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ment authorities to hope that a change of sentiment on the subject of 
removal was rapidly taking place in their minds. In pursuance of this 
impression the Secretary of War, in the spring of 1832,! intrusted Mr. 
E. W. Chester with a mission to the Cherokees, and with instructions 
to offer them as a basis for the negotiation of a treaty the following 
terms: 
1. The United States to provide thein with a country west of Arkan- 
sas sufficiently large for their accommodation. 
2. This country to be conveyed to them by patent under the act of 
Congress of May 28, 1830, and to be forever outside the limits of any 
State or Territory. 
3. The Cherokees to retain and possess all the powers of self-govern- 
ment consistent with a supervisory authority of Congress. 
4, To have an agent resident in Washington to represent their in- 
terest, who should be paid by the United States. 
5. With the consent of Congress they should be organized as a Terri- 
tory and be represented by a delegate in that body. 
6. All white persons should be excluded from their country. 
7. The United States to remove them to their new country and to 
pay the expenses of such removal, which might be conducted in either 
of three ways, viz: 
(a) By a commutation in money, to be allowed either individuals or 
families. 
(b) By persons to be appointed and paid by the United States. 
(c) By arrangement among themselves, through which some compe- 
tent person should remove them at a fixed rate. 
8. The United States to provide them with subsistence for one year 
after removal. 
9. An annuity to be secured to them proportioned to the value of the 
cession of territory they should make. 
10. The United States to pay for all Indian improvements upon the 
ceded land. 
11. Provision to be made for the support of schools, teachers, black- 
smiths and their supplies, mills, school-houses, churches, council-houses, 
and houses for the principal chiefs. 
12. A rifle to be presented to each adult male, and blankets, axes, 
plows, hoes, spinning-wheels, cards, and looms to each family. 
15. Indian live stock to be valued and paid for by the United States. 
14, Annuities under former treaties to be paid to them upon their 
arrival west of the Mississippi. 
15. Provision to be made by the United States for Cherokee orphan 
children. 
16. Protection to be guaranteed to the Cherokees against hostile 
Indians. 

1April 17, 1832. 
