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To the Hon: Lewis Cass Secretary of War

Washington City March 6th. 1835

Sir Your letter of this date is received and we regret that you did not submit for our information the whole proceedings of the Senate in relation to the propositions which we had the honor of presenting for the consideration of the President, and which, upon placing into your hands our letter of the 28th ulto?, we were distinctly informed by you would be cheerfully submitted. - To a full and clear understanding of the entire action of the Senate on our case, we claim it as a matter of justice to our nation that the same should be laid before us. We must therefore respectfully ask the favor of your to have a full transcript of the same made out & sent to us. We would also beg leave to enquire whether we are to understand from your communication of this date, that the five millions of dollars resolved by the Senate "should be paid to the Cherokee Indians for all their land & possessions East of the Mississippi River" as embracing also the expences for transportation & subsistence in removal and for subsistence for twelve months after their arrival at their new homes, - for blankets, guns, etc?; - as, whether that sum is an offer, as it really appears from the resolution to be, only for the extinguishment of the Cherokee Title to Lands East of the Mississippi River, and for the houses & improvements of the Cherokee inhabitants situated thereon; - and that the United States will, in addition, pay for the expense of transportation and subsistence in their removal etc etc the same as has been provided for under the general plan for Cherokee removals, adopted from the provisions of the treaty of the 6th fay of May 1828 between the United States and