African race, of the United States and the Canadas in America,
on the second part, covenants:

ART. 1. That the King and Chiefs on their part, agree to grant and
assign unto the said Commissioners, on behalf of the African race
in America, the right and privilege of settling in common with the
Egba people, on any part of the territory belonging to Abbeokuta,
not otherwise occupied.

ART. 2. That all matters, requiring legal investigation among the
settlers, be left to themselves, to be disposed of according to
their own custom.

ART. 3. That the Commissioners, on their part, also agree that the
settlers shall bring with them, as an equivalent for the privileges
above accorded, Intelligence, Education, a Knowledge of the Arts
and Sciences, Agriculture, and other Mechanical and Industrial
Occupations, which they shall put into immediate operation, by
improving the lands, and in other useful vocations.

ART. 4. That the laws of the Egba people shall be strictly
respected by the settlers; and, in all matters in which both
parties are concerned, an equal number of commissioners, mutually
agreed upon, shall be appointed, who shall have power to settle
such matters.

* * * * *

As a pledge of our faith, and the sincerity of our hearts, we each
of us hereunto affix our hand and seal this Twenty-seventh day of
December, ANNO DOMINI, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-nine.

His Mark, + OKUKENU, Alake
His Mark, + SOMOYE, Ibashorum
His Mark, + SOKENU, Balagun
His Mark, + OGUBONNA, Balagun
His Mark, + ATAMBALA, Balagun
His Mark, + OGUSEYE, Anaba
His Mark, + NGTABO, Balagun, O.S.O.
His Mark, + OGUDEMU, Ageoko
M. R. DELANY
ROBERT CAMPBELL

Witness--SAMUEL CROWTHER, Jun.
Attest--SAMUEL CROWTHER, Sen.

Executive Council, and Ratification of the Treaty

On the next evening, the 28th, the king, with the executive council of
chiefs and elders, met at the palace in Ake, when the treaty was
ratified by an unanimous approval. Such general satisfaction ran through
the council, that the great chief, his highness Ogubonna, mounting his
horse, then at midnight, hastened to the residence of the Surgeon
Crowther, aroused his father the missionary and author, and hastily
informed him of the action of the council.