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138 TREATY WITH THE CHEROKEES. 1816. Perpetual ART.2. There shall be perpetual peace and friendship between all gqaw md me citizens of the United States of America and all the individual, wud8h1p' gomposeing the said Kanzas tribe, Bild all f11B llléndly relations that existed between them before the war shall be, and the same are hereby, renewed. _ P - Am- 3 The undersigned chiefs and warriors, for themselves and rotection of ·_ · _ U. S. aekncw· their said tribe, do hereby acknowledge themselves to be under the prol°dB°d· teetion of the United States of America, and of no other nation, power, or sovereign, whatsoever. In witness whereof, the said N inian Edwards and Auguste Chouteau, Commissioners as aforesaid, and the Chiefs aforesaid, have hereunto subscribed their names and aliixed their seals, this twenty- eighth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen and of the independence of the United States the fortieth. NINIAN EDWARDS, AUGUSTE CHOUTEAU. Cayezettanzaw, or the big chiei Egashabe. Niedapy, Kaehamony, or the Boating down stream, Hazeware, or the buck elk running after Opasheega, the doe, Karahsheengaw, or the little crow, Wahangasby, or the endless, Metanegaw, or the foolish robe, Cayegasheengaw, or the little chief, Wehurasudge, or the red eagle, Manshonskaw, or the white plume, Necolebran, or he who can smell a man, Cayegettsagesheengaw, or the old chief, Mannanedge, Mocupamawny, or the walking cloud, Watankegaw, Washangare, Taritchu, or the cow’s rib. Done in St. Louis, in presence of R. Wash, Secretary to the Commission. T. Paul, C. T. of the C. Ja. Kennerly, C. I. dept. Christian Witt. Gabriel S. Choutenu, ensign M. M. G. H. Kennerly. Thomas Forsyth, I. agent. Taylor Berry. Antoine Barada, Paul Desjardins, Interpreters. To the Indian names are subjoined s mark and seal. ARTICLES OF A TREATY Marek2z, 1816. Made and concluded at the City of Washington, on the twenty- Ratified, April second day ty" March, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, 8, 1816. between George Graham, being specially authorized by the President of the United States thereto, and the undersigned Chiefs and Headmen of the Cherokee Nation, duly authorized and empowered by the said Nation. g,,,,,;,,,, by ARTICLE 1. Whereas the Executive of the State of South Carolina ghegplgzes yp has made an application to the President of the United States to extin- °“‘ ’“° ‘““· guishlthe claim of the Cherokee nation to that part of their lands which lye within the boundaries of the said State, as lately established and agreed upon between that State and the State of North Carolina; and as the Cherokee nation vis disposed to comply with the wishes of their brothers of South Carolina, they have agreed and do hereby agree to cede to the State of South Carolina, and forever quit claim to, the tract 130,,,,,;,.,;,},,, of country contained within the following bounds, viz.: beginning 0H cesmon. the east bank of the Chattuga river, where the boundary line of the Cherokee nation crosses the same, running thence, with the said boun-