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Proclamation—Publishing a Treaty of Peace and Friendship Between the United States and the Creek Nation of Indians

August 14, 1790


By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

Whereas a treaty of peace and friendship between the United States and the Creek Nation was made and concluded on the 7th day of the present month of August; and

Whereas I have, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, in due form ratified the said treaty:

Now, therefore, to the end that the same may be observed and performed with good faith on the part of the United States, I have ordered the said treaty to be herewith published; and I do hereby enjoin and require all officers of the United States, civil and military, and all other citizens and inhabitants thereof, faithfully to observe and fulfill the same.

Given under my hand and the seal of the United States, in the city of New York, the 14th 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.

George Washington, Proclamation—Publishing a Treaty of Peace and Friendship Between the United States and the Creek Nation of Indians Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/200923

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