lay off their lands and own
them individually, a surveyor shall be sent to make the surveys at the
cost of the United States." This article was annulled in 1833 by
request of the Cherokee.
Article 9 provides. for the Fort Gibson military reservation within
the new tract, while article 7 hinds the Cherokee to surrender and
remove from all their lands in Arkansas within fourteeiijnonths.
Article 8 shows that all this was intended to he only preliminary to
the removal of the whole Cherokee Nation from the east of the Missis-
sippi, a consummation toward which the Jackson administration and
the state of Georgia immediately began t<> bend every effort. It is as
follows:
Article S. The Cherokee nation, west of tin- Mississippi, having bythis agreement
freed themselves from the harassing and ruinous effects consequent upon a location
amidst a whitepopulation, ami secured to themselves and their posterity, under the
solemn sanction of the guarantee of the United States as contained in this agreement,
a large extent of unembarrassed country; and that their brothers yet remaining in
the states may he induced to join them and enjoy the repose and blessings of such a
state in the future, it i.- further agreed mi the part of the United States that to each
h, ul of a ( herokee fannh now reoi ling within the chartered limits cf 1 eorgi i, or
of either of the states oast of the Mississippi, who may desire to remove west, shall
he given, mi enrolling himself for emigration, a g 1 rifle, a blanket, a kettle, and
five pounds of tobacco; (and to each member of his family one blanket),