Washington telegraph., 1854-03-22
A Bib to Organize Indian Terri.
tories

We are indebted to the Hon. RoB'T W.
JOHNSON for copy of Bill introduced by
him in the Senate of the United States, to
establish and organize the Territories of
Chel-o-kee, Muscogee and Chah-ta, OF our
Western borders; to extend the protec-
ton of the constitution and laws of the Uni
ted States over the Cherokee, Muscogee or
Creek, Seminole, Choctaw and Chickasaw
nations of Indians, and to enable them to
advance in civilization. and eventually to en-
JOY the rights and privileges of citizens of
the United States. The bill provides for
the election of Governors of the different
Territories, members of the Legislature,
and delegates to Congress, and for the or
ganization Of District Courts of the United
States in each of the Territories, and the
appointment of District Judges and Attor-
neys.
The first section fixes the limits of the
different Territories as follows:
Beginning at a point on the old western
territorial line of Arkansas Territory, being
% miles north FROM the point where the
said territorial line crosses the Arkansas
river; thence running from said north point
south with said territorial line to the point
where it crosses the Eerdigris river; thence
down said Verdigris river to the Arkansas
river; thence down said Arkansas river to
point where stone was placed in the year
1888, opposite the east or lower bank of
the Neosho or Grand river, at its junction
with the Arkansas; thence running south
A degs. west, one mile thence in straight
line to point four miles northerly from the
mouth of the north fork of the Canadian
river; thence along the said four mile line
to the Canadian river; thence down the
Canadian river to the Arkansas river; thence
down the Arkansas river to that point
on the same where the eastern Choctaw
boundary line strikes said river; thence
running with the western boundary line of
the State of Arkansas to to the southwest
corner of Missouri; thence along said west
ern boundary line of Missouri to the lands
assigned to the Senecas; thence on the south
line of the Senecas to Grand river; thence
up Grand river, to the southwest corner of
the 100000 acres or the neutral ground be-
longing to the Cherokees thence with the
southern boundary line Of these lands to the
western boundary line of Missouri to the
S7th parallel of north latitude; thence with
that parallel of latitude to the Tooth paral-
lei of west longitude; thence with that par
allel to where 1t crosses the northern line of
Texas thence with that line to the IO3d
parallel of west longitude thence with that
parallel of longitude to where it crosses the
37th parallel of north latitude; thence with
that parallel of latitude to where it crosses
the Tooth parallel of west longitude thence
with said parallel of longitude to a point on
the same due west from the place of BEGIN
ming; and thence due east to the place of
beginning shall be, with the assent of the
Cherokee nation of Indians, to be Obtained
in the manner hereinafter provided for
erected into special and qualified Terrific.
~ of the United States, to be called the
Territory of Chel-o-kee: And all that nor.
tion of country south and west of said Ter.
ritory of Chel-o-kee bounded on the north
and east by said Territory of Chel-o-kec on
the south by the Canadian river, and on the
west by the Tooth parallel of west longitude