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Natchez. The entire line of this road must be open to the free use of 
citizens of the United States. 
4. In case the Indians should refuse to cede any of the lands desig- 
nated, the commissioners were instructed to obtain, if possible, a cession 
of all the land lying northward of the road leading from Knoxville to 
the Nashville settlements, run conformably to the treaty of 1791. If 
they should be unwilling to grant this, then to ask for a strip of land 
from 1 to 5 miles in width, to include the said road in its whole extent 
across their lands. Whether success or failure should attend the first 
or second objects of their mission, the commissioners were te seek the 
consummation of the third proposition for a road to the Bear Creek 
reservation, which would otherwise be of no practical value to the 
United States. 
If consent was obtained to the first three proposals or to the alterna- 
tive marked 4th, an annuity of $1,000 was authorized and an immedi- 
ate sum not exceeding $5,000 in cash or goods. If, as had been repre- 
sented to the War Department, the Cherokees and Chickasaws both 
claimed the land on either side of Tennessee River for a considerable 
distance, the commissioners were instructed that they must obtain the 
assent of both tribes to the opening of the road. 
Six days after the issuance of these instructions, a delegation of 
Cherokees, headed by Chief “Glass,” arrived in Washington, and ob- 
tained an interview with the Secretary of War. They represented that 
the promise had been made them, at the treaty of 1798, that they would 
never be asked to cede any more land. Now they learned that the 
United States was about to hold another treaty with them to secure 
further cessions. They also desired to know whether the United States 
or the settlers got the land theretofore ceded, and why they had not 
been furnished with the map showing the boundary lines by the treaty 
of 1798, as had been promised them. In his reply,? after seeing the 
President, the Secretary of war informed them that no desire existed 
to purchase any more land from them unless they were anxious to sell; 
that the map should be at once furnished them; that the States of 
Kentucky and Tennessee had been formed out of the lands already 
purchased from them, and the main object of the proposed treaty with 
their nation was to secure the right of way for roads through their 
country in order to maintain communication between detached white 
settlements. 
The delegation strenuously objected to the proposed “Georgia” road 
and were informed that the matter would not be pressed, but that the 
road to Bear River and Natchez was a necessity. 
As a result of the visit of this delegation, the instructions to Messrs. 
Wilkinson, Davie, and Hawkins were modified,” it being stated by the 
‘This interview occurred, as shown by the Indian Office records, on the 30th of 
June, 1801, and was adjourned to meet again on the 3d of July. 
2 July 3, 1801. See Indian Office records. 

