By the third article of the treaty with the Seminoles (14 Stat.. 756). said Indians ceded to the United States about 2.100.000 acres of land "in compliance with the desire of the United States to locate other Indians and freedmen thereon." In compliance with the same desire. the Creeks. by the third article of the treaty with that tribe (14 Stat.. 786). ceded about 3.200.000 acres to the United States. "to be sold to and used as homes for such other civilized Indians as the United States may choose to settle thereon." The lands reconveyed to the United States by the foregoing treaties are therefore held subject to the trust named. They can be appropriated only to the uses specified. and.to those uses only by theUnited States. and then only in the manner provided for bylaw. Miscellaneous immigration even by the intended benefaciaries would be unauthorized andillegal. The Choctaw and Chickasaw cession of April 28.1866 (14 Statutes. 760). was by the tenth section thereof made subject to the conditions of the compact of June 22188114 Sttutes. 613). by the ninth article of which it was stipulated that the land. shoube appropriated for the permanent settlement of such tribes or bands of Indians as the United States may desire to locate thereon. Articles 15 and 16 of the treaty with the Cherokees (14 Stat.. 803. 804) provide that the United States may settle any civilized Indians friendly with the Cherokees and adjacent tribes within -the Cherokee country. on unoccupied lands. on certain terms and conditions specified in the treaty. .
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