140 MYTHS OF THE CHEROKEE [eth.ann.19 



press and type to aid in the enlightenment of the people "in their own 

 and our language"; a personal indeinnitv for false imprisonment: and 

 for the removal and reestablishment of the Dwight mission. 



In article tj "it is moreover agreed by the United States, whenever 

 the Cherokee may desire it, to give them a set of plain laws, suited to 

 their condition; also, when they wish to lay off their lands and own 

 them individually, a surveyor shall be sent to make the surveys at the 

 cost of the United States." This article was annulled in 1833 by 

 request of the Cherokee. 



Article 9 provides for the Fort (libson military reservation within 

 the new tract, while article 7 binds the Cherokee to surrender and 

 remove from all their lands in Arkansas within fourteen months. 



Article 8 shows that all this was intended to be only preliminar\' to 

 the removal of the whole Cherokee Nation from the east of the Missis- 

 sippi, a consummation toward which the Jackson administration and 

 the state of Georgia immediately Ijegan to bend every effort. It is as 

 follows: 



Ahticle 8. Tlie Cherokee nation, west of the ^Mississippi, having liythis agreement 

 freed themselves from tlie harassing and ruinous effeots consequent upon a location 

 amidst a white population, and secured to themselves and their posterity, under the 

 solemn sanction of the guarantee of the United States as contained in this agreement, 

 a large extent of unembarrassed country; and that their brothers yet remaining in 

 the states may be induced to join them and enjoy the repose and blessings of such a 

 state in the future, it is further agreed on the i)art of the United States that to each 

 head of a Cherokee family now residing within the chartered limits of Georgia, or 

 of either of the states east of the Mississippi, who may djsire to remove west, shall 

 be given, on enrolling himself for emigration, a good rifle, a blanket, a kettle, and 

 five pounds of tobacco; (and to each member of his family one blanket), also a just 

 compensation for the property he may aljandon, to be assessed by persons to be 

 apiJiiinted by the President of the United States. The cost of the emigration of all 

 such shall also be borne by the United States, and good and suitable ways ojiened 

 and procured for their comfort, accommodation, and support by the way, and pro- 

 visions for twelve months after their arrival at the agency; and to each person, or 

 head cif a family, if he take along with him four pei'sons, shall be paid innnediately 

 on liis arriving at the agency and reporting himself and his family or followers as 

 emigrants or permanent settleri?, in addition to the above, prorliird he and tlieii shall 

 liavc niiif/rateil friiiii n-ithin the cltin-tered liiiiitx i/f the Stale of (Jeor(/i(i, the sum of fifty 

 dollars, and this sum in proportion to any greater or less number that may accompany 

 him from within the aforesaid chartered limits of the State of Georgia. 



A Senate amendment, delining the limits of the western outlet, was 

 afterward found to be impracticable in its restrictions and was can- 

 celed l)v the treaty made at Fort (Tib.son in 1833. ' 



The Washington treaty was signed by several delegates, including 

 Sequoya, four of theni signing in Cherokee charactei's. As the laws 



•Treaty of Washington, May 6, 182S. Indian Treaties, pp. 42:3-428, 1837; treaty of Fort Gibson, 1833, 

 ibid., i)p. .iiU-50,"); see also for synopsis, Royee, Cherokee Nation, Fifth Ann. Rep. Bureau of Ethnology, 

 pp. 229, 230, 1888. 



