By the United States in Congress Assembled. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS the United States in Congress assembled, by their Commissioners duly appointed and authorized, did on the twenty-eighth Day of November, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-five, at Hopewell, on the Keowee, conclude Articles of a Treaty with all the Cherokees; and among other things stipulated and agreed, by Article fourth, "That the Boundary allotted to the Cherokees for their hunting Grounds, between the said Indians and the Citizens of the United States, within the limits of the United States of America, is and shall be the following, viz." Beginning at the mouth of Duck River on the Tennessee; thence running Northerly along the said waters running into Cumberland from those running into the Tenehe; thence Eastwardly along the said ridge to a north-east line to be run, which shall strike the South-Holston thirty-eight miles above Nashville; thence along the said line to the river; thence up the said river to the fork where the Kentucky road cuts the river; thence to Campbell's line near to Cumberland Gap; thence in the mouth of Cloud's Creek on Holstein; thence to the Chimney-Top Mountain; thence to Cany Creek, near the mouth of Big Lime Stone on Nolichuckey; thence a Southerly course six miles to a mountain; thence South to the North-Carolina line; thence to the South-Carolina Indian Boundary; and about the forth South-West over the top of the Oconee Mountain, till it shall strike Tugelo river; thence a direct line to the top of the Currahoe Mountain; thence to the head of the South fork of the Oconee river." And by Article fifth, that "If any Citizen of the United States, or other person not being an Indian, should attempt to settle on any of the lands within and/or South and of the said Boundary, which were allotted to the Indians for their Hunting Grounds, or having settled prior to the conclusion of the said Treaty, and not removing from the same within six months after the ratification of the said Treaty, such person should forfeit the protection of the United States, and that the Indians might punish him as law as they please:" provided, that the said fifth Article should not be construed to exclude settled between the fork of French Broad and Holstein rivers, whose particular situation should be transmitted to the United States in Congress assembled for their decision thereon, which the Indians agreed to abide by." And whereas it has been represented to Congress, that several Persons who have settled on the Frontier of North-Carolina, in the vicinity of Chota, have, in open violation of the said Treaty, made intrusions upon the said Indian Hunting Grounds, and committed many unprovoked outrages upon the said Cherokees, who by the said Treaty have put themselves under the protection of the United States, which proceedings are highly injurious and disrespectful to the authority of the Union, and being the firm determination of Congress to protect the said Cherokees in their rights, according to the true intent and meaning of the said Treaty: THE UNITED STATES IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED, have therefore thought fit to issue, and they DO hereby issue this their Proclamation, to restrain all Persons from such unconstitutional intrusions, to forbid all proceeding against the said Cherokees, and enjoining all those who have settled upon the said Hunting Grounds of the said Cherokees, to depart with their Families and Effects within such a time, as they shall and may think proper, and before the determination to be expressed in this Resolution as their peril: Provided, that this Proclamation shall not be construed as requiring the removal of the People settled between the fork of French Broad and Holstein rivers, referred to in the said Treaty: Provided also, that nothing contained in this Proclamation shall be considered as affecting the Territorial Claims of the State of North-Carolina. DONE in Congress, this First Day of September, in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-eight, and of our Sovereignty and Independence the Thirteenth. CYRUS GRIFFIN, President. CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary.