HEADoUARrERs, EASTERN DIVISION.
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Cherokee Agency, July 25, 1898.


GENTLEMEN have received your letter SUBJ
mitting certain proposals, dated the 23d instant


On tho part Of the United States, | am ready
to place the whole business of completing the EN-.
igrlton of the Cherokee people, remaining east
OF the Mississippi. with exceptions to be men,
tioned,) to their now homes west of that river, in
the hands of such functionaries of the eastern
Cherokees as may exhibit to me, from the same,
duo authority to undertake and carry through the
emigration, on the following conditions


l. That the said functonaries and their people
shall continue to observe and execute, in good
faith, the promises given TO me in writing by cer-
tam chiefs and headmen, for themselves and peo-
pie, present and absent, on the 10Th ultimo.


2. That the said functionaries shall send intel
ligont Indian runners, to be furnished with writ.
ten permission, signed by the commanding gener-
al, in search of. and to cause to be brought into
the emigration, all Indian families and individuals
who may remain out, and who are not citizens Of
the United States, or who have not received per-
mission to remain in the States for the purpose of
becoming denzens of the same.


3. Tha: with the exception Of such Indians as
are, or who may have obtained permission 10 re-
main in order to become citiZens, or deniZens of
tho United States, or Of tho States, also with the
exception of such Indian families and individuals
as may be permitted by the commanding general
to emigrate themselves, the said Cherokee func-
tonaries shall cause all their people now remain
ing east, and who may at the time be abeto trav-
ell, including fugitive Creeks among them, to be
put in notion in convenient detachments. either
by land or water, and transported, without unne-
cessary delays the routes, to the Cherokee
country west of the Mississippi (; beginning the
movement as early as the LIST of September next,
and continuing to send off parties at intervals not
exceeding three days. SO that all the emigrants
able to travel within that time shall be in motion
for the West by the y day Of the ensuing month
! (October.)