slightly in excess of 167,405
Maryland 17,068
Total, slightly in excess of 46, 415,612
Autiiorities: Becker, Gold Fields of the Southern Appalachians, in the Sixteenth
Annual Report United States Geological Survey. 1895; Day, Mineral Resources of
the United States, Seventeenth Annual Report United States Geological Survey,
part ■".. 1896; Nitze, Gold Mining and Metallurgy in the Southern States, in North
Carolina Geological Survey Report, republished in Mineral Resources of the t nited
states, Twentieth Annual Report United states Geological Survey, part 6, 1899;
Lanman, Letters from the Alleghany Mountains, 1849.
(42) Extension of Georgia laws, L830(p.ll7): "It is hereby ordained that all
the laws of Georgia are extended over the Cherokee cQuntry; that after the first day of
June, 1830, all Indians then and at that time residing in said territory, shall be liable
and subject to such laws and regulationsed. 1880; Royce, Cherokee Nation of Indians, in
Fifth Ann. Rep. Bureau of Ethnology, p. 260, 1888.
13 Removal ports, 1838 (p.130): For collecting the Cherokee preparatory to
the Removal, the follow ing stockade forts were built: In North Carolina. Fort Lind-
say, on the south side of the Tennessee river at the junction of Nantahala. in Swain
county: Fort Scott. at Aquone, farther up Nantahala river, in Macon county; Fort
Montgomery, at Robbinsville, in Graham county; Fort Hembrie, at Hayesville, in
Clay county: Fort Delaney, at Yalleytown, in Cherokee county; Fort Butler, at
Murphy, in tin- same county. In Georgia, Fort Scudder, on Frogtown creek, north
of Dahlonega, in Lumpkin county; Fort Gilmer, near Ellijay, in Gilmer county;
Fort Coosawatee, in Murray county; Fort Talking-rock, near Jasper, in Pickens
county; Fort Buffington, near Canton, in Cherokee county. In