ROYCE. ] TREATY OF OCTOBER 25, 1805. 189 
TREATY CONCLUDED OCTOBER 25, 1805; PROCLAIMED APRIL 24, 1806.! 
Held at Tellico, Tenn., between Return J. Meigs and Daniel Smith, com- 
missioners on behalf of the United States, and certain chiefs and headmen 
of the Cherokees, representing that nation. 
MATERIAL PROVISIONS. 
1. All former treaties providing for peace and prevention of crimes 
are continued in force. 
2. The Cherokees cede to the United States all the land which they 
have heretofore claimed lying to the nerth of the following boundary 
line: Beginning at the mouth of Duck River; thence up the main stream 
of the same to the junction of the fork at the head of which Fort Nash 
stood, with the main south fork ; thence a direct course to a point on the 
Tennessee River bank opposite the mouth of Hiwassa River. If the line 
from Hiwassa should leave out Field’s settlement, it is to be marked 
around his improvement and then continued the straight course; thence 
up the middle of the Tennessee River (but leaving all the islands to the 
Cherokees) to the mouth of Clinch River; thence up the Clinch River 
to the former boundary live agreed upon with the said Cherokees, re- 
serving at the same time to the use of the Cherokees a small tract lying 
at and below the mouth of Clinch River; from the mouth extending 
thence down the Tennessee River from the mouth of Clinch to a notable 
rock on the north bank of the Tennessee in view from Southwest Point; 
thence a course at right angles with the river to the Cumberland road ; 
thence eastwardly along the same to the bank of Clinch River, so as to 
secure the ferry landing to the Cherokees up to the first hill and down 
the same to the mouth thereof, together with two other sections of one 
square mile each, one of which is at the foot of Cumberland Mountain, 
at and near the place where the turnpike gate now stands, the other on 
the north bank of the Tennessee River where the Cherokee Talootiske 
now lives. And whereas from the present cession made by the Chero- 
kees, and other circumstances, the sites of the garrisons at Southwest 
Point and Tellico are become not the most convenient and suitable 
places for the accommodation of the said Indians, it may become ex- 
pedient to remove the said garrisons and factory to some more suitable 
place; three other square mile~ are reserved for the particular disposal 
of the United States on the north bank of the Tennessee opposite to 
and below the mouth of Hiwassa. 
3. In consideration of the foregoing cession the United States agree 
to pay $3,000 at once in merchandise, $11,000 in 90 days, and an annuity 
of $3,000. 
4. The United States to have the use of two roads through the Cher- 
okee country, one from the head of Stone’s River to Georgia road, and 

' Cuited States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 93. 
