ROYER. | TREATY OF APRIL 27, 1868. 365 
made for the removal of the Otoes and Missourias to the Indian Terri- 
tory and for the sale of their lands in Nebraska. 
A reservation was accordingly selected for them west of the Arkan- 
sas River and south of the Ponca Reserve, to which they were removed 
in the autumn of the same year.’ It contains 129,113.20 acres and was 
paid for at the same rate as that of the Poncas and Nez Percés.? 
EAST AND NORTIL BOUNDARIES OF CHEROKEE COUNTRY. 
For many years there had been much doubt and dispute concerning 
the correctness of the boundary line between the Cherokee Nation and 
the adjacent States. Especially had this been the cause of much con- 
troversy with the citizens of Arkansas. In the interest of a final adjust- 
ment of the matter, it was stipulated in the twenty-first article of the 
Cherokee treaty of July.19, 1866, that the United States should, at its 
own expense, cause such boundary to be resurveyed between the Cher- 
okee Nation and the States of Arkansas, Missouri, and of Kansas as far 
west as the Arkansas River, and the same should be marked by perma- 
nent and conspicuous monuments by two commissioners, one of whom 
should be designated by the Cherokee national council. 
Nothing definite was done in pursuance of this provision until the year 
1871, when W. D. Gallagher was* appointed a commissioner on behalf 
of the United States to co-operate with the commissioner on the part of 
the Cherokees. Mr. Gallagher declined and R. G. Corwin was. substi- 
tuted in his stead, but he having also refused to serve, the place was 
finally filled by the appointment’ of James M. Ashley. The Cherokee 
national council on their part selected John Lynch Adair. The com- 
mission advertised for proposals for the surveying, and, as a result, en- 
tered into contract with D. P. Mitchell, who completed the survey to 
the satisfaction of the commissioners. The new line from Fort Smith, 
Ark., to the southwest corner of Missouri ran north 7° 50! west, 77 
miles 59.08 chains; thence to the southeast corner of the Seneca lands 
it ran north 0° 02’ west 8 miles 53.68 chains. The north boundary 
between the nation and the State of Kansas, extending from the Neosho 
to the Arkansas River, was protracted due west on the 37° of north lati- 
tude and was found to be 105 miles 60 chains and 75 links in length. 
The report of the commissioners was approved by the Secretary of the 

‘Report of Commissioner of Indian Affairs for 1881, p. Ixiii. The removai was 
accomplished between October 5 and October 23. 
> Deeds were executed June 14, 1883, by the Cherokee Nation to the United States 
in trust for each of the tribes located upon Cherokee country west of 96°, such 
deeds being in each case for the quantity of land comprised within the tracts re- 
spectively selected by or for them for their future use and oceupation. See Report 
of Commissioner of Indian Affairs, for 1883, p. lil. 
*February 27, 1871. 
4 April 14, 1871. 
5 May 4, 1871. 
*The survey was approved by the commissioners December 11, 1871. 
