178 CHEROKEE NATION OF INDIANS. 
Tn case the Indians should accept the first proposition and cede the 
tract therein described, or a greater quantity, the commissioners were 
to solemnly guarantee the Cherokees the remainder of their country 
and agree to their payment by the United States of either an annuity 
of $4,000, or to deliver them, on the signing of the treaty, goods to the 
amount of $5,000 and the further sum of $20,000 in four equal annual 
installments. 
Refusing the first and accepting the second proposition, they were to 
receive the same guarantee, and an annuity of $3,000, or $5,000 at once 
in goods and $15,000 in three equal annual installments. 
Refusing the first and second and accepting the third proposition, 
the same guarantee was offered and an annuity of $2,000, or $5,000 in 
goods on signing the treaty and $10,000 in two equal annual install- 
ments. 
Accepting the fourth proposition, to the exclusion of the other three, 
the same guarantee was to be given, together with an annuity of $1,000, 
or $5,000 in goods on signing the treaty and the same amount during 
the year 1799. 
It was also represented by the Secretary of War that the arts and 
practices used to obtain Indian land in defiance of treaties and the 
laws, at the risk of involving the whole country in war, had become 
so daring, and received such countenance from persons of prominent 
influence, as to render it necessary that the means to countervail them 
should be augmented. To this end, as well as to more effectually secure 
to the United States the advantages of the land which should be ob- 
tained by the treaty, the commissioners were instructed to secure the 
insertion into the treaty of provisions of the following import: 
1. That the new line should be run and marked by two commissioners, 
one of whom should be appointed by the treaty commissioners and the 
other by the Indians. They should proceed immediately upon the sign- 
ing of the treaty to the execution of that duty, upon the completion 
of which three maps thereof should be prepared, one for the use of the 
Secretary of War, one for the executive of the State of Tennessee, and 
one for the Cherokees. 
2. That the Cherokees should at all times permit the President of 
the United States to employ military force within their boundaries for 
the arrest and removal of all persons seeking to make unauthorized 
negotiations with or to incite their hostility toward the United States 
or any of its citizens, or toward any foreign nation or Indian nation or 
tribe within the limits and under the protection of the United States; 
also, of all persons who should settle on or who should attempt to re- 
side in the Indian country without the written permission of the Presi- 
dent. 
3. That the treaty should not be construed either to affect the right 
or title of any ejected settler upon the Indian lands to the tract there- 
tofore occupied by him or in any manner to enlarge his right or claim 
