[Footnote 233: These tracts are designated on the accompanying map as Nos. 23 and 24.] [Footnote 234: These tracts are designated on the accompanying map as Nos. 25 and 26.] [Footnote 235: August 1, 1817, the Secretary of War advised the governor of North Carolina that a treaty with the Cherokees had been concluded, by which the Indian claim was relinquished to a tract of country including the whole of the land claimed by them in North Carolina.] [Footnote 236: This memorial bore date of July 2, 1817.] [Footnote 237: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 156.] [Footnote 238: Letter of Secretary of War to Treaty Commissioners August 1, 1817.] [Footnote 239: Letters of Secretary of War to General Jackson and Colonel Meigs, August 9, 1817.] [Footnote 240: Letter of Governor McMinn to Secretary of War, November 29, 1818, and subsequent correspondence during 1819. Governor McMinn's letter of November 29, 1818, states that 718 families had enrolled for emigration since December 20, 1817, and 146 families had taken reservations, which made in all, including those who had already emigrated, about one-half of the Cherokee Nation as committed to the support of the policy involved in the treaty of 1817. February 17, 1819, a Cherokee delegation advised the Secretary of War that, while Governor McMinn's enrollment showed the number of Cherokees who had removed or enrolled to go prior to November 15, 1818, to be 5,291, by their calculation the number did not exceed 3,500, and that they estimated the number of Cherokees remaining east of the Mississippi at about 12,544.] [Footnote 241: The instructions of the Amoha council to the delegation of six bear date of Fortville, Cherokee Nation, September 19, 1817.] TREATY CONCLUDED FEBRUARY 27, 1819; PROCLAIMED MARCH 10, 1819.[242] _Held at Washington City, D. C., between John C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, specially authorized therefor by the President of the United States, and the chiefs and headmen of the Cherokee Nation of Indians._ MATERIAL PROVISIONS.