198 CHEROKEE NATION OF INDIANS 
lished as a corner to the States of North and South Carolina; running 
thence south sixty-eight and a quarter degrees west, twenty miles and 
thirty-two chains, to a rock en the Chattuga River at the thirty-fifth 
degree of north latitude, another corner of the boundaries agreed upon 
by the States of North and South Carolina; thence down and with the 
Chattuga to the beginning. 
2. The United States promise that the State of South Carolina sha?l 
pay to the Cherokee Nation, in consideration of the above cession, 
$5,000, within ninety days after the ratification of the treaty by the 
President and Senate, provided the Cherokee Nation and the State of 
South Carolina shall also ratify the same. 
TREATY CONCLUDED MARCH 22, 1816 ;! RATIFIED APRIL 8, 1816.2 
Held at Washington City, D. C., between George Graham, specially au 
thorized as commissioner therefor by the President of the United States, 
and certain chiefs and headmen duly authorized and empowered by the 
Cherokee Nation. 
MATERIAL PROVISIONS. 
1. The north boundary of the lands ceded by the Creek treaty of 
1814, as between such cession and the Cherokees, is declared to extend 
from a point on the west bank of Coosa River opposite the lower end 
of the Ten Islands and above Fort Strother, in a direct line, to the Flat 
Rock or Stone on Bear Creek, a branch of the Tennessee, which line 
shall constitute the south boundary of the Cherokee country lying west 
of Coosa River and south of Tennessee River. 
2, The Cherokees concede to the United States the right to lay off, 
open, and have the free use of all roads through their country north of 
said line necessary to convenient intercourse between the States of 
Tennessee, Georgia, and Mississippi Territory ; also the free naviga- 
tion of all rivers within the Cherokee territory. The Cherokees agree 
to establish and maintain on the aforementioned roads the necessary 
ferries and public houses. 
3. In order to prevent future disputes concerning the boundary 
above recited, the Cherokees agree to appoint two commissioners to ac- 
company the United States commissioners appointed to run said line. 
4. When the United States appoint a commissioner to lay off a road 
as provided for above, the Cherokees shall also appoint one to accom- 
pany him, who will be paid by the United States. 
5. The United States agree to reimburse individual Cherokees for 
losses sustained by them in consequence of the marching of militia and 
United States troops through their territory, amounting to $25,000. 

‘Two treaties appear of the same date and negotiated by the same parties. It is 
to be noted that the first controls a cession to the State of South Carolina and the 
second defines certain other concessions to the United States. 
2? United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VIL, p. 139. 
