Indian Papers of Texas and the Southwest, Vol. I

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TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1825-1843

shall be created and at least one agent shall reside, specially. within the Cherokee Villages, whose duty it shall oe to see, that no injustice is done to them, or other members of the com- munity of Indians. Article Tenth, The Parties, to this Treaty agree that so soon as Jack Steele, and Samuel Benge, shall abandon their improvements. 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 having untill the month of November next succeeding from the date of this treaty, allowed them to remove within the limits be- fore described.-And that all the Lands and impro•::,rnents now occupiC'd by any of the before named Bands or Tribc5. not Tying- within the limits before described shall belong to the Goveni- ment of 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 Steele 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 -0i 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 Cousultation of the Peo- ple of all Texas, dated the Thirteenth day of November. Eighteen hundred and thirty five, within the before recited limits, are declared void-as well as, all orders and surveys made in relation to the same.- Done a!· Colonel Bowles Village on the Twenty third day 0f Feb- ruary, Eighteen hundred and thirty six, and the first Year of the Provisional Government of Texas.- - -

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