is now Indian Territory, with an additional smaller tract
adjoining on the northeast, in what is now Kansas. Improvements
were to be paid for. and the Indians were to lie removed at the expense
of the United States and subsisted at the expense of the Government
for one year after their arrival in the new country. The removal was
to take place within two years from the ratification of the treaty.
On the strong representations of the Cherokee signers, who would
probably not have signed otherwise even then, it was agreed that a
limited number of Cherokee who should desire to remain behind in
North Carolina. Tennessee, and Alabama, and become citizens, having
first been adjudged "qualified or calculated to become useful citizens."'
might so remain, together with a few holding individual reservations
under former treaties. This provision was allowedby the commis-
sioners, hut was afterward struck out on the announcement by Presi-
dent Jackson of his determination "not to allow any preemptions or
reservations, his desire being that the whole Cherokee people should
remove together."
Provision was made also for the payment of debts due by the Indians
out of any moneys coming to them under the treaty: for the reestab-
lishment of the missions in the West; for pensions to Cherokee
wounded in the service of the government in the war of 1812 and the
Creek war; for permission to establish in the new country such military
posts and roads for the use of the United States as should he deemed
necessary; for satisfying Osage claims in the western territory and
iRoyce, Cherokee Nation, op. cit. (R.'ss arrest), p. 281; Drake, Indian- Ross Paj le, Phcenix),
p. 159,