Now, therefore, be it known that I, Andrew Jackson, President of the
United States of America, having seen and considered said treaty,
do, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, as expressed
by their resolution of the eighth day of April, one thousand eight
hundred and thirty-four, accept, ratify, and confirm the same, and
every clause and article thereof.

In witness whereof, I have caused the seal of the United States to
be hereunto affixed, having signed the same with my hand. Done at
the city of Washington, this twelfth day of April, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, and of the
independence of the United States of America, the fifty-eighth.

(Signed) ANDREW JACKSON. By the President,
LOUIS MCLANE, Secretary of State.

It will be seen that by the terms of this document seven chiefs were to
go and examine the country assigned to the Creeks, and that they were to
be accompanied by Major John Phagan, the successor of Humphreys, and the
Negro interpreter Abraham. The character of Phagan may be seen from the
facts that he was soon in debt to different ones of the Indians and to
Abraham, and that he was found to be short in his accounts. While the
Indian chiefs were in the West, three United States commissioners
conferred with them as to the suitability of the country for a future
home, and at Fort Gibson, Arkansas, March 28, 1833, they were beguiled
into signing an additional treaty in which occurred the following
sentence: "And the undersigned Seminole chiefs, delegated as aforesaid,
on behalf of their nation, hereby declare themselves well satisfied with
the location provided for them by the commissioners, and agree that
their nation shall commence the removal to their new home as soon as the