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nation; and are at present most hostile to the proposed treaty. In this view of the subject, Jack, what might have they and their decendant in the present Cherokee Country eat? Or to exercise power and authority have? Certainly none. By their own voluntary act they have excluded themselves; and they have no reason to expect that the United States will pay them twice for their rights to these lands; unclear permit them any longer to meddle with this matter, if they continue to perserve in the course they have adopted. We shall next turn our attention to the Reservees who desired to become Citizens of the United States, under the Treat of 1817. "Article 8th. And each and every head of an Indian family residing on the East side of the Mississippi river, on the lands that are now, or may hereafter be, surrended to the United States, who may with to become citizens of the United States,-the United States so agree to give a reservation of 640 acresof land, in a square, to include their improvements, which are to be as near the center thereof as practical, in which they will have a life estate, with a reversion in fee simple to their children, reserving to the widow her dower; the register of whose names is to be filled in the office of the Cherokee Agent, which is to be kept open until the census is taken, as stipulated in the 3rd article of this Treaty; provided that if any of the heads of families, for whom reservations may be made, should upon therefrom, then, in that case, the right to resent to the United States: and, Provided further, that the land which may be reserved under this article, be deducted from the amount which has been ceded under the first and second articles of this Treaty." By this article provision is made to give a life estate to every head of a Cherokee family who wishes to take a reservation of 640 acres, with a reversion in fee simple to their children. All that was necessary to perfect and secure it, was to register the name in the office of the agent, anytime previous to the finishing taking the census. When this treaty was concluded there was a great probability that a majority of the nation would be in favor of removal to Arkansas, or to take reservations and become citizens of the United States. Before the contemplated census was taken, the Cherokees proposed to adjust all the unfinished matters under this treaty by making some additional arrangements of alternations and therefore they concluded the Treaty of Feb: 27. 1819, which declares that this Treaty in a final adjustment of that of the 8th July 1817. This Treaty also provides Reservations for such Cherokees as chose to become citizens of the United States. "Article