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afterwards alleged by their chiefs, they only desired to surrender the 
country lying south of a line commencing at the Falls of the Verdigris 
and running due east to the treaty line of 1808, and east of another 
line beginning at the same place and running due south as far as their 
possessions should extend, and thence east again to the 1808 boundary, 
excepting and reserving therefrom the point of land between the Ver- 
digris and Six Bulls or Grand River. The Osages, never having been 
informed that the treaty was not duly authorized and had not been con- 
firmed, still considered the country described therein as belonging to 
the United States, and had repeatedly solicited whites to settle on it, 
alleging that the main object of the cession on their part was to secure 
the convenient approach of civilized neighbors, who should instruct the 
men how to cultivate the ground and the women to spin and weave, that 
they might be able to live when the forests should afford no further 
supplies of game. They were therefore much irritated when they 
found civilized settlements prohibited, in order to protect the introduce. 
tion and establishment adjoining or upon this territory of their inveter- 
ate enemies, the Cherokees. 
Western outlet. —The indefinite outlet to the west which had been 
promised the Cherokees by the President in 1818 formed the subject 
of much complaint by them from time to time. In the spring of 1823! 
they were advised that until their western boundary was established 
it would be improper to make any decision upon the “outlet” question. 
Two years earlier? it had been declared to them that in removing settlers 
from ‘“ Lovely’s Purchase,” for the purpose of giving them their western 
outlet, it must always be understood that they thereby acquired no 
right to the soil, and that the Government reserved to itself the right 
of making such disposition as it might think proper of all salt springs 
therein. But this troublous question was definitively disposed of when 
the treaty of 1825 came to be negotiated. 
By the provisions of an act of Congress approved April 5, 1826,° the 
land districts of the Territory of Arkansas were extended so as to in- 
clude all the country within the limits of that Territory as then existing 
(the limits having been extended 40 miles to the west by act of Con- 
gress of May 26, 1824),* with the proviso, however, that nothing in the 
act should be so construed as to authorize any survey or interference 
whatever upon any lands the right whereof resided in any Indian 
tribes. Notwithstanding this proviso, reports became current that sur- 
veys had been begun of ‘“ Lovely’s Purchase,” causing much irritation 
and ill feeling among the Cherokees and eliciting an order® from the 
Secretary of War forbidding any further surveys until it should be 

1 Secretary of War to Arkansas Cherokee delegation in Washington, February 12, 
1823. 
* Secretary of War to Arkansas Cherokee delegation in Washington, October 8, 
1821. 
5 United States Statutes at Large, Vol. IV, p. 153. 
* United States Statutes at Large, Vol. IV, p. 40. 
5 April 3, 1827. 
