By the United States in Congrefs Affembled, A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS the United States in Congrefs affembled, by their Commiffioners duly appointed and authorifed, did on the Twenty-eighth Day of November, One Thoufand Seven Hundred and Eighty-five, at Hopewell, on the Keowee, conclude Articles of a Treaty with all the Cherokees, and among other things ftipulated and engaged by Article fourth, "That the Boundary allotted to the Cherokees for their Hunting Grounds, between the faid Indians and the Citizens of the United States, within the limits of the United States of America, is and fhall be the following, viz: 'Beginning at the mouth of Duck river on the Tenefee; thence running north-eaft to the ridge dividing the waters running into Cumberland from thofe running into the Tenefee; thence eaftwardly along the faid ridge to a north-eaft line to be run, which fhall ftrike the river Cumberland, forty miles above Nafhville; thence along the faid line to the river; thence up the faid river to the ford where the Kentucky road croffes the river; thence to Campbell's line near to Cumberland Gap; thence to the mouth of Claud's Creek on Holftein; thence to the Chimney-Top Mountain; thence to Cany Creek, near the mouth of Big Lime Stone on Nolichucky; thence a foutherly courfe fix miles to a mountain; thence fouth to the North-Carolina line; thence along the South-Carolina Indian Boundary, and along the fame fouthward over the top of the the Oconee Mountain, till it fhall ftrike Tugalos river; thence a direct line to the top of the Currohoe Mountain; thence to the head of the fouth fork of the Oconee river." And by Article fifth, that "if any Citizen of the United States, or other perfon not being an Indian, fhould attempt to fettle on any of the lands weftward or fouthward of the faid Boundary, which were allotted to the Indians for their Hunting Grounds, or having fettled previoufly to concluding the faid Treaty, and not removing from the fame within fix months after the ratification of the faid Treaty, fuch perfon fhould forfeit the protection of the United States, and that the Indians might punifh him or not as they pleafe; provided, that the faid fifth Article fhould not extend to the People fettled between the fork of French Broad and Holftein rivers, whofe fituation fhould be tranfmitted to the United States in Congrefs affembled for their decifion thereon, which the Indians agreed to abide by." AND WHEREAS it has been reprefented to Congrefs, that feveral diforderily Perfons fettled on the Frontiers of North-Carolina, in the vicinity of Chota, have, in open violation of the faid Treaty, made intruſions upon the faid Indian Hunting Grounds, and committed many unprovoked outrages upon the faid Cherokees, who by the faid Treaty have put themfelves under the protection of the United States, which proceedings are highly injurious and difrefpectful to the authority of the Union, and it being the firm determination of Congrefs to protect the faid Cherokees in their rights, according to the true intent and meaning of the faid Treaty; THE UNITED STATES IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED, have therefore thought fit to iffue, and they DO hereby iffue this their PROCLAMATION, ftrictly forbidding all fuch unwarrantable intruſions, and hoftile proceedings againft the faid Cherokees; and enjoining all thofe who have fettled upon the faid Hunting Grounds of the faid Cherokees, to depart with their Families and Effects without lofs of time, as they fhall anfwer their difobedience to the injunctions and prohibitions expreffed in this Refolution at their peril: Provided, that this Proclamation fhall not be conftued as requiring the removal of the People fettled between the fork of French Broad and Holftein rivers, referred to in the faid Treaty: Provided alfo, that nothing contained in this Proclamation fhall be confidered as affecting the Territorial Claims of the State of North-Carolina. *DONE in Congrefs, this Firft Day of September, in the Year of our Lord One Thoufand Seven Hundred and Eighty-eight, and of our Sovereignty and Independence the Thirteenth.* CYRUS GRIFFIN, Prefident. CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary.