ROYCE. ] TREATY OF APRIL 27, 1868. 341 
be paid to the Secretary of the Interior, as trustee for the Cherokee 
Nation. 
2. The other deferred payments shall be paid when they fall due, 
with interest only from the ratification hereof. 
It is distinctly understood that said Joy shall take only the residue 
of said lands after securing to “actual settlers” the lands to which 
they are entitled under the amended seventeenth article of the treaty of 
July 19, 1866. The proceeds of the sales of such lands so occupied by 
settlers shall inure to the benefit of the Cherokee Nation. 
HISTORICAL DATA, 
UNITED STATES DESIRE TO REMOVE INDIANS FROM KANSAS TO INDIAN TERRITORY. 
It had for several years been the hope of the Government that so soon 
as the war was ended arrangements could be perfected whereby conces- 
sions of territory could be obtained from the principal Southern tribes. 
To territory thus acquired it was proposed, after obtaining their consent, 
to remove the several tribes possessing reservations in Kansas, or at 
least such of them as were not prepared or willing to dissolve their 
tribal relations and become citizens of the United States. The fertile 
and agreeable prairies of that State were being rapidly absorbed by an 
ever increasing stream of immigration, which gave promise as soon as 
the war should close and the armies be disbanded of an indefinite in- 
crease. The numerous Indian reservations dotting the face of the 
State in all directions afforded most desirable farming and grazing lands 
that would soon be needed for this rapidly multiplying white population. 
COUNCIL OF SOUTHERN TRIBES AT CAMP NAPOLEON. 
It was, therefore, with much gratification that the Secretary of the 
Interior learned during the month of June, 1865,' of the holding of a 
council at Camp Napoleon, Chattatomha, on the 24th of May preceding, 
which was attended by representatives of all the southern and south- 
western tribes, as well as by the Osages. At this council delegates 
representing each tribe had been appointed to visit Washington, author- 
ized to enter into treaty negotiations. Before these delegations were 
ready to start, however, it had been determined by the President to 
appoint special commissioners, who should proceed to the Indian coun- 
try and meet them at Fort Smith. 
GENERAL COUNCIL AT FORT SMITH. 
This commission as constituted consisted of D. N. Cooley, Com- 
missioner of Indian Affairs; Elijah Sells, superintendent of Indian 
affairs; Thomas Wistar, a leading Quaker; General W. 8S. Harney, of 
the United States Army; and Col. E. S. Parker, of General Grant’s 
iLetter of General J. J. Reynolds to Secretary of the Interior, June 28, 1865; 
printed in report of Commissioner of Indian Affairs for 1865, p. 299. 

