Done at camp, at Payne’s Landing, on the Ocklawaha River, in the territory of Florida, on this ninth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and of the independence of the United States of America, the fifty-sixth.

    (Signed) James Gadsden.  L.S. 
    Holati Emathlar, his X mark. 
    Jumper, his X mark. 
    Cudjo, Interpreter, his X mark. 
    Erastus Rodgers. 
    B. Joscan. 
    Holati Emathlar, his X mark. 
    Jumper, his X mark. 
    Fuch-ta-lus-ta-Hadjo, his X mark. 
    Charley Emathla, his X mark. 
    Coi Hadjo, his X mark. 
    Ar-pi-uck-i, or Sam
    Jones, his X mark. 
    Ya-ha-Hadjo, his X mark. 
    Mico-Noha, his X mark. 
    Tokose Emathla, or
    John Hicks, his X mark. 
    Cat-sha-Tustenuggee, his X mark. 
    Holat-a-Micco, his X mark. 
    Hitch-it-i-Micco, his X mark. 
    E-na-hah, his X mark. 
    Ya-ha-Emathla-Chopco, his X mark. 
    Moki-his-she-lar-ni, his X mark.

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 government will make arrangements for their emigration, satisfactory to the Seminole nation.”  They of course had no authority to act on their own