354 CHEROKEE NATION OF INDIANS. 
United States, or any State, and no license to trade in the Cherokee 
Nation shall be granted unless approved by the Cherokee council. 
17. Fifty thousand dollars shall be allowed for the expenses of the 
Cherokee delegation in negotiating this treaty, one half to be paid out 
of their national fund. 
18. Executors and administrators of the owners of confiscated prop- 
erty shall have the right, under the third article of the treaty of 1866, to 
take possession of such property. 
19. Twenty-four thousand dollars shall be paid by the Cherokee Na- 
tion to the heir of Bluford West, as the value of a saline and improve- 
ments of which he was dispossessed. 
20. Abrogation is declared of so much of article 7, treaty of 1866, as 
vests in United States courts jurisdiction of causes arising between 
citizens of the Cherokee Nation, and transfers such jurisdiction to the 
Cherokee courts. 
21. Provision of the treaty of 1866 relative to freedmen is reaffirmed ; 
the United States guarantee the Cherokees in the possession of their 
lands and protection from domestic strife, hostile invasions, and aggres- 
sions by other Indian tribes or lawless whites. 
BOUNDARIES OF THE CHEROKEE DOMAIN, 
During the proceedings incident to the negotiation of this treaty the 
question arose as to what constituted the proper western limit of the 
Cherokee country. 
The Cherokees themselves claimed that their territory extended at 
least as far west as 103° west longitude, being the northeast corner of 
New Mexico. Their claim was based in part upon the second article of 
the treaty of 1528,' the first article of the treaty of 1833,? the second 
article of the treaty of 1835,° and the first article of the treaty of 1846.4 
The treaty of 1828 guaranteed to the Cherokees seven millions of 
acres of land, and then declared in the following words: “In addition 
to the seven millions of acres thus provided for, and bounded, the 
United States further guarantee to the Cherokee Nation a perpetual 
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.” 
This guarantee was reaffirmed in similar language by the treaties of 
1833 and 1835, and the guaranty contained in the treaty of 1835 was 
reaffirmed by the treaty of 1846. The question, therefore, to be deter- 
mined was what constituted the extreme western limit of the sover- 
eignty of the United States in that vicinity. 
The colony or province of Louisiana had originally belonged to France. 
1United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 311. 
2Tbid., p. 414. 
8Tbid., p. 478. 
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