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SATURDAY, September li, 1790.]
THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE
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GAZETTE of the STATE.
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Bv the President of the
United States of America.
A Proclamation.
WHEREAS a Treaty of
peace and friendftiip between
the United States and the
Creek nation y was made and
concluded on the seventh day
•f the present month of Augufl : And where
ms I have, by and with the advice and con
tent cf the Senate, in due form ratified the
said Treaty, Now, therefore, to the end chat
the fame may be observed and performed with
good faith on the part of (he United States, I
have ordered the said Treaty to be herewith
published ; and I do hereby enjoin and re
quire all officers of the United States, civil
and military, and all other citizens and in
habitants thereof, faithfully to observe and ful
f: the fame.
G.VEN under tny hand and the seal of
the United Btates, in the city of New-
York, the fourteenth day of August,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
Seven hundred aud ninety, and in the
fifteenth year of the foveieignty and
independence of the United States.
GEORGE IVA SHI NGI UN.
lb ihe P^ejident,
THOS. JEFFERSON.
GEORGE IvASHINGrON,
' Prejident of the United Mate* of
America.
To a!l to whom tht e Prcfents (hall
come, G^ecTing:
WHEREAS 9 treaty of peace and friend*
ship between the United States of Arne tea,
aud the Creek Na.ion of Indians, was made
and concluded on the seventh day of toe pie
fent month of Auguit, by tLnry Knox, Se
■ eretary for the Department of War who was
■ duly authorised thsreto by the Prcfideat of
the United States, with the advice aud con
sent of the Senate on 'be one part, and the
Kings, Chiefs and Warriors, of the said
Creek Nation, whose names are thereunte
signed, on the other part, which treaty is io
the form and words following
A. Treaty of Peace and Friendship made and
concluded between .the President of the
United States of America, on the part and
behalf the said Statea, and the undersigned
Kings, Chiefs and Warriors, of the Creek
Nation of Indians, on the part and behalf
of the said Nation.
THE parties being desirous of eftabliih
ing permanent peace and friendlhip be
tween the United States and the said Creek
Nation, and the citizens and members there
of, and to remove the causes of war by as
certaining their limits, aud making other ne
oeflary, just and friendly arrangements i The
Vefident of the United Staies, by Henry
K.Ol, Secretary for the Department of War,
wh* n he bath confiituted with full powers
for tt'fc pvirpofcs, by and with the advice
•ad ceiffnt of the Senate of the United States
and the Creek Nation by the vndefigoed
Kingi, Chefs and Wamois, reprtfmung
GEORGIA.
the said Nation, have agreed to the following
articles, viz.
Article i. There (hall be perpetual peace
and friendfliip between all the citizens of the
United States of America, and «11 the indi
viduals, towns and tribes, of the Upper,
Middle and Lower Cieeks and Semanohes,
tompofiug the Creek Nation of Indians.
Ait. X. Tl»e undeiligued Kings, Chiefs
and Warriors, for themselves. and ail parts
of the Creek Nation within the limits of the
United States, do acknowledge tncmi'cjvcs, .
and the fa:d parts of the Creek Nation, to be
under the protection of the United States of
America, and of no other sovereign whom
ever ; and they alio flipuiatc, that the said
C.eek Nation will not hold any treaty with
an individual slate, or with individuals of
any (late.
Art. 3. The Creek Nation (hall deliver,
as'loon as practicable, to the commanding
officer of the troopa of the Unired States,
stationed at the Rock Landing on the Oconee
river, all citizens of the United States, white
inhabitants or negroes, who are now priiouers
in any part of the said nation. And if any
such prisoners or negroes (hould not be so de
livered on or before the firft day of juue eu
fuing, the Governor of Georgia may em
power three persona to repair to the laid na
tion, in order to claim and receive luch pri
soners and negroes.
Art. 4. The boundary between the citi
zens of the United States and the Creek na
tion is, and (hall be, from where the old line
(hikes the river Savannah—thence up the laid
river to a place r n the mod northern branch
of the fame, commonly called the Keowee,
where a north-eatt Las to be drawn from the
top oi the O-cuna mountain lhail interfect—
thence along the said line in a south-west di
rection to Tugcl > river tueace to the top of
the Currahee mountain —uene to the head J
or source of the rnaiu fouth branch of the I
Oconee river, called the Appalachte—thence
down tbe middle of the said main fovuh
branch and river O.onee, to its confluence
with the Oakmulgee, which form the river
Aiatamaha—and thence down the middle of
the said Aiatamaha to the old line on the said
river, and thence along the said old line to
the river St. Marys.
And in order to preclude forever all' dis
putes relatively to the head or source of the
main fouth branch of the river Oconee, at the
f place where it (hall be interceded by the liue
aforefaid, from the Curahec mountain, tbe
fame (hall be afeertained by an able surveyor
on the part of the United States, who (hall be
assisted by three old citizens of Georgia, who
may be appointed by the Governor of the said
state, and three old Creek Chiefs, te be ap*
pointed by the said nation; and the said sur
veyor, citizens and chiefs, (hall assemble for
this purpose on the firfl day of Odober, one 1
thoufaud seven hundred and ninety-one, at
the Rock Landing, on the said river Oconee,
and thence proceed toafeertain the said head
or source of the main fouth branch of the
said river, at the place where it (hall be in
terfeded by the line aforefaid, to be drawn
from the Currahea mountain. And in order
that the said boundary (hail be rendered di-
Hind and well kcown, it (hall be marked by
» line of felled trees at least twenty fset wide,
and thf »re«s chopped on each (Ids from the I
fiU Currahee te the head or (outre
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of the said main fouth branch of the Oconee
river, and thence down the margin of the laid
main louth branch and river Ocouec tor the
dutaucc of twen.y miles, or as much farther
as may beneceda y to mark diiti id y facia d
boundary. And in order to extinguiih f >f*
ever all claims of the Cieek Nation, or any
part thereof to any of the land lyw< to ihe
northward and eadwa d of the beuodary he:e
in deferibed, it is hereby agreed in addition
to the contideratious hcretofo*e made for the
said land, that ihe Uuited State* will cause
certain valu ibie Indian goods now in the fta e
of Georgia, tube delivered to the said Creek
nation, and the laid Un’ted States will al(#
Caute the fjm of one ttiouiani and five hun
dred dollarsto be paidaimually tothe said Cieek
nation. And the un 'C>figned King*. Chiefs
and Warriors, do hereby for thetnfeives and
the whole Creek nation, their hens and de
fceedants, tor ihe confideratlons above-men
tioned, rcleafe, quit claim, relmqutih and
cede, all the land ro the north*aid and e*ltw.
ward of the bound»r.’ heremdeferibed..- ~
Art. 5. -T»>e United States got*
ramee to the Creek Na.iou all tbeb'Htide
within the limits of the United States *0 <he
westward and fouthw.rd ot the bod .dary dc*
feribed in the preceding article.
Art. 6. If any citizen of the U-iited Stafef
or other perlon not being an Indian, (hail at
tempt to fettle on any of the Creeks I mdi,
such person (hall forfeit the protection of the
United Stares, an I the Creeks may puniihluoi
or not as r'uey pieafe.
Art. y. No citizen or inhabitant of the
United States (hall attempt to hunt or dediof
•he g*me on the Creek lands. Nor sh ill aay
such citizen or inhabitant go into the Creek
country without a paflport firff obtained from
the Governor of fame one of the United Stat -s,
or the officer of the troops of ihe United
1 States commanding at the neared military
I port on the fiontiers, or such other perlon
as the prefideat of the United State*
may fiotn time to time authoilc to grab*
fame. w
Art. 9lf any Creek Ifid’anor Indians,or p*r
fon residing among them, or who (hall take
refuge in their nation, dial! commit a robbery
or murder, or other capital crime, on any of
the citizens or inhabitants of the United
Stares, the Creek avion f or town, or tribe,
to which furh offender or offenders mav be
long, (hall He bound to deliver him or then*
op to be ptiniihed according to the laws of
the United States.
Art. 9 If anr citizen or inhabitant of'Tiff
Un ; ted States, or of either t*f the territorial
diffrids cf the United State*, (h II go Into any
town, settlement or territory, bclon.’ing to
the Cfffk nation of Indians, and fh.ill heie
commit any crime upon, or trcfp*fa avnr-4
the person or property of am* peaceable and
friendly Indian or Indians, which if commu
ted wirhin the jurifdidion e r any (fate, 6r
within tbe juriflittion of either of the >a ; d
d'ftride, aeainft a citizen or white inhabitant
thereof, would be pcoilhable bv the laws of
such Pate or diflriff, such offender or offen
rfers (lull be fubjed to the fame punirtruenr,
snd (lull be proceeded sgsinfi in the ,f*m
manner, as if the offence bad been comt F ' ;,> '*d
wiebin the jurifdid'.on of the dais or disi r ?>|
to which he or they ru*V belong, sgamfl a
citizen or white inhabit*'*! thereof. 0t
An. io. In cefe* ot violence o*l lul s***
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