WRITINGS OF 5AM HOUSTON, 1836
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not before been suggested to them. But a general council shoulJ be held in the course of the present month, when their determina- tion will be made known. The expenses attendant upon the treaty are comparatively light. A statement of which will be furnished to your Excellency. All of which is most respectfully submitted.
Sam Houston John Forbes.
1 Brown, Histor-y of Texas, I, 551-553.
2 Since the text of this treaty has seldom, if ever, been printed it is given here in fu11: "This Treaty made and established between Sam Houston and John Forbes, Commissioners on the part of the Provisional Government of Texas, of the one part, and the Cherokees, and their associate ·Bands now residing in Texas, of the other part, to wit, Shawnees, Delawares, Kick- P.poos, Quapaws, Chocktaws, Boluxies, Iowanies, Alabamas, Cochetties, Caddos of the Naches, Tahoocattakes, and Unataquous. "By the Head Chiefs, Head men, and Warriors, of the Cherokees as Elder Brother and Representative of a11 the other Bands, agreeably to their last General Council. This Treaty is made conformably to a decla- :.ation made by the last General Consultation, at San Felipe, and dated 13th November, A. D. 1835. "Article First: The Parties declare, that there sha11 be a firm and last- ing peace forever, and that a friendly intercourse sha11 be preserved, by the people belonging to both parties. "Article Second: It is agreed and declared that the before named Tribes, or Bands shall form one community, and that they shall have and possess the lands within the fo11owing bounds. To wit,-laying west of the San Antonio road, and beginning on the West, at the point where the said road crosses the River Angelina, and running up said river, untill it reaches the mouth of the first large creek (below the great Shawnee village) emptying into the said River from the north east, thence running with. said creek, to its main source, and from thence a due north line to the Sabine River, and with said river west--then starting where the San Antonio road crosses the Angelina river, and with the said road to the point where it crosses the Naches river and thence running up the east side of said river, in a northwest direction. "Article Third: All lands granted or settled in good faith previous to the settlement of the Cherokees, within the before described bounds, are not conveyed by this treaty, but excepted from its operation. All persons who have once been removed and returned shall be considered as intruders, and their settlements not to be respected. "Article Fourth: It is agreed by the Parties aforesaid that, the several Bands or Tribes named in this Treaty, shall nil remove within the limits, or bounds as before described.
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