also a just
compensation fur the property lie may abandon, to he assessed by persons to he
app anted by the President .if the United states. The cost of the emigration of all
such shall also he borne by the United states, ami good and suitable ways opened
ami procured for their comfort, accomi latioh, and support by the way. and pro-
visions fur twelve months after their arrival at the agency; and to each person, or
head of a family, if he take along with him four persons, shall ho paid immediately
on his arriving at the agency and reporting himself and his family or followers as
emigrants or permanent settlers, in addition to the above, provided he and they shall
have , migrated from within the chartered limits of the st.it, of Georgia, the sumof fifty
dollars, and this sum in proportion to any greater or less number that may accompany
him from within the aforesaid chartered limits of the State of Georgia.
A Senate amendment, defining the limits of the western outlet, was
afterward found to he impracticable in its restrictions and was can-
celed by the treaty made at Fort Gibson in is:;:;. 1
Tin" Washington treaty was signed by several delegates, including
Sequoya, four of them signing in Cherokee characters. As the laws
iTreatj of Washington, May 6, 1828, Indian Treaties, pp 123-428,1837; treaty of Fort Gibson, 1-:;:;,
ibid., pp.56] 65 see also for synopsis, Eoyce, Cherokee Nation, Fifth Ann. Rep. Bureau of Ethnology,
pp 229,230,1888.
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