DEPARTMENT OF WAR.

 22d .AngftSf I929

To His Exc'y. GEORGE JzArps 2 ''s'' i9S
' &tt'. A4'AS J E0tNHE ALAkus

 Lihle Rock, .4. T.

 ssfR--i have the honor to refer you to a ietter from this Department, e.s :,--tss Ii May,* on the subject of removing such ci- tizens as may be found, after running the Western line of the Territory, to be upon the Indian lands, to the Eastern side ofthe line, in pursuance of the condition, as expressed in the 3d article of the Treaty with the Cherokees ofArkansas. and to add that the President, desirous of extending to those settlers all the indulgence which may be consistent with the obligation inn posed by the Treaty, requests that you will cause notice to be given to them. that they will be allowed ninety days from the time when notice may De published that the line has been run, and which notice you will cause to be published or otherwise com munieated to all concerned, immediately after the running of the said line, You will moreover, cause those settlers to he informed, that to none, who shall not re. move within thestipulated period of ninety days, will the pre-emption righthe extend. ed as provided by act of Congress If 24tl May. and that it will be necessary for tls CT. to register their names with the fndiar Agent, as the persons who have been, E, the provision of the Treaty, obliged to re move.