Laws of the Government of Texas.-All property stolen from the citizens of Texas, or from the Indians shall be restored to the party from whom it was stolen, and the offender or offenders shall be punished by the party to whom he or they may belong. Article Eighth, . The Government of Texas shall have power to regulate Tr~de, and intercourse, but no Tax shall be laid on the Trade of
the Indians.- Article Ninth,
The Parties to Lhis Treaty agree that one or more agencies, shall be created and at least one agent shall reside, specially, within the Cherokee Villages, whose duty it shall be to see, that no in- justice is done to them, or other members of the community of Indians. Article Tenth, The Parties, to this Treaty agree that so soon as Jack Steele, and Samuel Benge, shall abandon their improvcmcnts, without the limits of the before recited tract of country, and remove within the same, that they shall be valued and paid for by the Government of Texas, the said Jack Steele and Samuel Benge ha·dng untill the month of November next succeeding from the date of this treaty, allowed them to remove within the limits before described.-And that all the Lands and improvements now occupied by any of the before named Bands or Tribes, not lying within the limits before described shall belong to the Government and Texas and subject to its disposal. Article Eleventh, The parties to this Treaty agree and stipulate that all the Bands or Tribes, as before recited (except St'eele and Benge) Shall remove within the before described limits, within Eight months from the date of this Treaty. Article Twelfth, The parties to this Treaty, agree that nothing herein con- tained shall effect the relations of the Saline, on the Neches nor the Settlers in the neighbourhood thereof untill a General Council of the Several Bands, shall take place and the pleasure of the Convention of Texas be known. Article Thirteenth, It is also declared, that all Titles issued to Lands, not agree- ably to the declaration of the General Consultation of the People
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