Proclamation of August 26, 1790. Regarding Treaties with the Cherokee, Choctaw and Chickasaw.

     BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
                           A PROCLAMATION.

         Whereas it hath at this time become peculiarly necessary to warn the
    citizens of the United States against a violation of the treaties made at
    Hopewell, on the Keowee, on the 28th day of November, 1785, and on the
    3d and 10th days of January, 1786, between the United States and the
    Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw nations of Indians, and to enforce
    an act entitled "An act to regulate trade and intercourse with the
    Indian tribes," copies of which treaties and act are hereunto annexed, I
    have therefore thought fit to require, and I do by these presents require,
    all officers of the United States, as well civil as military, and all other
    citizens and inhabitants thereof, to govern themselves according to the
    treaties and act aforesaid, as they will answer the contrary at their peril.

         Given under my hand and the seal of the United States, in the city of
    New York, the 26th day of August, A. D. 1790, and in the fifteenth year
    of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States.

         Go WASHINGTON.

         By the President:

         TH: JEFFERSON.

 Source:
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Prepared under the direction of the Joint Committee on printing, of the House and Senate Pursuant to an Act of the Fifty-Second Congress of the United States. New York : Bureau of National Literature, Inc., 1897