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D E NT QsNt Printed, by H ODG E WILLS, Printers to the State, by'whom Subfcrip . tions for this paper aretaken in at 25s. peV annum, and advertifements of iio more length than breadth inferted for 8s.. the firft week and 4s. for every time afterwards; larger ones in proportion. . . - its ion the. :af. Numb, 143.'' .. . - ' ...... t ...'. 0 Vol. III. M ON; D. AY, September 29, 1788. ; m'mm "" " "" " 1 1 J--1 la" I'"1, " J MH Mil H I HI I y the UNITED STATES in CONGRESS AbbtM15Ltl. : A PRQCLAM ATIpN. HERE AS the United States in 'Con, grefs affembled, by their Commiflion- rs dtilv annointed and authoriled. did on the twenty-eighth day of November, bnethoufand; feveii hun dred and eighty-five, at Hopewell on the iCeowee, conclude articles of a treaty with all the Cherokees, and among other things ftipulated vand engaged by article fourth, HThat the boundary allotted to the Cherokees fofxtheir hunting; grounds, between the laid Indiahs.and the citizens of the United States, within thVJimits of the United States of Ame rica, is andfhallbe the following, viz. ' Be ginning at thex mouth of Duck - river on the Teneffee,; thence running . north-eaft to: the ridge dividing the waters running into G am ber- land from thofe running into the Tcr.effee thenceeaftwaidly along thefaidridge to anorth eaft line to be run, which Iball iliike the river Cumberland, forty miles above Naihville ; thence along the faid line to the river j thence up the faid river to the ford wher.ethe Kentucky road creffes the. river j thence to CampbelTs line near to Cumberland Gap j thence, to the mouth of Claud's Creek on Holfteinj thence to the. Chimney-Top Mountain ; , thence to Camp Creek, near the jrrouth of Big Lime Stone -on Jolichuekey ; thence a , foutherly courfe fix miles to a mountain j thence fouth to the North-Carolina line; thence to the South-Carolina along the fame fouth -weft over the top of the Oconee Mountain, till it mall ftrike Tugato-river j thence a direct line to the top of "the Currohee "Mountain ; thence to the head of the fouth fork ojf the Qconee riverA-And byr arqTcte" , Jiftlv that " If any. citizen of the United States, Mor' other perfoh not being an Indian, flipuld attempt to fettle on . any of the lands weftward or fouthward of the faid boundary, which were allotted to . the Indians for their hunting grounds, or -having fettled previcu fly to concluding the faid treaty, and fiot removing from the fame within fix nionths after the rati . cation "of the faid treaty, luch perfon fliould -forfeit the protection of the United States, mid that the Indians might punim him or not as -they pleafc ; provnled , that the fa j d fi ftharticle fliould not extend to the people fettled between the fork of JFrench Broad - and ! lol ftein1 rlverT," whole particular fituation .ihould- be- tranfmit- teaathj rFotTtfieTr decifion- thereon, vhich theIiHlm agreed to abiie byV And whereas it has been repfdiitlejiio ordellypiifonsXettledon-thejrontte ofNofth." Carolina, in the vicinity -of Chota, have, in open violation of the faid treaty, made intrvili Qjis upqn the faid Indian hunting grpunds,:r.nd committed many unprovoked outrages upon the laid Cherokees, who bytji-iaid'treaty.hriye'.. put themfelves under the protection" of the U nited States, which proceedings are highly in jurious and difi efpedful to the authority of the; union, and it being ...the firm deter minatioii of Congrefs , to protect the laid Cherokees . in their rights, according to the true intent and tneanin ' oflthe; i aid i i eatylrHEfUNITEDr STATES IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED. JwxsitUmsftogli they DO hereby ifl'ue this their. PROCLAMATI ON, ftrictly forbidding all fuch iinwarranta- bU-iitrufions, arid holtile prbceedings againft me laici neroK.ees ; anq enjoining an tijole wno Thaye fettled uponjlieaid. hunting grounds of thefardtCherokeM, to depart with their fami lies and effects without lofsof time, astheyfhall anfwer theh difobedreiice to the injunctions and ptohihitions expreffed in this refolutiqn atf ; their peril vPjovidedf-that this procamttoh? fliall not be conftrued as requiring the removal of the people f ettled between the fork of French :Broad and Holftein rivers,, referred to in the .1 faid treaty: Provided alio, that nothing con tained in this proclamation fhali be considered as affecting the. territorial claims of the ftate of North -Carolina. V- :' ' " " v; ' DOftE in. Ccngrefsy this firji Jay of Septem ber, in the year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and eighty-eight, and .of ow fovereignty and independence the thirteenth. . : ' - CYRUS GRIFFIN, frefxdent. , Charles Thomson, Sce'ry By the UNITED STATES in CONGRESS JVSSEM B LZIlr-$ E ? T-E-M B E ft-t J 7' T) ESOLVED, That tile Secretary at War be, and he is hereby directed, to have a fufficieht number of the troops in the fervice of, the UnitedStates in readinefsto march'from the Ohio, to the protection of the Cherokees, when ever Congrels fliall direct the fame j and that he take meafures for obtaining information of the beft routes for troops to march from the O-' liio to Chcta a'nd for difperfing among all the white inhabitants fettled upon or in the vicini- v ty of the hunting grounds fecuied to the Che rokees by the treaty concluded " between them and the: United States, November 28, 1735, die proclamation of Congrefs of this date. - H cfclved, That copies of the faid" pi oc lama lion, and of thefe refolutions, be tranfmitted to the Executives of Virginia arid North-Carolina, and that the faid ftates be, and they are hereby requeued, to jufe their influence that the . jiidrQclanution m3yhraveitsintenred effect to reltore peace and harmony between the citi zens of the United States and the Cherokees, and to prevent, any.further -invafions of their iefpective rights and pofleflibns ; and in cafe Congrefs fliall find it neceifary to order troops to the Cherokee towns to enforce a due obfer vance of the faid treaty, that the laid ftates be, and they are hereby requcfled to co-operate with the faid troops1 for enforcing; fuch obfeiv vance of that treaty. . ';'.'' Refolvedy That the. papers which have been t r a n 1 m i 1 1 ed : . t o7 Co n g re fs , concerning certain hoflilities all edged to have been committed by Jo.ha,Sevier and others on the Cherokee Indians a t jCliotajJ berefexred i to thhexlecwtive-of INortK' Garpiinar aridIfafn faid Executive be aid Jtheyhej;ej caufe enquiry to be made into the faid hoftili- tiSyrani to take menlures for hayinfijier-. petratprs Jiiereiirppf ebemedntr ptrmfhed . $ - CHARLES THOMSON, Sec'ry. ' By the UNI TED STATES in CONGRESS ASSEMBLED, . . W 1- DM E SO' A Y , Allgujl ' 20, 1 7 S 8 , fTpHE Committee, confiliing of Mr.: Clarkjr :1 Mr. )ane, Mr. Willi.imfon,- Mr. Bing ham, and Mr. Baldwin,- to whom was refer red ; the report, of the Board of Teafury re fpe ing z-req ui fi tiori for the year 1 7 $ $ , haV i ng repprted, '" That in order to afcertain Whether ; any or What fums Jri-fpecic it may be necelTary to'require of thVfla ;h4akenjSneriiivi of every kind pfr the United -States forYeveral years paft, an.d including the; eftirnite forthe. .pre&nt-year, and ha diturei with tle provifip by 'Congrefs for difch'arging fpecie demancls upon - the " union during the fame pen-' od ; Thaf on afcertaining the amount of the faid expenditures from January i , .178 3, to Ja uuary. 1, ija, tbt.amount tner inei5eft which accrued on the foreign debt previous to the year, 1784, and the I amount of the fums paid for fervices performed in the years 1782, and .1783, out of the requifiticn for 1784, they find thatlhofe expenditures, and the faid inter eft and fervices of 1782 and 17S3, and eftitnate, amount to the -funis following, viz. . ; Dollars. Dollars. Intereft accrued on the foreign debt" prior lpH 1784, . Foreign intereft ' which became due 1784,1 7 5j .. 176 and 1787 Foreign" intereft which becomes 4ue 468 yjB 1 " Whole amount of foreign intereft to i72S incufive, 2,442,16'!. 55 Parts of the principal of the foreign debt due. . Of the French , j : : . debt in 1787, 462,962.. 82 Ditto, 1784, . . 462,962. 82 --:"--:7-rr.v Inftalments of the 'foreign debt, 925,925 . 72 Intereft and , parts of the princi pal pf the debt which become . due from the contracting therei of, to 1788,' inclufive, ; 3,368,027. 49 Amount of payments for the1, . faid- fervices, performed in ; ; . 1782 and 1783, i 230,680. 33 Actual expenditures in.the years ' 1784,1785, 1787 'and 1787, TuTthe civil, Indian, military, 1 ; contingent, invalid and geo- grapher's department, Eftimate for the year 1788, Total amount, ' i, 111,781. 326,427 4036,917. Having afcertained the expendi tures aforefaidi the Commit tee have found it necelTary to . 'enquire what parts of them ' . . .JiateJeen-5ct;ualfyaid,-an they find that thefeainount to 3,168,41. 45 And that the parts of the ex penditures aforefaid, remain- ing unpajdtaie WfollowsT - i,52J,h6v 33- ign intereft to -the year- 1788, includ ve, i he principal a- ... .. J foTOalaW foreign debt be- I -coming due in . . . . 1787 and 1 7SS, '925,925. .74 Arrearages'of ex , idituresinthe -. v'-isi-;- years 1 784;! 7: " 1786 and" 1787,; ':f ':'-: in t he depart- ', : 4 . -.le;ntaforefadal.I;poV' Parrs of the efti- ' ." :--yy:y. " '. inateof thepre . v r - lent y r unpaid " 240,427 v-.v'x& TjThe Committee havrngfcertained 4he Pa tent of public expenditures, and the amount a of the imfatis fled demands which have hereto- ' fore arilen, .and'wlrich arife the pfefent year, agamft the union as a amine tne extent or , the provilions already made - be applied to difcharge the, unfatisfled demands-vM?.:;f aiujetaivi, anu mcy iu:u inatin&jpecie requi' utionsinuae nncc J anuary i, Jjr 1 ' '. 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