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Later in the season John Ross and others, by virtue of a resolution of the national council, submitted a proposition to General Scott that the remainder of the business of emigration should be confided to the nation, and should take place in the following September and October, after the close of the sickly season, the estimated cost of such removal to be fixed at $65.88 per head. To this proposal assent was given,450 and the last party of Cherokee emigrants began their march for the West on the 4th of December, 1838.451 Scattered through the mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee, however, were many who had fled to avoid removal, and who, nearly a year later, were represented to number 1,046,452 and Mr. James Murray was, in the spring of 1840, appointed453 a commissioner to ascertain and enroll for removal those entitled to the benefits of the treaty of 1835.