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was desirable that the eastern line of both cessions should be one and the 
same, foralthough by the Chickasaw treaty the whole waters of Blk River 
were included, it was evident their claim to any lands east of the line 
agreed upon by the Cherokees was more than doubtful; that, there- 
fore, the United States ought not to insist on such a line as would go 
to the eastward of the one defined in the Cherokee treaty, unless the 
latter could be prevailed upon to extend the same, in which event they 
were authorized to offer the Cherokees a moderate compensation there- 
for. 
EXPLANATORY TREATY NEGOTIATED, 
This led, upon the assembly of the commissioners and surveyor at 
Chickasaw Old Fields, in the fall of 1807 (for the purpose of surveying 
and marking the boundary lines in question), to the negotiation of an 
explanatory treaty with certain of the Cherokee chiefs, on the 11th of 
September, 1807,! whereby it was agreed that the Cherokee cession line 
should be extended so far to the eastward as to include all the waters 
of Elk River and thereby be made coincident and uniform with the 
Chickasaw line. 
Secret article—The ostensible consideration paid for this concession, 
as shown by the treaty, was $2,000; but it was secretly agreed that 
$1,000 and two rifles should be given to the chiefs with whom the treaty 
was negotiated.” 
President Jefferson transmitted this latter treaty to the Senate on the 
29th of March, 1808, and having received the consent of that body to its 
ratification, it was proclaimed by the President on the 22d of April 
following. 
TREATY CONCLUDED MARCH 22, 1816; RATIFIED APRIL 8, 18168 
Held at Washington City, D. C., between George Graham, specially au- 
thorized as commissioner therefor by the President of the United States, 
and certain chiefs and headmen duly authorized and empowered by the 
Cherokee Nation. 
MATERIAL PROVISIONS. 
1. The Cherokees cede to the State of South Carolina the following 
tract: Beginning on the east bank of Chattuga River, where the boun- 
dary line of the Cherokee Nation crosses the same, running thence 
with the said boundary line to a rock on the Blue Ridge, where the 
boundary line crosses the same, and which rock has been lately estab- 

‘United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 103. 
> Letter of Return J. Meigs to Secretary of War, September 28,1807,in which he 
says: ‘‘ With respect to the chiefs who have transacted the business with us, they will 
have their hands full to satisfy the ignorant, the obstinate, and the cunning of some 
of their own people, for which they well deserve this silent consideration.” 
* United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 138. 
