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fork of said river to the top of the Blue Ridge; thence along the Blue 
Ridge to the Unicoy Turnpike Road; thence by straight line to the 
nearest main source of the Chestatee; thence along its main channel 
to the Chattahouchee; and thence to the Creek boundary; it being 
understood that all the islands in the Chestatee, and the parts of the 
Tennessee and Highwassee (with the exception of Jolly’s Island, in the 
Tennessee, near the mouth of the Highwassee) which constitute a por- 
tion of the present boundary, belong to the Cherokee Nation ; and it is 
also understood that the reservations contained in the second article of 
the treaty of Tellico, signed the twenty-fifth October, eighteen hundred 
and five, and a tract equal to twelve miles square, to be located by com- 
mencing at the point formed by the intersection of the boundary line 
of Madison County already mentioned and the north bank of the Ten- 
nessee River, thence along the said line and up the said river twelve 
miles, are ceded to the United States, in trust for the Cherokee Nation, 
as a school fund, to be sold by the United States, and the proceeds 
vested as is hereafter provided in the fourth article of this treaty; and 
also that the rights vested in the Unicoy Turnpike Company by the 
Cherokee Nation * * * are not to be affected by this treaty. 
The foregoing cessions are understood and declared to be in full sat- 
isfaction of all claims of the United States upon the Cherokees on ac- 
count of the cession to a part of their nation who have emigrated or who 
may emigrate to the Arkansas and as a final adjustment of the treaty 
of July 8, 1817. 
2. The United States agree to pay, according to the treaty of July 8, 
1817, for all valuable improvements on land within the country ceded 
by the Cherokees, and to allow a reservation of 640 acres to each head 
of a family (not enrolled for removal to Arkansas) who eleets to become 
a citizen of the United States. 
3. Each person named in a list accompanying the treaty shall have a 
reserve of 640 acres in fee simple, to include his improvements, upon 
giving notice within six months to the agent of his intention to reside 
permanently thereon. Various other reservations in fee simple are made 
to persons therein named. 
4, The reservations and 12-mile tract reserved for a school fund in 
the first article are to be sold by the United States and the proceeds 
invested in good stocks, the interest of which shall be expended in edu- 
cational benefits for the Cherokees east of the Mississippi. 
5. The boundary lines of the land ceded by the first article shall be 
established by commissioners appointed by the United States and the 
Cherokees. Leases made under the treaty of 1817 of land within the 
Cherokee country shall be void. All white people intruding upon the 
lands reserved by the Cherokees shall be removed by the United States, 
under the act of March 30, 1802. 
6. Annuities shall be distributed in the proportion of two-thirds to 
those east to one-third to those west of the Mississippi. Should the 
