ROYCE. } TREATY OF JULY 2, 1791. 163 
sisted on beginning on the part where they were most tenacious of the 
land, in preference to the mouth of Duck River, where the Hopewell 
treaty line began. The land to the right of the line was declared to 
belong to the United States, because no given point of the compass 
would describe it. In accordance with his instructions, Governor Blount 
proposed to the Indians that the ridge dividing the waters of Little 
River from those of the Tennessee should form a part of the boundary. 
To this the Indians would not agree, but insisted on the Straight line 
which should cross the Holston where that ridge should strike it. Goy- 
ernor Blount explains that this line is not so limited by the treaty as to 
the point at which it shall leave the north line or at which it shall 
strike the Clineh,but that it might be so run as either to inelude or 
leave out the settlers south of the ridge; the only stipulations respect- 
ing it being that it should cross the Holston at the ridge, and should be 
run by commissioners appointed by the respective parties. 
He urged that the line should be run immediately after the ratifica- 
tion of the treaty, as settlers were already located in the immediate 
vicinity of it, and more were preparing to follow 
The President transmitted the treaty to the Senate with his mes- 
Sage of October 26, 179J,! and Senator Hawkins, from the committee 
to whom it was referred, reported it back to the Senate on the 9th of No- 
vember following, recommending that the Senate advise and consent to 
its ratification. 
On the 19th of the same month the Secretary of War advised Gov- 
ernor Blount that the treaty had been ratified by the President, by and 
with the advice and consent of the Senate, and inclosed him 50 printed 
copies for distribution, although the United States Statutes at Large 
[Vol. VII, p. 39] give the date of the proclamation of the treaty as Feb- 
ruary 7, 1792.8 
SURVEY OF NEW BOUNDARIES. 
The Secretary also intrusted the matter of the survey of the new 
boundary to the discretion of Governor Blount, and suggested the ap- 
pointment of Judge Campbell, Daniel Smith, and Col. Landon Carter as 
commissioners to superintend the same. This Suggestion was subse- 
quently modified by the appointment of Charles MeLung and John 
McKee in place of Smith and Carter. Governor Blount designated the 
Ist of May as the date for the survey to commence. Andrew Ellicott 
Was appointed surveyor, he having been previously appointed to survey 
the line under the Creek treaty of 1790.4 Before these arrangements 
could be carried out, the Secretary of War again wrote Governor 
Blount,’ remarking that while it was important the line should be run,, 

‘American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 123. 
SUD eps 135: 
3Ib., p. 629. 
4Ib., p. 628-630. 
* January 31,1792. See American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 629. 
