TREATY WITH THE CHEROKEE, 1868.
Apr. 27, 1868. | 16 Stats., 727.| Ratified June 6, 1868. | Proclaimed June 10, 1868.
Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties. Vol. II (Treaties). Compiled and
edited by Charles J. Kappler. Washington : Government Printing Office,
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Contract by the Secretary
of the Interior with the American Emigrant Company for the sale of Cherokee
neutral lands.
Contract with James F. Joy for sale of same
lands.
Contract with American Emigrant Company
to be assigned to Joy.
Contracts with Joy to be canceled.
Modifications of contract with American
Emigrant Company assigned to Joy.
Supplemental article to a treaty concluded at Washington City, July 19th, A. D. 1866; ratified with amendments, July 27th, A. D. 1866; amendments accepted, July 31st, A. D. 1866; and the whole proclaimed, August 11th, A. D. 1866, between the United States of America and the Cherokee Nation of Indians.
Whereas under the provisions of the seventeenth article of a treaty and
amendments thereto made between the United States and the Cherokee Nation
of Indians, and proclaimed August 11th, A. D.
1866, a contract was made and entered
into by James Harlan, Secretary of the Interior, on behalf of the United
States, of the one part, and by the American Emigrant Company, a corporation
chartered and existing under the laws of the State of Connecticut, of the
other part, dated August 30th, A. D. 1866, for the sale of the so-called
“Cherokee neutral lands,” in the State of Kansas, containing eight
hundred thousand acres, more or less, with the limitations and restrictions
set forth in the said seventeenth article of said treaty as amended, on the
terms and conditions therein mentioned, which contract is now on file in
the Department of the Interior; and
Whereas Orville H. Browning, Secretary of the Interior, regarding said sale
as illegal and not in conformity with said treaty and amendments thereto,
did, on the ninth day of October, A. D. 1867, for and in behalf of the United
States, enter into a contract with James
F. Joy, of the city of Detroit, Michigan, for the sale of the aforesaid lands
on the terms and conditions in said contract set forth, and which is on file
in the Department of the Interior; and
Whereas, for the purpose of enabling the Secretary of the Interior, as trustee
for the Cherokee Nation of Indians, to collect the proceeds of sales of said
lands and invest the same for the benefit of said Indians, and for the purpose
of preventing litigation and of harmonizing the conflicting interests of
the said American Emigrant Company and of the said James F. Joy, it is the
desire of all the parties in interest
that the said American Emigrant Company shall assign their said contract
and all their right, title, claim, and interest in and to the said
“Cherokee neutral lands” to the said James F. Joy, and that the
said Joy shall assume and conform to all the obligations of said company
under their said contract, as hereinafter modified:
It is, therefore, agreed, by and between Nathaniel G. Taylor, commissioner
on the part of the United States of America, and Lewis Downing, H. D. Reese,
Wm. P. Adair, Elias C. Boudinot, J. A. Scales, Archie Scraper, J. Porum Davis,
and Samuel Smith, commissioners on the part of the Cherokee Nation of Indians,
that an assignment of the contract made
and entered into on the 30th day of August, A. D. 1866, by and between James
Harlan, Secretary of the Interior, for
and in behalf of the United States of America, of the one part, and the American
Emigrant Company, a corporation chartered and existing under the laws of
the State of Connecticut, of the other part, and now on file in the Department
of the Interior, to James F. Joy, of the city of Detroit, Michigan, shall
be made; and that said contract, as hereinafter modified, be and the same
is hereby, with the consent of all parties, re-affirmed and declared valid;
and that the contract entered into by and between Orville H. Browning, for
and in behalf of the United States, of the one part, and James F. Joy, of
the city of Detroit, Michigan, of the other part, on the 9th day of October,
A. D. 1867, and now on file in the Department of the Interior, shall be
relinquished and cancelled by the said
James F. Joy, or his duly authorized agent or attorney; and the said first
contract as hereinafter modified, and the assignment of the first contract,
and the relinquishment of the second contract, are hereby ratified and confirmed,
whenever said assignment of the first contract and the relinquishment of
the second shall be entered of record in the Department of the Interior,
and when the said James F. Joy shall have accepted said assignment and shall
have entered into a contract with the Secretary of the Interior to assume
and perform all obligations of the said American Emigrant Company under said
first-named contract, as hereinafter modified.
The modifications hereinbefore mentioned
of said contract are hereby declared to be:—
1. That within ten days from the ratification of this supplemental article the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars shall be paid to the Secretary of the Interior as trustee for the Cherokee Nation of Indians.
2. That the other deferred payments specified in said contract shall be paid when they respectively fall due, with interest only from the date of the ratification hereof.
It is further agreed and distinctly understood that, under the conveyance
of the “Cherokee neutral lands” to the said American Emigrant Company,
“with all beneficial interests therein,” as set forth in said contract,
the said company and their assignees shall take only the residue of said
lands after securing to “actual settlers” the lands to which they
are entitled under the provisions of the seventeenth article and amendments
thereto of the said Cherokee treaty of August 11th, 1866; and that the proceeds
of the sales of said lands, so occupied at the date of said treaty by
“actual settlers,” shall enure to the sole benefit of, and be retained
by, the Secretary of the Interior as trustee for the said Cherokee Nation
of Indians.
In testimony whereof, the said commissioners on the part of the United States,
and on the part of the Cherokee nation of Indians, have hereunto set their
hands and seals, at the city of Washington, this 27th day of April, A. D.
1868.
N. G. Taylor,
Commissioner in behalf of the United States.
Delegates of the Cherokee Nation:
Lewis Downing,
Chief of Cherokees.
H. D. Reese,
Chairman of Delegation.
Samuel Smith,
Wm. P. Adair,
J. P. Davis,
Elias C. Boudinot,
J. A. Scales,
Arch. Scraper,
Cherokee Delegates.
In presence of—
H. M. Watterson.
Charles E. Mix.
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