174 CHEROKEE NATION OF INDIANS. 
setting forth the determination of a large combination of persons to 
take possession of certain Indian lands south and southwest of the 
Cumberland, under the pretended authority of certain acts of the legis- 
lature of North Carolina, passed some years previous, for the relief of 
her officers and soldiers of the Continental line. 
In view of the injustice of such intrusions and the mischievous con- 
sequences which would of necessity result therefrom, the President 
recommended that effective provision should be made to prevent them. 
This eventuated in the passage of the act of Congress, approved May 
19, 1796,! providing for the government of intercourse between citizens 
of the United States and the various Indian tribes. 
TREATY CONCLUDED OCTOBER 2, 1798.2 
Held near Tellico, in the Cherokee Council House between George Walton and 
Lieut. Col. Thomas Butler, commissioners on behalf of the United States, 
and the chiefs and warriors of the Cherokee Nation. 
MATERIAL PROVISIONS. 
Owing to misunderstandings and consequent delay in running the 
boundary line prescribed by the treaties of 1791 and 1794, and the 
ignorant encroachment of settlers on the Indian lands within the limits 
of such boundaries before their survey, it became desirable that the In- 
dians should cede more land. The following treaty was therefore con- 
cluded: 
1. Peace and friendship are renewed and declared perpetual. 
2. Previous treaties acknowledged to be of binding force. 
3. Boundaries of the Cherokees to remain the same where not altered 
by this treaty. 
4, The Cherokees cede to the United States all lands within the fol- 
lowing points and lines, viz: From a point on the Tennessee River, 
below Tellico Block House, called the Wild Cat Rock, in a direct line to 
the Militia Spring near the Maryville road leading from Tellico. From 
the said spring to the Chill-howie Mountain by a line so to be run as will 
leave all the farms on Nine Mile Creek to the northward and eastward 
of it, and tobe continued along Chill-howie Mountain until it strikes 
Hawkins’s line. Thence along said line to the Great Iron Mountain, and 
from the top of which a line to be continued in a southeastwardly course 
to where the most southwardly branch of Little River crosses the divis- 
ional line to Tuggaloe River. From the place of beginning, the Wild 
Cat Rock, down the northeast margin of the Tennessee River (not in- 
cluding islands) to a point one mile above the junction of that river with 

1 United States Statutes at Large, Vol. I, p. 496. 
2United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 62. 
