forth by General Knox, "that upward of five hundred fami lies are settled on the Cherokee lands," and asks,

1st. Is it the judgment of the Senate that overtures shall be made to the Cherokees to arrange a ncw boundary, so as to embrace the settlements made by the white people since the treaty of Hopewell in November, 1785?

2d. If so, shall compensation to the amount of annu- ally, in gross, be made to the Cherokecs for the or of $ land they shall relinquish, holding the occupiers of tho land accountable to the United States for its value?

3d. Shall the United States stipulate solemnly to guarantee boundary whieh may be arranged?"

The Senate therenpon resolved that the President shonld, at bis discretion, cause the Hopewell treaty to be carried out, or make a new one; but, in caso a new one was made, the "Senate do advise and consent solemnly to gnarantee the the new same,"

Accordingly, in July, 1791, a new treaty the treaty of Holston-was made with the Cherokces, new boundaries estab- lished, and $1000 a year prouised to the tribe for the lands relinquished

By the seventh Article of this treaty the United States "sol- emnly guarantee to the Cherokee nation all their lands not hereby ceded: the eighth Artiele reiterates the old permission that if any citizen of the United States or other person (not Indian) shall settle on the Cherokees' lands, the Cherokees may punish him as they please. Article ninth says that no eitizen or inhabitant of the United States shall hunt or an destroy gamc on the Cherokee lands, or go into the Cherokee country with out a passport from the governor or some other anthorized person.

The next year the Cherokees sent an embassy to Philadchphia to ask for an increase of 8500 in their annuity. One of the chiefs said that he had told Governor Blunt the year before