Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 7.djvu/438

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428 TREATY WITH THE APPALACHICOLAS. 1833. Arkansas. The U. States, in that event, agreeing to pay (3,000) three thousand dollars for the reservation relinquished in the first article of this treaty, in addition to the rights and immunities the parties may acquire under the aforesaid treaty at Payne’s landing. In testimony whereof the Commissioner, James Gadsden, in behalf of the U. States, and the undersigned Chiefs and Warriors have hereunto subscribed their names, and aflixed their seals. Done at Pope’s, Fayette county in the Territory of Florida, this eighteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty- three, and of the independence of the U. States, the fifty-eighth. JAMES GADSDEN. Mnlatto King, or Vacapachacy, Cath·a-hajo, Tustenuggy hajo, Lath-la-yahola, Yellow Hare, Pa-hosts. Tustenuckey, John Walker, Tuse-caia-hajo. Ye0·l0-hajo, Wrrrirnssi-:s—Wm. S. Pope, Sub-Agent. Robert Larance. Joe Miller, Interpreter. Jim Walker, Interpreter. To the Indian names are subjcined marks. RELINQUISHMENT -l“¤€ IB: *833- By certain chiefs, af land reserved by the treaty of 18th Sept, 1823. The undersigned Chiefs for and in behalf of themselves, and Warriors voluntarily relinquish all the privileges to which they are entitled as parties to a treaty concluded at Camp Moultrie on the 18th of Septem- Am_c’p_ WL ber 1823, and surrender to the United States all their right, title and interest to a reservation of land made for their benefit in the additional article of the said treaty and which is described in said article as " commencing on the Chattahoochie, one mile below Econchatimic0’s house; thence up said river four miles; thence one mile west; thence southerly to a point, one mile west of the beginning; thence east to the beginning point." Other lands Anricnn II. For and in consideration of said cession the U. States gfanted by the agree to grant and to convey in three years, by patent to Econcha- ·S·· &’°· timico for the benefit of himself, sub-Chiefs and W8Tl'lOfS three sections ofland; (or contiguous quarter and fractional sections containing a like quantity of acres) to be laid off hereafter under the direction of the President of the U. States so as to embrace the said Chiefs' fields, improvements doc., after the lands shall have been surveyed, and the boundaries to correspond with the public surveys; it being understood that the aforesaid Chief may with the consent and under the advisement of the Executive of the Territory of Florida, at any time previous to the expiration of the above three years dispose of the said sections of land, and migrate to a country of their choice; but that, should they remain on their lands, the U. States will, so soon as Blunt’s band and the Seminoles generally have migrated under the stipulations of the treaty concluded with them, withdraw the immediate protection hitherto extended to the aforesaid Chief, his sub·Chiefs and Warriors, and that they thereafter become subject to the government and laws of the Territory of Florida.