that all dispute as to the time of emigration is set at rest. Be- ing already seyered from their homes and their property, their persons being under the absolnte eontrol of tlhe commanding general, and being altogether dependent and humanity of that high offieer for the suspeusion of their transportation to the West at a season and under eircumstances in which sickness and death wcre to be apprchended to au alarming extent, all inducements to prolong their stay in this country are taken away. And however strong their attachment to the homes of their fathers may be, their interests and their wishes are now to depart their safety. on the benevolence early as may be consistent with as

The council thercfore submitted to Gencral Seott several propositions: Ist. That the Cherokee nation will andertake the whole business of reinoving their people to the west of the Mississippi. Their estimates of cost, and arrangement as to time, intervals, et., were wise and reasonable. To their estimate of $65,880 as the eost for every thousand persons transported General Seott objected, thinking it high. He said that he was contident" that it would be fonnd that out of river every thousand there would be "at least five hundred stroug men, women, boys, and girls not only capable of marching twelve or fifteen miles a day, but to whon the exereise would be beneficial; and another hundred able to go on foot half that distance daily." Ile also objected to the estimate of the ration at sixtecen cents as too high.

The council replied that they believed the estimate reason able, "having the comfortable removal of our view, and endeavoring to be governed, as far as that object will allow, by the rates of expenditnrc fixed by the officers of the Government. After the necessary bedding, cooking-utensils, aud other indispensable articles of twenty persons-say, four or five familics-are placed in a wagon, with subsistence for at least two days, the wcight already will be enough to exclude, in our people solely in