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TREATY WITH THE CREEKS. 1826. 289 ARTICLE 17. This treaty, after the same has been ratilied by the President and Treaty binding senate, shall be obligatory on the United States and on the Creek "’b°¤ Wm9d- Nation. In testimony whereof, the said James Barbour, Secretary of War, authorised as aforesaid, and the Chiefs of the said Creek Nation of Indians, have hereunto set their hands, at the City of Washing— ton, the day and year aforesaid. JAMES BARBOUR. O.poth-le-yoholo, Apauly Tustunnuggee, John Stidham, Coosa Tustunnuggee, Mad Wolf; Nahetluc Hopie, Menawee, Selocta, Tnskeekee Tustunnuggee, Legadi, Charles Cornells, Yoholo Micco. Timpoochy Barnard, In presence of Thomas L. McKermey. Lewis Cass. John Crowell, Agent for I. A. Hezekiah Miller. John Ridge, Secretary Creek Delegation. David Vann. To the Indian names are subjoined marks. SUPPLEMENTARY ARTICLE To the Creek Treaty of the iwentyfourth January, 1826. Mm-ci, 3;, 1g2s_ WHEREAS a stipulation in the second article of the Treaty of the twenty- fourth day of January, 1826, between the undersigned, parties to said A““>P· 286· Treaty, provides for the running ofa line " beginning at a point on the western bank of the Chatahoochee river, forty-seven miles below the point where the boundary line between the Creeks and Cherokees strikes the said river, near the Buzzard’s Roost, measuring the said distance in a direct line, and not following the meanders of the said river, and from the point of beginning, running in a direct line to apoint in the boundary line between the said Creeks and the Cherokees, thirty miles west of the said Buzzard’s Roost, thence to the Buzzard’s Roost, and thence with the middle of said river to the place of beginning."And whereas it having been represented to the party to the said Treaty in behalf of the Creek Nation, that a certain extension of said lines might embrace in the cession all the lands which will be found to lie within the chartered limits of Georgia, and which are owned by the Creeks, the undersigned do hereby agree to the following extension of said lines, viz : In the place 0f"‘i~0rty-seven miles," as stipulated in the second article of the Treaty Further cesaforesaid, as the point of beginning, the undersigned agree that it shall °‘°“· be jifty miles, in a direct line below the point designated in the second article of said Treaty; thence running in a direct line to a point in the boundary line between the Creeks and Cherokees, fortyjtve miles west of said Buzzard’s Roost, in the place of " thirty miles," as stipulated in said Treaty; thence to the Buzzard’s Roost, and thence to the place of beginning——it being understood that these lines are to stop at their intersection with the boundary line between Georgia and Alabama, wherever that may be, if that line shall cross them in the direction of the Buzzard’s Roost, at a shorter distance than it is provided they shall run; and provided, also, that if the said dividing line betweenZGeorg1a 37