[Footnote 451: The number, according to the rolls of John Ross, who removed under his direction, was 13,149. According to the rolls of Captain Stevenson, the agent who received them on their arrival West, there were only 11,504, and, according to Captain Page, the disbursing officer, there were 11,721. Mr. Ross received on his settlement with Captain Page subsequent to the removal, $486,939.50-1/4, which made a total payment to Ross by the Government on account of Cherokee removals of $1,263,338.38. (Letter of Commissioner Indian Affairs, June 15, 1842). See, also, Commissioner of Indian Affairs to Commissioner of Land Office, January 9, 1839.] [Footnote 452: Commissioner of Indian Affairs to Secretary of War, September 12, 1839.] [Footnote 453: April 21, 1840.] [Footnote 454: Report of Commissioner of Indian Affairs for 1839.] [Footnote 455: Letter of John Ross to General Arbuckle, June 24, 1839.] [Footnote 456: June 22, 1839.] [Footnote 457: Agent Stokes to Secretary of War, June 24, 1839.] [Footnote 458: July 5, 1839.] [Footnote 459: August 9, 1839.] [Footnote 460: August 27, 1839.] [Footnote 461: August 23, 1839.] [Footnote 462: July 7, 1839.] [Footnote 463: July 10, 1839.] [Footnote 464: August 21, 1839.] [Footnote 465: September 4, 1839, _et seq._] [Footnote 466: November 9, 1839.] [Footnote 467: January 22, 1840.] [Footnote 468: April 21, 1840.] [Footnote 469: Coody, in an interview with the Secretary of War, persisted in considering the murders of Boudinot and the Ridges as justifiable. General Arbuckle's letter of notification bore date April 21, 1840.] [Footnote 470: Commissioner of Indian Affairs to Maj. William Armstrong, August 26, 1840.] [Footnote 471: September 22, 1841.] [Footnote 472: March 4, 1842.] [Footnote 473: September 9, 1842.] [Footnote 474: November 8, 1842.] TREATY CONCLUDED AUGUST 6, 1846; PROCLAIMED AUGUST 17, 1846.[475] _Held at Washington, D. C., between Edmund Burke, William Armstrong, and Albion K. Parris, commissioners on behalf of the United States, and delegates representing each of the three factions of the Cherokee Nation, known, respectively, as the "Government party," the "Treaty party," and the "Old Settler party."_ MATERIAL PROVISIONS. The preamble recites the difficulties that have long existed between the different factions of the nation, and because of the desire to heal those differences and to adjust certain claims against the United States growing out of the treaty of 1835 this treaty is concluded, and provides: 1. The lands now occupied by the Cherokee Nation shall be secured to the whole Cherokee people for their common use and benefit. The United States will issue a patent therefor to include the 800,000-acre tract and the western outlet. If the Cherokees become extinct or abandon the land it shall revert to the United States.