[Missing Page/s — Some or all of the pages of this file are wholly or in part missing, and we have not been able to locate a more complete copy of the document.] [Resolve of Congress 26 October 1787 appointing Commissioners for holding Treaties with the Southern Indians.] The United States in Congress Assembled. October 26^th 1787 On the report of a Committee to whom was referred a Motion of Mr. Lee with directions to report Instructions for holding Treaties with the Northern & Southern Indians. Resolved that the Executive or Legislature if they be in Session, in the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, & Georgia, be and they are hereby Authorised to and appoint each of them one Commissioner, who shall in conjunction with the superintendent of Indian affairs for the Southern department, or in his absence, by themselves negotiate a Treaty for the Establishing Peace between the United States and the Tribes of Indians in the Southern department, and any two of the Commissioners to be appointed as aforesaid, in conjunction with the Superintendent, or in case of the absence of the Superintendent any two of the said Commissioners agreeing their decision shall be final and conclusive; and that the said Commissioner shall each be allowed four Dollars a day for the time they shall be employed in that business in full for their Services, and Expences — exclusive of their Expences at the places or places where the Treaties shall be held — That the sum of one thousand Dollars being a part of the Sum appropriated by the Resolution of the [undecipherable] of the present Month for holding Indian Treaties, in addition to the goods in the hands of the former Commissioners — or holding a treaty with the southern Indians, is applied to hold — any the said Treaty at such time and at such places as shall be appointed by the superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Southern department in Conjunction with the Executive of the State of North Carolina for the Treaty with the Cherokees and with the Executive of Georgia for that with the Creek Nation, or in case of the absence of the Superintendent, then the time and place to be appointed by the Executive of both States in manner aforesaid — The aforesaid sum to be in full for all charges of whatever nature they may be relative to the said Treaty, including the pay of the Commissioners, and Militia, and that the States of North Carolina, South Carolina & Georgia, be called on to furnish the aforesaid sum in equal proportions to be credited on requisitions of Congress — That the Commissioners aforesaid be and they are hereby [strikethrough: are] Authorized to apply to the States of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, for any number of Men not Exceeding one hundred of their Militia — for the purpose of guarding and protecting the Stores and goods necessary for carrying on the said Treaty — A true copy (Signed) Cha: Thomson Secretary [undecipherable: signature] Secretary