Tennessee Supreme Court July 15, 1830 (M'Connell v. Mousepaine's Lessee)

Opinion of the court delivered by

Judge Catron.

(Whyte, Judge, absent.) By the 8th article of the treaty of 1817, it is provided, that to each head of an Indian family, who may wish to become a citizen of the United States, the United States do agree to give six hundred and forty acres of land, to include his improvement, which is to be as near the centre as practicable.