, James Harrison. Mushulatubbee. Talking Warrior.