No. 8.

Cherokee Agency East, July 81, 1888.
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Cherokee Agency East, July 81, 1888.
Sir: Your letter addressed to the undersigned
ON the 18th instant has been considered by tho
council and people assembled. The ACCOMPANY.
ing resolution confers the authority upon tho late
delegation to Washington city to close with YOU
the necessary arrangements for the entire removal
and subsistence of the Cherokees. We are now
prepared to discharge the duties devolving Upon
| us IN relation 10 this matter.


10 the conditions mentioned in your letter, up
on which you are willing to place the whole bu-
siness OF managing the emigration in our hands,
we are not disposed 10 object, but are ready and
willing to accede to them, with, however, this
further understanding: thar we may be allowed
the two en.;re months Of September and October
to get all our people in motion for the West, and
that we shall not be required, positively, to send
OIL detachment at intervals not exceeding three
days" In the commencement, the weather will
be very warm, and before the arrival west of the
last parties the winter will have commenced its
rigor; and we would prefer some discretion as to
the tlmo and arrangement in despatching detach-
ments, especially tho time for the moving Of
the last will be fixed. ~
We have the honor to be, sir, most respectfully
your obedient Servants,


JOHN ROSS,


EDWARD GUNTER,


JAMES BROWN,


EL!JAn HICKS.


SAML. GUNTER,


In bshe,lf of others.
Maj. Gen. WINFIELD ScoTr.


RESOLVED By the committee and council and peo-
pie in general council concerned, That Messrs John
Ross, Richard Taylor, Samuel Gunter, Edward
Gunter. James Brown, Elijah Hicks, Situwakee,
and White Path, be, and they are hereby, author
lied and fully empowered, on the part of tho
Cherokee nation, to make aud enter into any and
all such arrangements with Major General Win
held Scott, on the part of the United States, which
they may deem necessary and proper for effect
ing tho entire removal of the Cherokee people
from the east to the west side of the Mississippi
river and also to enter into such further arrange
ments with the commanding general in relation
10 the payment of such sums of money by the
United States as may be needed for the removal
and subsistence of all the Cherokee people.
And they are hereby further authorized and
empowered TO make any such selection Of persons
as they may deem necessary to aid and assist in
the said removal of the Cherokeos to the Western
country. -