24 CHEROKEES. 



nations, parties hereunto assembled around tlie Great Council-fire, 

 kindled in the west, at Tah-le-quah, in order to preserve the existence 

 of our race, to revive and cultivate friendly relations between our 

 several communities, to secure to all their respective rights, and to 

 promote the general welfare, do enter into the following compact : 



"1st. Peace and friendship shall be for ever maintained between 

 the parties to this compact, and between their respective citizens. 



" 2d. Revenge shall not be cherished, nor retaliation practised for 

 offences committed by individuals. 



" 3d. To provide for the improvement of our people in agriculture, 

 manufactures, and other domestic arts, adapted to promote the com- 

 fort and happiness of our women and children, a fixed and perma- 

 nent location on our lands is an indispensable condition. In order, 

 therefore, to secure those important objects, to prevent any future 

 removal, and to transmit to our posterity an unimpaired title to lands 

 guarantied to our respective nations by the United States, we 

 hereby solemnly pledge ourselves to each other, that no nation, party 

 to this compact, shall, without the consent of all the other parties, 

 cede, or in any manner alienate to the United States any part of 

 their present territory. 



" 4th. If a citizen of one nation commit wilful murder, or other 

 crimes, within the limits of another nation, party hereto, he shall be 

 subject to the same treatment as if he were a citizen of that nation. 

 In cases of property stolen, or taken 'by force or fraud, the property, 

 if found, shall be restored to the owner; but if not found, the con- 

 victed person shall pay the full value thereof. 



" 5th. If a citizen of any nation, party to this compact, shall com- 

 mit murder or other crime, and flee from justice into the territory 

 of any other party hereto, such criminal shall, on demand of the 

 principal chief of the nation from which he fled, (accompanied with 

 reasonable proof of his guilt,) be delivered up to the authorities of 

 the nation having jurisdiction of the crime. 



" 6th. We hereby further agree, that if any of our respective citi- 

 zens shall commit murder or other crime upon the person of any such 

 citizen in any place beyond the limits of our several territories, the 

 person so offending shall be subject to the same treatment as if the 

 offence had been committed within the limits of his own nation. 



'' 7th. Any citizen of one nation may be admitted to citizenship 

 m any other nation, party hereto, by the consent of the proper au- 

 thorities of such nation. 



