ion by the treaty concluded at Washington, and
ratified on the part of the United States on the 22d of April last.

The complaint set forth in this letter that surveyors from Georgia have
been employed in surveying lands within the Indian Territory, as secured
by that treaty, is authenticated by the information inofficially
received from other quarters, and there is reason to believe that one or
more of the surveyors have been arrested in their progress by the
Indians. Their forbearance, and reliance upon the good faith of the
United States, will, it is hoped, avert scenes of violence and blood
which there is otherwise too much cause to apprehend will result from
these proceedings.

By the fifth section of the act of Congress of the 30th of March, 1802,
to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes and to preserve
peace on the frontiers, it is provided that if any citizen of or other
person resident in the United States shall make a settlement on any
lands belonging or secured or granted by treaty with the United States
to any Indian tribe, or shall survey, or attempt to survey, such lands,
or designate any of the boundaries by marking trees or otherwise, such
offender shall forfeit a sum not exceeding $1,000 and suffer
imprisonment not exceeding twelve months.

By the sixteenth and seventeenth sections of the same statute two
distinct processes are prescribed, by either or both of which the above
enactment may be carried into execution. By the first it is declared to
be lawful for the military force of the United States to apprehend every
person found in the Indian country over and beyond the boundary line
between the United States and the Indian tribes in violation of any of
the provisions or regulations of the act, and immediately to convey
them, in the nearest convenient and safe route, to the civil authority
of the United States in some of the three next adjoining States or
districts, to be proceeded against in due course of law.

By the second it is directed that if any person charged with the
violation of any of the provisions or regulations of the act shall be
found within any of the United States or either of their territorial
districts such offender may be there apprehended and brought to trial in
the same manner as if such crime or offense had been committed within
such State or district; and that it shall be the duty of the military
force of the United States, when called upon by the civil magi