WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1836
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"Article Fifth: It is agreed and declared by the Parties aforesaid that the Land lying and being within the aforesaid limits shall never be sold or alienated to any person or persons, power or Government of Texas, and the Commifsioners on the behal£ of the Government of Texas bind themselves, to prevent in future all persons from intruding within the said bounds. And it is agreed upon the part of the Cherokees, for themselves and their younge1· brothers, that no other tribes or Bands of Indians what- soever, shall settle within the limits aforesaid, but those already named in this Treaty, and now residing in Texas. "Article Sixth: It is declared that no individual person, member of the Tribes before named, shall have power to sell, or lease land to any per- son or persons, not a member, or members of this Community of Indians, nor shall any citizen of Texas be allowed to lease or buy Land from any Indian or Indians. "Article Seventh: That the Indians shall be governed by their own Regulations, and Laws, within their own territory, not contrary to the 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 regu- late Trade, and intercourse, but no Tax shall be laid on the Trade of the Indians. "Article Ninth: The Parties of this Treaty agree that one or more agencies, shall be created and at least one agent shall reside, especially, within the Cherokee villages, whose duty it shall be to see that no injus- tice 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 improvements, without the limits of the aforesaid 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 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 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 aforesaid limits within the aforesaid Eight months from the date of this Treaty. "Article Twelfth: The Parties to this Treaty agree that nothing herein contained shall effect the relations of the Saline, on the Naches nor the settlers in the neighborhood thereof until a General Council of the Severn! 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 tho Lands, not agreeably to the declaration of the General Consultation of tho People of all Texas, dated the Thirteenth day o[ November, 1835, within t.he before recited limits, are declared void- as well as all orders and surveys made in relation to the same.-
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