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the said first mentioned boundary line shall include in this cession all 
the plantations in Waftord’s Settlement, so called, as aforesaid. 
2. In consideration of this cession the United States agree to pay the 
Cherokees $5,000, in goods or cash, upon the signing of the treaty, and 
an annuity of $1,000. 
HISTORICAL DATA. 
NEW TREATY AUTHORIZED BY CONGRESS. 
Congress, under date of February 19, 1799,! appropriated $25,000 to 
defray the expense of negotiating a treaty or treaties with the Indians, 
and again, on the 13th of May, 1800,’ appropriated $15,000 to defray 
the expense of holding a treaty or treaties with the Indian tribes south- 
west of the Ohio River, with the proviso that nothing in the act 
should be construed to admit an obligation on the part of the United 
States to extinguish for the benefit of any State or individual the In- 
dian claim to any iands lying within the limits of the United States. 
Pursuant to the authority conferred by these enactments, President 
Jefferson appointed’ General James Wilkinson, Wim. R. Davie, and Benj. 
Hawkins as commissioners, and they were instructed by the Secretary 
of War to proceed to negotiate treaties with the Cherokees, Creeks, 
Choctaws, and Chicikasaws. 
Objects of the treaty.—The objects sought to be attained with the 
Cherokees were to secure their consent, Ist. To cede to the United 
States all that portion of their territory lying to the northward of a 
direct line to be run from a point mentioned in treaty of October 2, 
1798, on Tennessee River, 1 mile above its junction with the Clinch, to 
the point at or near the head of tie West Fork of Stone’s River, on the 
ridge dividing the waters of the Cumberland ana Duck Rivers which 
is struck by a southwest line from the point where the Kentucky road 
crosses Cumberland River, as described in the treaty of Holston. 
2. That the Tennessee River should be the boundary from its mouth 
to the mouth of Duck River; that Duck River should be the boundary 
thence to the mouth of Rock Creek; and that a direct line should be 
run for a continuation of the boundary from the mouth of Rock Creek 
to the point on the ridge that divides the waters of Cumberland from 
Duck River. 
3. That a road should be opened from the boundary line to a cireular 
tract on Tennessee River at the mouth of Bear River, reserved to the 
United States by treaty of 1786 with the Chickasaws. From this point 
the road should continue until it reached the Choctaw territory, where 
it was to connect with a road through the country of the iatter to 

1 United States Statutes at Large, Vol. I, p, 618. 
2 United States Statutes at Large, Vol. II, p. 82. 
3 The President’s appointment of these commissioners bore date of June 12, 1801- 
