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without delay, and to remove all white settlers and other objectionable 
people living to the west of the east boundary of the Cherokee tract. 
4. The United States agree to appraise and pay the value of all Chero- 
kee improvements abandoned by the latter in their removal; also to 
sell the property and improvements connected with the agency, for the 
erection of a grist and saw mill in their new home. 
5. The United States agree to pay the Cherokees $50,000 as the dif- 
ference in value between their old and their new lands; also an annu- 
ity for three years of $2,000 to repay cost and trouble of going after 
and recovering stray stock; also $8,760 in full for spoliations com- 
mitted on them by the Osages or citizens of the United States; also 
$1,200 for losses sustained by Thomas Graves, a Cherokee chief; also 
$500 to George Guess, the discoverer of the Cherokee alphabet, as well 
as the right to occupy a saline; also an annuity of $2,000 for ten years 
to be expended in the education of Cherokee children; also $1,000 for 
the purchase of printing press and type; also, the benevolent society 
engaged in instructing Cherokee children to be allowéd the amount ex- 
pended by it in erection of buildings and improvements; also, the United 
States to release the indebtedness of the Cherokees to the United States 
factory to an amount not exceeding $3,500. 
6. The United States agree to furnish the Cherokees, when they de- 
sire it, a system of plain laws and to survey their lands for individual 
allotment. 
7. The Cherokees agree within fourteen months to leave the lands in 
Arkansas assigned them by treaties of January 8, 1817, and February 
27, 1819. 
8. Bach head of a Cherokee family east of the Mississippi desiring to 
remove to the country described in the second article hereof to be fur- 
nished by the United States with a good rifle, a blanket, a kettle, five 
pounds of tobacco, and compensated for all improvements he may 
abandon; also a blanket to each member of his family. The United 
States to pay expenses of removal and to furnish subsistence for one 
year thereafter. Each head of family taking with him four persons to 
receive $50, 
9. The United States to have a reservation 2 by 6 miles at Fort Gib- 
son, with the right to construct a road leading to and from the same. 
10. Capt. James Rogers to have $500 for property lost and services 
rendered to the United States. 
11. Treaty to be binding when ratified. 
Nore.—The Senate consented to the ratification of this treaty with 
the proviso that the “western outlet” should not extend north of 36°, 
nor to interfere with lands assigned or to be assigned to the Creeks; 
neither should anything in the treaty be construed to assign to the 
Cherokees any lands previously assigned to any other tribe. 
