252 CHEROKEE NATION OF INDIANS. 
This treaty of February 14, 1833, with the latter tribe occasioned a 
material change in the boundaries previously assigned them. 
Instead of following the western line of Arkansas and Missouri as far 
north as the point where the Grand or Neosho River crosses the bound- 
ary of the latter State, and running from thence due west to a point 
due north of the old western boundary line of Arkansas Territory, and 
thence south to the Arkansas River, the new line followed the present 
western boundary of Arkansas and Missouri as far north as the south 
line of the territory then recently assigned to the Senecas ; thence west 
along the south line of the Senecas to Grand River, and following up 
Grand River to the south boundary of the Osage reservation, which 
was parallel with the present southern boundary of Kansas, and on the 
average about two miles to the north of it; thence west for quantity. 
PURCHASE OF OSAGE HALF-BREED RESERVES, 
Prior! to the conclusion of this treaty of 1833, a delegation of the 
Western Cherokees had visited Washington to insist upon a literal ful- 
fillment of the treaty of 1828 and especially to demand that they be 
possessed of all lands and improvements within the outboundaries of 
their country as defined by the last named treaty. The lands and im- 
provements alluded to were seven reservations of one section each on 
the Neosho River assigned to certain half-breed Osage Indians by the 
terms of the treaty of 1825? with that tribe. 
Although the treaty of 1833 failed to make provision for the extin- 
guishment of these Osage half-breed titles, the desired object was at- 
tained by the terms of the fourth article of the treaty of December 29, 
1835, wherein $15,000 were appropriated for the purchase. 
PRESIDENT JACKSON REFUSES TO APPROVE THE TREATY OF 1834. 
On the 10th of February, 1834, George Vashon, agent for the Western 
Cherokees, negotiated a treaty with them‘ having in view an adjust- 
ment of certain differences between themselves and their eastern breth- 
ren, whereby the feelings of the latter should be more favorably af- 
fected toward an emigration to the western country. The treaty pro- 
vided for a readjustment of the tribal annuities proportioned to the 
respective numbers of the Cherokees east and west, the basis of division 
to be ascertained by an accurate census. The country provided for the 
Cherokees by the treaty of 1833 was to be enlarged so that it should 
equal in quantity, acre for acre, the country ceded by the Cherokees 
east in 1817 and 1819, as well as the proportional quantity of those 
who should agree to emigrate to the West under the provisions of this 
treaty. It was also agreed that all Cherokees should possess equal 


‘In March, 1832. 
>United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 240. 
United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 478. 
+See Indian Office files. 
