Andrew Jackson, President of the United States of America, to all and singular to whom these presents shall come, greeting : whereas articles of agreement and convention, between the United States of America and the Cherokee Nation of Indians west of the Mississippi, were made and concluded at Fort Gibson, on the Arkansas River, on the fourteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, by Montfort Stokes, Henry L. Ellsworth and John F. Schermerhorn, commissioners on the part of the United States, and the chiefs and head-men of the said Cherokee Nation of Indians west of the Mississippi, on the part of said nation ...