[Footnote 426: Senate confidential document, April 12, 1836, p. 200.] [Footnote 427: National Intelligencer, May 22, 1838.] [Footnote 428: National Intelligencer, May 22, 1838.] [Footnote 429: June 3, 1837.] [Footnote 430: July 15, 1837.] [Footnote 431: September 25, 1837.] [Footnote 432: September 30, 1836.] [Footnote 433: October 25, 1836.] [Footnote 434: Secretary of War to Andrew Jackson, August 21, 1837.] [Footnote 435: October 16, 1837.] [Footnote 436: The amounts adjudicated and paid by this commission, as shown by the records of the Indian Office (see Commissioner of Indian Affairs' letter of March 7, 1844), were as follows: 1. For improvements $1,683,192 77-1/2 2. Spoliations 416,306 82-1/2 3. National debts due to Cherokees 19,058 14 4. National debts due to citizens of the United States 51,642 87 5. Reservations 159,324 87 _________________ Total 2,329,524 86 (The figures as given here are correctly copied from the commissioner's letter, but there is an obvious error either in the footing or in the items.)] [Footnote 437: January 3, 1837.] [Footnote 438: December 1, 1836.] [Footnote 439: This census showed a distribution of the Cherokee population, according to State boundaries, as follows: +-----------------+----------+-------+--------------------+ | | | |Whites intermarried | | States. |Cherokees.|Slaves.| with | | | | | Cherokees. | +-----------------+----------+-------+--------------------+ |In Georgia | 8,946| 776| 68| |In North Carolina| 3,644| 37| 22| |In Tennessee | 2,528| 480| 79| |In Alabama | 1,424| 299| 32| | +----------+-------+--------------------+ | Total | 16,542| 1,592| 201| +-----------------+----------+-------+--------------------+ ] [Footnote 440: Secretary of War to Col. William Lindsay, May 8, 1837.] [Footnote 441: March 26, 1838.] [Footnote 442: Speech in reply to Mr. Halsey, of Georgia, January 2, 1838.] [Footnote 443: May 22, 1838.] [Footnote 444: National Intelligencer, June 8, 1838.] [Footnote 445: Secretary of War to James K. Polk, Speaker of the House of Representatives, January 8, 1838.] [Footnote 446: General Macomb to General Scott, April 6, 1838.] [Footnote 447: May 10, 1838.] [Footnote 448: May 18, 1838.] [Footnote 449: Annual report of Commissioner of Indian Affairs, November 25, 1838.] [Footnote 450: Proposal was accepted July 25; emigration to begin September 1 and end before October 20, 1838.]