ROYCE. ] TREATY OF AUGUST 6, 1846. 321 
3. The United States to compensate the Cherokees living on the 
800,000 acre tract for the value of their improvements. 
4. The United States to rectify the injustice done to many individual 
Cherokees in regard to their claims under the treaty of 1835. 
5. The United States to compensate the Cherokees for damages sus- 
tained through the action of citizens of the former in driving and pas- 
turing stock in the Cherokee country, and to provide effectual measures 
for the prevention of such losses in the future. 
6. The United States to cause a careful investigation to e made as to 
the status of the Cherokee invested fund and to render an account of 
the accrued and unpaid interest thereon. 
7. The Cherokees to be reimbursed for money expended out of their 
funds for subsistence after the expiration of the period of “ one year” 
provided by the treaty of 1835, but before their people had opportunity 
to become settled in their new homes 
8. A just compensation to be made to the Cherokees for the heavy 
losses sustained in their sudden and forced removal from their Eastern 
home. 
9. An absolute and speedy removal of the garrison at Fort Gibson. 
10. That the treaty should contain a clear and specific definition of 
the rights and status of the Cherokee Nation in its political attitude 
toward and relations with the United States. 
The proposed treaty formed the subject of much careful considera- 
tion, and negotiations were conducted throughout a large portion of 
the winter, without, however, reaching satisfactory results. 
The failure of the delegation to secure definite action on these mat- 
ters caused a great degree of dissatisfaction among all classes of their 
people.! They were anxious to sell their surplus detached land, and 
by that means free themselves from financial embarrassment. They 
were fully conscious that, so long as their financial affairs continued in 
such a erippled condition, there was little ground for a hopeful advance- 
ment in their morals or civilization. A traditional prejudice against 
the policy of parting with any of their public domain was deep seated 
and well nigh universal among the Cherokees, but so grinding and irk- 
some had the burdens of their pecuniary responsibilities becoine and so 
anxious were they to discharge in good faith their duty to their cred- 
itors that this feeling of aversion was subordinated to what was believed 
to be a national necessity. 
SLAVERY IN THE CHEROKEE NATION. 
The reports of the Cherokee agent during the year 1855 devote con- 
siderable space to the discussion of the slavery question in its relations 
to and among that nation, from which it appears that considerable local 
excitement, as well as a general feeling of irritation and insecurity 
among the holders of slave property, had been superinduced by the 

‘Annual report of Agent Butler for 1855. 
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