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Show REPORT OF TEE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 79 formity with the laws thereof, or in the employment of tho United States GOT-ernment, and all citizens of the United States who we not resident in the Chero-koe Nation under the provisions of tSeat,y or acts of Congress, shall be deemed and held to be intruders and nnanthoriaed persons within the intent and meaning of section 6 of the treaty of 1835, and section8 26 asnd 27 of the treaty of July 19,1866, and shall, together with their peraond effeats, be removed withoot delay from the limits of said nation by the United States, as trespassers, npon tile demilod of the principalchief of the Cherokee Nation. 1x1 suoh removals no honses, barns, out-bnildings, fences, orchards, growing crops, or other chattels real, being attached to the soil and belonging to the Cherokee Nation, the owner of the lsnd,shall be reurored, damaged, or destroyed, unless it shall become necessary in order to effect the removal of snch trespassers: Pvoridcd, alruaya, Thxtnot.hingin this sectiou shall be so ~ o n s t r ~ e8 8d t o affect in any m&nner the rights of an>-p eraonfiin the Cherokee Nation under the ninth article of the treaty af July 19, 1866. In ratifying the agreement (27 Stats., G41) Congress proposed the following amendment to the above-quoted part thereof, which was con-sented to by the Cherokee Nation by an act of t.he national council approved April 3,1893: Andprooided frrrtltei., That betbre any int.rnder or unauthorieedperuon occupying house*, lands, or improvements, which ooonpenoy oon~lnct~eebde fore the cloventh day of August, nnno Domini oight.eeo hundred and iyhty-six, s l~al lh e renloved therefrom, upon demand of the principal chief or otherwise, the value of his improvements, as the same shsll be appraised hy a board of three appraisers, to be appointed by the President of tho United States, one of the same npon the reoom-monclation of the principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, for that purpose, shall be paid to him by ths Cherokee Ration; and npw suoh p;l?ment such islproveu~ents shall become the o. rou. ert .v of the Cherokee Nation: I'vouidcd, That the m o ~ msto ~, : I~;IiI~.Hl :i!~llll~~.(Slv. )I ILVIIrlI.*nl l nor vxrcs~~illl r r l u r l s o t rt\lllllllllln.d :lud lill!. Illom. I I ; l , , d p r.,, ,'d.,<jl . , r r b t ~ ,'I 'llnt 1110 . ppt:.i5rl.a i t 8 11-1. r!tlit>!l~l;i bn \.>IIIo~fc such improvements may consider the ral~lnao f tho nse and occupat io~of~ the land. Tl ~per ovision in thetreaty of 1835 (7 Stats., 478) relating tointruders in the Cherokee Nation and referred to iu tlie agreement as " sectiou six of the treaty of 1835" (which, however, is "article six," of said treaty) is as follows: Perpetual pseoe and frienil8hip shall exist between tho citisena of the United States and the Cherokee Indians. The United Statea agree to protect the Chwokae Nation from domestrio ntrifn and foreign enemios and against intestine mars.between the several tribes. The Cherokees shall e ~ t d e a ~ otor preserve and maintain the peace of the eount.rj; and not make mar upon thoir neighbors; they shall also be protected against interruption and intlvsion from oit.inens of the United States who ma,y attempt to settle in the country without their oonsent; and all such persons s h ~ lble removed fiwm the ssmo b~ order of the President of the United States. But this is not intendod to prevent the residence among them of useful farmers, mechanics, a d t eachers for the instruction of Indians according to treaty stipula-tions. Articles 26 and 27 of the trea,ty of 1866 (14 Stats., 806) referred to in the agreernhlt as "sections twenty-six and tmenty-seven," are as follo~s: ARTICLE XXVI. Theunited States guarantee to thc people of the Cherokee Nation the quiet and poaoeahle possession of their eount~ya, nd proteotion against don~estic feuds md insurreotians, and against hostilities of other tribes. They shall slso be pro- |