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412.See proceedings of council.

413.National Intelligencer, May 22, 1838.

414.Schermerhorn to Commissioner of Indian Affairs, December 31, 1835.

415.See report of proceedings of council.

416.National Intelligencer, May 22, 1838.

417.United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 488.

418.In addition to these sums, an appropriation of $1,047,067 was made by the act of June 13, 1838, in full of all objects specified in the third supplemental article and for the one year's subsistence provided for in the treaty.

419.Commissioner of Indian Affairs to John Ross, March 9, 1836.

420.Hon. P. M. Butler, in a confidential letter to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, March 4, 1842, says: "The treaty, as the Department is aware, was sustained by the Senate of the United States by a majority of one vote."

421.United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 478 et seq.

422.July 25, 1836.

423.July 30, 1836.

424.The Secretary of War, October 12, 1836, directed General Wool to inform Mr. Ross that the President regarded the proceedings of himself and associates in council as in direct contravention of the plighted faith of their people, and a repetition of them would be considered as indicative of a design to prevent the execution of the treaty even at the hazard of actual hostilities, and they would be promptly repressed.

425.October 17, 1836.

426.Senate confidential document, April 12, 1836, p. 200.

427.National Intelligencer, May 22, 1838.

428.National Intelligencer, May 22, 1838.

429.June 3, 1837.

430.July 15, 1837.

431.September 25, 1837.

432.September 30, 1836.

433.October 25, 1836.

434.Secretary of War to Andrew Jackson, August 21, 1837.

435.October 16, 1837.

436.The amounts adjudicated and paid by this commission, as shown by the records of the Indian Office (see Commissioner of Indian Affairs' letter of March 7, 1844), were as follows:

(The figures as given here are correctly copied from the commissioner's letter, but there is an obvious error either in the footing or in the items.)

437.January 3, 1837.

438.December 1, 1836.

439.This census showed a distribution of the Cherokee population, according to State boundaries, as follows:

440.Secretary of War to Col. William Lindsay, May 8, 1837.

441.March 26, 1838.

442.Speech in reply to Mr. Halsey, of Georgia, January 2, 1838.

443.May 22, 1838.

444.National Intelligencer, June 8, 1838.

445.Secretary of War to James K. Polk, Speaker of the House of Representatives, January 8, 1838.

446.General Macomb to General Scott, April 6, 1838.

447.May 10, 1838.

448.May 18, 1838.

449.Annual report of Commissioner of Indian Affairs, November 25, 1838.

450.Proposal was accepted July 25; emigration to begin September 1 and end before October 20, 1838.

451.The number, according to the rolls of John Ross, who removed under his direction, was 13,149. According to the rolls of Captain Stevenson, the agent who received them on their arrival West, there were only 11,504, and, according to Captain Page, the disbursing officer, there were 11,721. Mr. Ross received on his settlement with Captain Page subsequent to the removal, $486,939.50 1/ 4, which made a total payment to Ross by the Government on account of Cherokee removals of $1,263,338.38. (Letter of Commissioner Indian Affairs, June 15, 1842). See, also, Commissioner of Indian Affairs to Commissioner of Land Office, January 9, 1839.

452.Commissioner of Indian Affairs to Secretary of War, September 12, 1839.

453.April 21, 1840.

454.Report of Commissioner of Indian Affairs for 1839.

455.Letter of John Ross to General Arbuckle, June 24, 1839.

456.June 22, 1839.

457.Agent Stokes to Secretary of War, June 24, 1839.

458.July 5, 1839.

459.August 9, 1839.

460.August 27, 1839.

461.August 23, 1839.

462.July 7, 1839.

463.July 10, 1839.

464.August 21, 1839.

465.September 4, 1839, et seq.

466.November 9, 1839.

467.January 22, 1840.

468.April 21, 1840.

469.Coody, in an interview with the Secretary of War, persisted in considering the murders of Boudinot and the Ridges as justifiable. General Arbuckle's letter of notification bore date April 21, 1840.

470.Commissioner of Indian Affairs to Maj. William Armstrong, August 26, 1840.

471.September 22, 1841.

472.March 4, 1842.

473.September 9, 1842.

474.November 8, 1842.

475.United States Statute at Large, Vol. IX, p. 871.

476.May 6, 1844.

477.May 30, 1844.

478.Letter of Secretary of War to Commissioners Jones and Butler, October 18, 1844.

479.October 18, 1844.

480.Letter of General Jones to Commissioner of Indian Affairs, November 17, 1844.

481.He was one of the chiefs of the Arkansas delegation who signed the treaty of May 6, 1828. (See United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 314.)

482.Letters of September 12 and November 23, 1844, from Agent Butler to Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

483.Letter of Commissioner Indian Affairs to Agent Butler, January 17, 1845.

484.Letter of Oo-no-leh to Agent Butler, May 15, 1845. Guess left a widow, a son, and two daughters. Hon. T. L. McKenny, in a letter to the Secretary of War, December 13, 1825, says: "His name is Guess, and he is a native and unlettered Cherokee. Like Cadmus, he has given to the people the alphabet of their language. It is composed of eighty-six characters, by which in a few days the older Indians who had despaired of deriving an education by means of the schools * * * may read and correspond." Agent Butler, in his annual report for 1845, says: "The Cherokees who cannot speak English acquire their own alphabet in twenty-four hours."

485.September 1, 1845.

486.October 22, 1845.

487.November 12, 1845. They explored up the valley of Stone Fort Creek a distance of 30 miles.

488.Report of the exploring party to their council.

489.January 19, 1846.

490.Letter to the President, February 10, 1846.

491.Letter to the Secretary of War, February 12, 1846.

492.April 2, 1846.

493.Letter of Agent McKissick to Commissioner Indian Affairs, May 12, 1846, and General Arbuckle to Adjutant-General, April 28, 1846.

494.Report of Agent McKissick July 4, 1846.

495.Commissioner Indian Affairs to Maj. William Armstrong, June 24, 1846.

496.July 6, 1846.

497.United States Statutes at Large, Vol. IX, p. 871.

498.The subject of the North Carolina Cherokee interests was also referred to this commission July 13, 1846.

499.Report of Commissioner Indian Affairs to Secretary Interior, January 20, 1855.

500.Second Comptroller of the Treasury to Commissioner of Indian Affairs, February 6, 1849.

501.United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 478.