ROYCE. ] TREATY OF JULY 19, 1966 339 
Cherokees to be surveyed and allotted among them at the expense of 
the United States. 
21. The United States shall at its own expense cause to be run and 
marked the boundary line between the Cherokee Nation and the States 
of Arkansas, Missouri, and Kansas as far west as the Arkansas River, 
by two commissioners, one of whom shall be designated by the Chero- 
kee national council. 
2°, The Cherokee national council shall have the privilege of appoint- 
ing an agent to examine the accounts of the nation with the United 
States, who shall have free access to all the accounts and books in the 
Executive Departments relating to the business of the Cherokees. 
23. All funds due the nation or accruing from the sale of their lands 
shall be invested in United States registered stocks and the interest 
paid semi-annually on the order of the Cherokee Nation, and applied 
to the following purposes: 55 per cent. for the support of the common 
schools of the nation and educational purposes; 15 per cent. for the 
orphan fund, and 50 per cent. for general purposes, including salaries of 
district officers. The Secretary of the Interior, with the approval of the 
President, may pay out of the funds due the nation, on the order of the 
national council, an amount necessary to meet outstanding obligations 
of the Cherokee Nation, not exceeding $150,000. 
24. Three thousand dollars shall be paid out of the Cherokee funds 
to the Rey. Evan Jones, now in poverty and crippled, as a reward for 
forty years’ faithful missionary labors in the nation. 
25. All bounty and pay of deceased Cherokee soldiers remaining un- 
claimed at the expiration of two years shall be paid as the national 
council may direct, to be applied to the foundation and support of an 
orphan asylum. 
26. The United States guarantee to the Cherokees the quiet and 
peaceable possession of their country and protection against domestic 
feuds and insurrection as well as hostilities of other tribes. They shall 
also be protected from intrusion by all unauthorized citizens of the 
United States attempting to settle on their lands or reside in their ter- 
ritory. Damages resulting from hostilities among the Indian tribes 
shall be charged to the tribe beginning the same. 
27. The United States shall have the right to establish one or more 
military posts in the Cherokee Nation. Nosutler or other person, except 
the medical department proper, shall have the right to introduce spirit- 
uous, vinous, or malt liquors into the country, and then only for strictly 
medical purposes. All unauthorized persons are prohibited from coming 
into or remaining in the Chereckee Nation, and it is the duty of the 
United States agent to have such persons removed as required by the 
Indian intercourse laws of the United States. 
28. The United States agree to pay for provisions and clothing fur- 
nished the army of Appotholehala in the winter of 1861 and 1862 a sum 
not exceeding $10,000. 
