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In the Treaty of 1819, among other provisions is the following. Art. 2 The United States agree to allow a reservation of six hundred and forty acres to every head of an Indian family residing within the ceded territory; "those enrolled for Arkansas excepted." Thus Mr Watts, by his enrollment, under the Treaty of 1817, was precluded from the right to a reservation. Under the provisions of the Treaty of 1819 "Art. 3." is the following. "In addition to the above reservations, the following are made in fee simple; the persons for whom they are intended not residing on the same." -- "To John Ross 640 acres to be laid off so as to include the Big Island in Tennessee River." This is the tract in question. Now, Watts, having thus relinquished his right & title to this land, and, being by the "Treaty, precluded from the right to a reservation; what possible damage could be sustained by him from the circumstance of Mr Ros's reservation being so located as to include the island, of which they once held joint possession. This statement is in exact agreement with Mr John Watts's own account of the matter,