JAMES MADISON, president of the United States of America,
by general John Coffee, John Rhea, and John M'Kee,
esquires, commissioners on the part of the United States, duly
authorized for that purpose, on the one part, and the mingoes,
leaders, captains, and warriors, of the Chactaw nation, in general
council assembled, in behalf of themselves and the whole nation,
on the other part, have entered into the following articles, which,
when ratified by the president of the United States, with the
advice and consent of the senate, shall be obligatory on both
parties:
ARTICLE 1. The Chactaw nation, for the consideration hereafter
mentioned, cede to the United States all their title and claim
to lands lying east of the following boundary, beginning at the
mouth of Ooktibbuha, the Chickasaw boundary, and running from
thence down the Tombigby river, until it intersects the northern
boundary of a cession made to the United States by the Chactaws,
at Mount Dexter, on the 16th November, 1805.
ARTICLE 2. In consideration of the foregoing cession,
the United States engage to pay to the Chactaw nation the sum
of six thousand dollars annually, for twenty years; they also
agree to pay them in merchandise, to be delivered immediately
on signing the present treaty, the sum of ten thousand dollars.
Done and executed in full and open council, at the Choctaw trading
house, this twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, and of the independence
of the United States the forty-first.
Mushoolatubee, his x mark,
Pooshamallaha, his x mark,
Pukshunnubbu, his x mark,
General Terror, his x mark,
Choctaw Eestannokee, his x mark,
General Humming Bird, his x mark,
Talking warrior, his x mark,
David Folsom,
Bob Cole, his x mark,
Oofuppa, his x mark,
Hoopoieeskitteenee, his x mark,
Hoopoieemiko, his x mark,
Hoopoieethoma, his x mark,
Witness:
Tho. H. Williams, secretary to the commission,
John Pitchlynn, interpreter,
Turner Brashear, interpreter,
M. Mackey, interpreter,
Silas Dinsmoor,
R. Chamberlin.
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