ee CHEROKEE NATION OF INDIANS. 
the Cherokees to secure an indefinite outlet west, in order that they 
should not in the future, by the encroachments of the whites and the 
diminution of game, be deprived of uninterrupted access to the more 
remote haunts of the buffalo and other large game animals. He was 
instructed to do everything consistent with justice in the matter to fa- 
vor the Cherokees by securing from the Osages the concession of such 
a privilege, it being the object of the President that every favorable in- 
ducement should be held out to the Cherokees east of the Mississippi 
to remove and join their western brethren. This extension of their ter- 
ritory to the west was promised them by the President in the near fu- 
ture, and in the summer of 1819! the Secretary of War instructed 
Zeuben Lewis, United States Indian agent, to assure the Cherokees 
that the President, through the recent accession of territory from the 
Osages, was ready and willing to fulfill his promise. 
Survey of east boundary of Cherokees in Arkansas.—Provision having 
been made in the treaty of 1817? for a definition of the east line of the 
tract assigned the Cherokees on the Arkansas, Mr. Reuben Lewis, the 
Indian agent in that section, was designated, in the fall of 1818,° to run 
and mark the line, and upon its completion to cause to be removed, with- 
out delay, all white settlers living west thereof, with the single excep- 
tion mentioned in the treaty. 
These instructions to Mr. Lewis miscarried in the mails and did not 
reach him until the following summer. The line had in the mean time 
been run by General William Rector, under the authority of the Cominis- 
sioner of the General Land Office, which survey Mr. Lewis was author- 
ized to accept as the correct boundary provided the Cherokees were sat- 
isfied therewith. The field notes of this survey were certified by Gen- 
eral Rector April 14, 1819, and show the length of the line from Point 
Remove to White River to have been 71 miles.55 chains and the course 
N. 53° E> 
Treaty between Cherokees and Osages.—During this interval® Governor 
Clark had succeeded in securing the presence at Saint Louis of repre- 
sentative delegations of both the Osage and Western Cherokee tribes, 
between whom, after protracted negotiations, he succeeded in establish- 
ing the most peaceful and harmonious relations, which were evidenced 
by all the usual formalities of a treaty. 
DISPUTES AMONG CHEROKEES CONCERNING EMIGRATION. 
The unhappy differences of mind among the Cherokees east of the 
Mississippi on the subject of removal, which had been fast approaching 

1 July 22. 
>United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 156. 
>Letter of Secretary of War to Capt. William Bradford, September 9, 1818. 
‘Secretary of War to Agent Lewis, July 22, 1819. 
° Field notes and diagram on file in Indian Office. 
6 October 6, 1818. 
