Preamble. For the mutual accommodation of the parties,
and to perpetuate that concord and friendship, which so happily
subsists between them, they do hereby freely, voluntarily, and
without constraint, covenant and agree,
ARTICLE 1. That the President of the United States may,
at his discretion, by a commissioner or commissioners, to be appointed
by him, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the
United States, retrace, connect, and plainly remark the old line
of limits, established by and between his Britannic majesty and
the said Choctaw nation, which begins on the left bank of the
Chickasawhay river and runs thence in an easterly direction to
the right bank of the Tombigby river, terminating on the same,
at a bluff well known by the name of Hach-a-Tig-geby, but it is
to be clearly understood, that two commissioners, to be appointed
by the said nation, from their own body, are to attend the commissioner
or commissioners of the United States, who may be appointed to
perform this service, for which purpose the said Choctaw nation
shall be seasonably advised by the President of the United States,
of the particular period at which the operation may be commenced,
and the said Choctaw commissioners shall be subsisted by the United
States, so long as they may be engaged on this business, and paid
for their services, during the said term, at the rate of one dollar
per day.
ARTICLE 2. The said line, when thus remarked and re-established,
shall form the boundary between the United States and the said
Choctaw nation in that quarter, and the said Choctaw nation, for,
and in consideration of one dollar, to them in hand paid by the
said United States, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged,
do hereby release to the said United States, and quit claim for
ever, to all that tract of land which is included by the beforenamed
line on the north, by the Chickasawhay river on the west, by the
Tombigby and the Mobile rivers on the east, and by the boundary
of the United States on the south.
ARTICLE 3. The chiefs, head men, and warriors, of the said
Choctaw nation, do hereby constitute, authorise and appoint, the
chiefs and head men of the upper towns of the said nation, to
make such alteration in the old boundary line near the mouth of
the Yazou river, as may be found convenient, and may be done without
injury to the said nation.
ARTICLE 4. This convention shall take effect and become
obligatory on the contracting parties as soon as the President
of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the
Senate, shall have ratified the same.
In testimony whereof, the parties have hereunto set their hands
and affixed their seals, at Fort Confederation, on the Tombigbee,
in the Choctaw country, this 17th day of October, in the year
of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and two, and of the independence
of the United Sates the twenty-seventh.
In behalf of the lower towns and Chicasawhay:
Tuskona Hoopoio, his x mark,
Mingo Pooskoos, his x mark,
Mingo Pooskoos, 2d, his x mark,
Poosha Mattahaw, his x mark,
In behalf of the upper towns:
Oak Chummy, his x mark,
Tuskee Maiaby, his x mark,
In behalf of the six towns and lower town:
Latalahomah, his x mark,
Mooklahoosoopoieh, his x mark,
Mingo Horn Astubby, his x mark,
Tuskahomah, his x mark,
Witnesses present:
Silas Dinsmoor, Agent to the Choctaws.
John Pitchlynn,
Turner Brashears,
Peter H. Naisalis,
John Long, Interpreters.
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