WHEREAS, by the first article of a convention between the
United States and the Cherokee nation, entered into at the city
of Washington, on the seventh day of January, one thousand eight
hundred and six, it was intended on the part of the Cherokee nation,
and so understood by the Secretary of War, the commissioner on
the part of the United States, to cede to the United States all
the right, title and interest which the said Cherokee nation ever
had to a tract of country contained between the Tennessee river
and the Tennessee ridge (so called); which tract of country had
since the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety four, been
claimed by the Cherokees and Chickasaws: the eastern boundary
whereof is limited by a line so to be run from the upper part
of the Chickasaw Old Fields, as to include all the waters
of Elk river, any thing expressed in said convention to the contrary
notwithstanding. It is therefore now declared by James Robertson
and Return J. Meigs, acting under the authority of the
executive of the United States, and by a delegation of Cherokee
chiefs, of whom Eunolee or Black Fox, the king or head
chief of said Cherokee nation, acting on the part of, and in behalf
of said nation, is one, that the eastern limits of said ceded
tract shall be bounded by a line so to be run from the upper end
of the Chickasaw Old Fields, a little above the upper point
of an island, called Chickasaw Island, as will most directly
intersect the first waters of Elk river, thence carried to the
Great Cumberland mountain, in which the waters of Elk river have
their source, then along the margin of said mountain until it
shall intersect lands heretofore ceded to the United States, at
the said Tennessee ridge. And in consideration of the readiness
shown by the Cherokees to explain, and to place the limits of
the land ceded by the said convention out of all doubt; and in
consideration of their expenses in attending council, the executive
of the United States will direct that the Cherokee nation shall
receive the sum of two thousand dollars, to be paid to them by
their agent, at such time as the said executive shall direct,
and that the Cherokee hunters, as hath been the custom in such
cases, may hunt on said ceded tract, until by the fullness of
settlers it shall become improper. And it is hereby declared by
the parties, that this explanation ought to be considered as a
just elucidation of the cession made by the first article of said
convention.
Done at the point of departure of the line at the upper end of
the island opposite to the upper part of the said Chickasaw
Oil Fields, the eleventh day of September, in the year one
thousand eight hundred and seven.
Eunolee, or Black Fox, his x mark,
Fauquitee, or Glass, his x mark,
Fulaquokoko, or Turtle at home, his x mark,
Richard Brown, his x mark,
Sowolotoh, king's brother, his x mark.
Witnesses present:
Thomas Freeman,
Thomas Orme.
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