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Sir, In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 14th of this month I have the honour to enclose the papers marked A, B, C, and D, which embrace all the information relative ... to an exchange of lands with the Cherokee nation of Indians.

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Format:
Book
Government document
Author/Creator:
United States. War Department
Contributor:
United States. Congress. Senate.
United States. Congress 1816-1817)
Founders Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Cherokee Indians--Land tenure.
Cherokee Indians.
Cherokee Indians--Government relations.
Physical Description:
8 pages ; 23 cm
Contained In:
United States. Congress (14th, 2nd session : 1816-1817). [State papers, v.1]
Place of Publication:
[Washington] : [publisher not identified], [1817]
Notes:
Title from 1st words of text.
At head of title: 58, In Senate of the United States, January 17, 1817, read.
Letter addressed to the President of the Senate, signed by the Acting Secretary of War, and dated Department of War, Washington, January 16, 1817.
The enclosures consist of a letter from Thomas Jefferson to the Cherokee deputies dated January 9, 1809, and 3 letters from the Secretary of War to the U.S. commissioners dated 27th May 1816, 12th September 1816, and 17th September 1816.
Cited in:
Shaw & Shoemaker 42498
Greely, A.W. Public documents, p. 791
OCLC:
24409228

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