212 CHEROKEE NATION OF INDIANS. 
TREATY CONCLUDED JULY 8, 1817; PROCLAIMED DECEMBER 26, 1817.) 
Held at Cherokee Agency, in the Cherokee Nation, between Maj. Gen. 
Andrew Jackson, Joseph McMinn, gorrrnor of Tennessee, and General 
David Merriwether, commissioners plenipotentiary of the United States, 
and the chiefs, headmen, and warriors of the Cherokee Nation east of 
the Mississippi River, and those on the Arkansas River, by their deputies, 
John D. Chisholm and James Rogers, duly authorized by written power 
of attorney. 
MATERIAL PROVISIONS. 
1. The whole Cherokee Nation cede to the United States all the lands 
lying north and east of the following boundaries, viz: Beginning 
at the High Shoals of the Appalachy River, and running thence along 
the boundary line between the Creek and Cherokee Nations westwardly 
to the Chatahouchy River; thence up the Chatahouchy River to the 
mouth of Souque Creek; thence continuing with the general course of 
the river until it reaches the Indian boundary line; and should it strike 
the Turrurar River, thence with its meanders down said river to its 
mouth, in part of the proportion of land in the Cherokee Nation east of 
the Mississippi to which those now on the Arkansas and those about to 
remove there are jusily entitled. 
‘2. The whole Cherokee Nation do also cede to the United States all 
the lands lying north and west of the following boundary lines, viz: 
Beginning at the Indian boundary line thaf runs from the north bank 
of the Tennessee River opposite to the mouth of Hywassee River, at a 
point on the top of Walden’s Ridge where it divides the waters of the 
Tennessee River from those of the Sequatchie River; thence along said 
ridge southwardly to the bank of the Tennessee River at a point near 
to a place called the Negro Sugar Camp, opposite to the upper end of 
the first island above Running Water Town; thence westwardly a 
straight line to the mouth of Little Sequatchie River; thence up said 
river to its main fork; thence up its northermost fork to its source ; and 
thence due west to the Indian boundary line. 
3. A census to be taken of the whole Cherokee Nation during June, 
1818. The enumeration of those east of the Mississippi River to be 
made by &@ commissioner appointed by the President of the United 
States and a commissioner appointed by the Cherokees residing on the 
Arkansas. That of those on the Arkansas by a United States commis- 
sioner and one appointed by the Cherokees east of the Mississippi. 
4, The annuities for 1818 and thereafter to be divided upon the basis 
of said census between Cherokees east of the Mississippi and those cn 
the Arkansas. The lands east of the Mississippi also to be divided, and 
the propor.ion of those moved and agreeing to remove to the Arkansas 
to be surrendered to the United States. 

' United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 156, 
