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Excerpt from Court of Claims: The Cherokee Nation V. The United States, No. 23199; The Eastern Cherokees V. The United States, No. 23214; The Eastern and Emigrant Cherokees V. The United States, No. 23212, Consolidated The act of March 3, 1903, entitled An act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, and for other purposes (32 Stats, contains the following provisions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Court of Claims (Decided March 20, 1905): No; 23199, the Cherokee Nation V. The United States; No; 23214, the Eastern Cherokees V. The United States; No; 23212, the Eastern and Emigrant Cherokees V. The United States And in that remarkable petition submitted to Congress, bearing date February 22, 1838, signed by of the Cherokee people, the whole nation reiterated, We do solemnly and earnestly protest against that spurious instrument. But while the Cherokee people always maintained that the treaty of New Echota was falsely executed in their name by a few unauthorized, unofficial persons, corruptly suborned by an agent of the United States, they nevertheless were compelled by the condition of affairs in the Cherokee country and by the overwhelming power of the United States to, in a measure, adopt it through the instrumentality of the Cherokee treaty of 1816 (9 Stat. L., p. Of it this court has said. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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