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of the 4^th article of the Treaty referred to in the Resolution
of the Senate as above

Article 4. The Commissioners agree on the
further and particular application of the
Chiefs, and for the benifit [sic] of the poor and War
=riors of ^the said nation, that is a tract of land contain
-ing four miles square, to include a salt lick
or Springs, on or near the river Sandy, a
branch of the Tennessee river, and within the
land hereby ceded, to be reserved, and laid off
in a Square or oblong, so as to include the
best Timber, at the option of their beloved
Chief Levi Colbert, and Maj^r James Brown
or either of them; who are hereby made agents
and Trustees for the nation, to lease the said
salt Lick or springs, on the following express
conditions Viz. For the benifit [sic] of this reservation
as before recited, the Trustees or agents are
bound to lease the said reservation to some
Citizen or Citizens of the United States, for a reason
=able quantity of Salt, to be paid annully
to the said nation, for the use thereof; and
that from and after two years after
the ratification of this Treaty, no salt
made at the works, to be erected on this
reservation, shall be sold within the limits
of the same, for a higher price than one
dollar per Bushel of fifty pounds weight;
on failure of which the lease shall be
forfeited, and the reservation revert to
the United States.