352 CHEROKEE NATION OF INDIANS. 
on the 9th of July, 1868,1 between N. G. Taylor, commissioner on be- 
half of the United States, and the principal chiefs and delegates repre- 
senting the Cherokee Nation. The reasons rendering this treaty both 
desirable and necessary are thus set forth in the preamble, viz: 
Whereas the feuds and dissensions which for many years divided the Cherokees 
and retarded their progress and civilization have ceased to exist, and there remains 
no longer any cause for maintaining the political divisions and distinctions contem- 
plated by the treaty of 19th July, 1866; and whereas the whole Cherokee people 
are now united in peace and friendship, and are earnestly desirous of preserving and 
perpetuating the harmony and unity prevailing among them; and whereas many of 
the provisions of said treaty of July 19, 1866, are so obscure and ambiguous as to render 
their true intent and meaning on important points difficult to define and impossi- 
ble to execute and may become a fruitful source of conflict not only amongst the Chero- 
kees themselves but between the authorities of the United States and the Cherokee 
Nation and citizens; and whereas important interests remain unsettled between the 
Government of the United States and the Cherokee Nation and its citizens, whieh in 
justice to all concerned ought to be speedily adjusted: Therefore, with a view to the 
preservation of that harmony which now so happily subsists among the Cherokees, 
and to the adjustment of all unsettled business growing out of treaty stipulations 
between the Cherokee Nation and the Government of the United States, it is mutu- 
ally agreed by the parties to this treaty as follows, ete. 
Among the more important objects sought to be accomplished, and for 
which provision was made in the treaty, were: 
1. The abolition of all party distinctions among the Cherokees and 
the abrogation of all laws or treaty provisions tending to preserve such 
distinctions. 
2. The boundaries of the Cherokee country are defined in detail and 
as extending as far west as the northeast corner of New Mexico. 
3. The United States reaffirm all obligations to the Cherokees arising 
out of treaty stipulations or legislative acts of the Government. 
4, The United States having by article 2 of the treaty with the Co- 
manches and Kiowas of October 18, 1865, set apart for their use and 
occupation and that of other friendly tribes that portion of the Cherokee 
domain lying west of 98° W. longitude and south of 37° N. latitude; and 
having further, by article 16 of Cherokee treaty of July 19, 1866, set 
apart in effect for the like purpose of settling friendly Indians thereon 
all the remaining Cherokee domain west of 96° W. longitude, agree to 
pay to the Cherokees therefor, including the tract known as the ‘ Chero- 
kee strip,” in the State of Kansas, and estimated to contain in the 
aggregate the quantity of 13,768,000 acres, the sum of $3,500,000. This 
agreement was accompanied with the proviso that the Cherokees should 
further relinquish to the United States all right and interest in and to 
that portion of the Cherokee “ outlet” embraced within the Pan Handle 
of Texas, containing about 3,000,000 acres, as well as that portion within 
New Mexico and Colorado, excepting and reserving, however, all salines 
west of 99° to the Cherokees. 
5. The United States agree to refund to the Cherokees the sum of 

1See document ‘‘ Fortieth Congress, second session — confidential — Executive 3 P.” 
