ROYCE. ] TREATY OF MAY 6, 1828. 229 
TREATY CONCLUDED MAY 6, 1828—PROCLAIMED MAY 28, 1528.' 
Held at Washington City, D. C., between James Barbour, Secretary of 
War, specially authorized therefor by the President of the United States, 
and the chiefs and headmen of the Cherokee Nation west of the Missis- 
sippi. 
MATERIAL PROVISIONS. 
The preamble recites the desire of the United States to secure to the 
Cherokees, both east and west of the Mississippi, a permanent home, 
“that shall never in all future time be embarrassed by having extended 
around it the lines or placed over it the jurisdiction of a Territory or 
State, nor be pressed upon by the extension in any way of any of the 
limits of any existing Territory or State.” 
It also assumes that their actual surroundings, both east and west of 
such river, were unadapted to the accomplishment of such a purpose, 
and therefore the following articles of agreement were made: 
1. The western boundary of Arkansas shall be * * * viz: A line 
shall be run commencing on Red River at the point where the Eastern 
Choctaw line strikes said river, and run due north with said line to the 
river Arkansas; thence in a direct line to the southwest corner of Mis- 
souri. 
2. The United States agree to possess the Cherokees, and to guaran- 
tee it to them forever, * * * of seven million of acres of land, to be 
bounded as follows, viz: Commencing at that point on Arkansas River 
where the eastern Choctaw boundary lines strikes said river, and run- 
ning thence with the western line of Arkansas, as defined in the fore- 
going article, to the southwest corner of Missouri, and thence with the 
western boundary line of Missouri till it crosses the waters of Neasho, 
generally called Grand River; thence due west to a point from which a 
due-south course will strike the present northwest corner of Arkansas 
Territory; thence continuing due south on and with the present western 
boundary line of the Territory to the main branch of Arkansas River; 
thence down said river to its junction with the Canadian River, and 
thence up and between the said rivers Arkansas and Canadian to a 
point at which a line running north and south from river to river will 
give the aforesaid seven million of acres. 
In addition to the seven millions of acres thus provided for and 
bounded, the United States guarantee to the Cherokee Nation a per- 
petual outlet west, and a free and unmolested use of all the country 
lying west of the western boundary of the above described limits and 
as far west as the sovereignty of the United States and their right of 
soil extend. 
3. The United States agree to survey the lines of the above cession 

‘United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 311. 
