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The Secretary IF IPur to Gor. Iroup.


DEPARTMENT OF WAR, 9th Nov 1926.


Cir. A long and distressing illness has prevent
cd me from replying to your letter OF the oth
~. Since my partial recovery, have submit
,nd It to the President, by whom am instruct
od IN saw, that you appear TO labor under most
sa,;o,s mistake in supposing that the last treaty
,,;,b the Creeks has effected in any manner the
boundary of Georgia. There is not title in
tbc treaty that has the most distant ailuslon to
that object, nor for one moment would discus
.;op have been admitted thereon, as it lies entire
" ott ofthe competency of the General Govern
mcnt. In anxiously wishing to embrace all their
land within the limits of Georgia, every effort
was male to indnce them to agree to a clause to
that effect, in so MANY words. They promptly
refused, on the ground of their ignorance of the
direction of that line Had the dividing line be-
tween Georgia and Alabama been established, !
think il highly probable that we should have
succeeded in obtaining their REIMBURSEMENT; the
more especially as perceive that, even by the
sine run by the Georgia Commissioners, to which
i i understood unofii cially the Alabama Com
missioners dsscnted, there is less than 200, 900
acres of Indian Lands. 1t is a matter of regret
that any difficulty should have occurred between
Georgia and Alabama, in fixing their dividing
line. as the President had designed, the moment
the dividing line had been established. tqupen
fresh negotiations with the Greeks for the Pur-
nose fprocuring any fragment of land such line
might have left of theirs within the limits of
Georgia. Without entering at all into the ,ner-
its of the controversy between Georgia and Ala
bama YOUR cxcellcncy must at once perceive
that the original difficulty 90 an entire cession
continues to impede our course, and the first in
stant that it shall be removed will be the one
which the Executive will embrace to carry into
effect, by fresh negotiations, if practicable the
entire cession.


have the honor TO be, sir, your obedicnt SER
want. JAMES BARBOUR
His Excellcncy, GEo. NJ. 1nour,


Governor OF Georgia.