"A letter addressed to Agent Chollar by a committee appointed at a council of freedmen, which letter, dated Pickens County, Cherokee Nation, December 8, 1866, sets forth that the unfriendly and bitter feeling held by the Indians toward the freedmen renders them anxious to remove to any land designated by the Government, but that they—the negroes—would prefer a location on Cash Creek, one hundred miles southwest of Fort Arbuckle, on the leased lands; that the Chickasaws are willing to give up their Proportion of the $300,000 provided by the third article of the treaty, to be held in trust for them; asking that the Government provide transportation for themselves and their families, and necessary supplies, to enable them to start on their new location; expressing their desire to remove at the earliest day possible, and estimating their number at 1,500. This letter is accompanied by a list containing 292 signatures."