206 CHEROKEE NATION OF INDIANS. 
Creek Indians, it became necessary to drop further negotiations on the 
subject, and the matter was not again revived in this form. 
After the treaty of 1814 with the Creeks, however, whereby General 
Jackson exacted from them, as indemnity for the expenses of the war, 
the cession of an immense tract of country in Alabama and Georgia,! 
the question of the proper limits of this cession on the north and west 
became a subject of controversy between the United States and the 
Cherokees, Choctaws, and Chickasaws. 
The United States authorities at Washington were anxious that noth- 
ing should occur in the adjustment of these boundaries which should 
cause a feeling of irritation among those tribes. Commissioners had 
been appointed in the summer of 1815 to survey and mark the bound- 
aries of this Creek cession, and in August of that year we find the 
Secretary of War giving instructions to Agent Meigs, of the Cherokees, 
to meet the boundary commissioners, with a few of the principal Chero- 
kee chiefs, at the point on Coosa River where the south boundary of 
the Cherokee Nation crossed the same, in order that the Cherokees 
should be satisfied that the commissioners began at the proper point. 
Several additional reminders were given the agent, during the progress 
of the survey, that the matter of boundary was a question of fact to be 
ascertained and determined from the best attainable evidence, and that 
care must be taken that no injustice should be done the Cherokees.” 
In the following spring® a delegation of Cherokees was brought to Wash- 
ington, by direction of the War Department, and, pending the comple- 
tion of treaty negotiations with them, the boundary commissioners were 
instructed not to mark the line between the Cherokees and the Creek 
cession until further orders. 
These negotiations resulted in a second treaty of March 22, 18164 
(the one for the cession of the tract in South Carolina bears the same 
date), wherein it was declared that the northern boundary line of the 
Creek cession of 1814 should be established by the running of a line 
from a point on the west bank of Coosa River opposite to the lower end 
of the Ten Islands, above Fort Strother, directly to the Flat Rock or 
Stone on Bear Creek, said Flat Rock being the southwest corner of the 
Cherokee possessions, as defined by the treaty with them concluded 
January 7, 1806. 
This boundary brought forth a vigorous though unavailing protest 
from General Jackson, who argued that the Cherokees never had any 
right to territory south of the Tennessee and west of Coosa River, but 
that it belonged to the Creeks and was properly within the limits of 
their cession of 1814.° 

1 United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 120. 
2 Letter of Secretary of War to Agent Meigs, November 22, 1815. 
® March, 1816. 
+United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 139. 
5 Letter from General Jackson to Secretary of War, June 10, 1816. 
