[144] Art 1^st. There shall be perpetual peace and friendship between all the Citizens of the United States of America, and all the individuals, towns and tribes of the upper, middle and lower Creeks and Seminoles, composing the Creek Nation of Indians. Art 2^d. The said [undecipherable] Kings Chiefs and Warriors, for themselves, and all parts of the Creek Nation, within the limits of the United States, do acknowledge themselves and the said Part of the Creek Nation, to be under the Protection of the United States of America, and for ever disowning, wherever and they also stipulate that the said Creek nation will not hold any treaty with an individual state, or with individuals of any state. Art 3. The Creek Nation, shall deliver as soon as practicable, to the Commanding officer of the troops of the United States stationed at the Rock Landing, on the [undecipherable] prisoners — all Citizens of the United States [undecipherable] to and Negroes, who are now Prisoners in any part of the said Nations, and if any such Prisoners or Negroes should not be so delivered, on or before the first day of January ensuing, the Governor of Georgia may impose three Regiments to repair to the said Nations in order to obtain and receive such prisoners and Negroes. Art 4^th. The boundary between the Citizens of the United States and Creek Nations, is and shall be, from where the old line strikes, the river [undecipherable]. Thence up the said river to a place on the most Northern branch of the same, commonly called the [undecipherable], whence a North East line to be drawn from the top of the Currahee Mountains, shall intersect the same along the said line into the [undecipherable] mountains to [undecipherable]. Thence to the top of Currahee Mountains, Thence to the head or Source of the main South branch of the [undecipherable] river, called [undecipherable]. Thence down the middle of the said river on its South branch and thence to its Confluence [undecipherable] the Oconee [undecipherable] [Bo. No. 923] which [undecipherable] to the Old line on the said river, and thence along the said the river to River St. Marys. And in order to precisely determine relatively to the head, or source of this South branch of the River Oconee at the place where intersected by the line drawn from the Currahee — ment, the same shall be determined by a commissioner on the part of the United States, who shall be appointed [undecipherable] two [undecipherable] Citizens of Georgia; who may be appointed by the Governor of the said State; and the Old Creek Chief to be appointed by said Nation, and the said Surveyors or deputies and Chiefs, shall assemble for this purpose on the first day of October, one thousand seven hundred and Ninety One, at the Rock Landing, on the said River Oconee and thence proceed to Ascertain the said head, or source of the main South branch of the said River, at the place nearest it shall be intersected by the Line aforesaid, to be drawn from the Currahee Mountains, and in order the said Boundaries, shall be rendered distinct, and well known, it shall be marked by a line of felled trees, at least Twenty feet wide, and the trees blazed on each side from the said Currahee Mountains to the head, or source of the main South branch of the Oconee river, and thence down by the Morgan of the said main South Branch and [undecipherable] County for the distance of Twenty Miles, or as much of this as may be necessary to Mark distinctly the said Boundary, and in order to distinguish quest for view attendants of the Creek Nation or any part thereof, of any of the land lying to the Westward and Eastward of the Boundary line described, it is hereby agreed in addition to the Considerations, heretofore made, for the said land, that the United State will [undecipherable] for certain Valuable Consideration in the state of Georgia, to be deliver to the said Creek Nations, and the said United States will after the sum of one thousand and four hundred dollars, to be paid Annually to the said Creek Nation. And the undersigned Kings Chiefs and Warriors do hereby for themselves and the whole Nation hereby bind themselves to defend [undecipherable] the Considerations aforesaid — wards, of the East and West and South and East of all the land Northward and Eastward of the boundary herein described. Turn over Art 5^th. [undecipherable] to the Creek Nation all their [undecipherable] the Citizens of the United States to the west mentioned [undecipherable] and west of the boundary described herein be presented. Art 6. If any Citizen of the United States, or other Person not being Indian, shall attempt to settle on any of the reserved lands of the Creek Nation for the Protection of the United States, and the Creeks may [undecipherable] have, or enter on the [undecipherable]. Art 7. No Citizen or Inhabitant of the United States, shall be allowed to destroy the game on the Creek lands, No shall any [undecipherable] Citizen or Inhabitant going to the Creek country [undecipherable] Support, first obtain a license from the Superintendent of the United States, or the Officer of the troops of the United States commanding the Military [undecipherable] on the frontiers — or any other Person on the Territories of the United States, from time to time to Receive [undecipherable] from the same. Art 8^th. If any free Indian or Indians, or Persons residing among them, or who shall take refuge within their Nation, shall commit a robbery or murder, or other [undecipherable] against any of the Citizens or Inhabitants of the United States, or against said Nation or towns, or tribe, to which such offending Indian or Nation or Tribe, to which shall be bound to deliver them up to be punished according to the laws of the United States. Art 9^th. If any Citizen or Inhabitant of the United States, or any of the Territorial Districts of the United States, shall go into any Town, settlement or Territory belonging to the Creek [undecipherable] and there commit, or treat any Crimes — ation of Indians, and shall there [undecipherable] of any Crimes — and upon, or the peace against the Person or Property — being Penalties or felony therein — so Indians, who being connected within the Jurisdiction of any State, or from the Jurisdiction of either of the said Districts — against a Citizen or Inhabitant thereof, would be Punishable by the laws of such State or district such Offender shall be prosecuted against in the same Manner as if the crime had been committed within the Jurisdiction Able — of the territory or state where the offender belongs. — Subject or white Inhabitant [undecipherable] Art 10^th. In case of [undecipherable] of Hostage, of the [undecipherable] — Duals of the other party, Nations committed or on [undecipherable] shall be immediately settled by the other — state for Indians shall have been injustice, the laws of the Party of which the aggressor is, and shall be known to have been [undecipherable]. Art 11^th. The Creek Nation is Native to the [undecipherable] of the United States of Americans, which they may desire as [undecipherable] to be furnished to any Neighborhood, Tribes, or towns — Persons who attend a quantity of Places and [undecipherable] of the United States. Art 12. That the Creek Nation may be better capable of furnishing themselves, and to become more an [undecipherable] and cultivated of promoting [undecipherable] in the state of [undecipherable]. The United States will from time to time furnish freely the said Nations with useful [undecipherable] and said [undecipherable] trade is to [undecipherable] day, and this [undecipherable] Represents at the [undecipherable] Nations, and at the [undecipherable] Residents, and at the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Articles of Communication, [undecipherable] the United States, military used and sent and so many Persons as reside in the said Nations as they many [undecipherable] properly and not receiving from in House has, who shall do all [undecipherable] shall be authorized to hold its [undecipherable] those Person which they have been assigned them by the Senate for Instructions, for them, receive and their [undecipherable] in Office, but they shall have [undecipherable] do so employ any kind of [undecipherable]. Art 13. A [undecipherable] for the [undecipherable] shall hereafter carry the foregoing — and the ratification [undecipherable] shall carry the [undecipherable]. Art 14^th. This Treaty shall take effect and be Obligatory on the contracting — as soon as the same shall have been ratified by the President of the United States by and with the Advice and consent of the Senate of the United States. In behalf of the United States. Henry Knox. To [undecipherable] of them selves and the whole Creek Nation — The C. M. [undecipherable] and Kings, Chiefs, and Warriors of the trusted, to the [undecipherable] [undecipherable], [undecipherable] Hatcher, [undecipherable] Counsellor, of the Buchanan [undecipherable], [undecipherable] Madame Chief [undecipherable] Who may [undecipherable] concluded on the [undecipherable] day [undecipherable] 1790 —