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293 he will not receive another delegation at Washington on this subject. Should there be any important points of difference between the Cherokees & Commissioners, in regard to the award of the Senate, they can be included in a seperate & conditional article, by which they will again be brought before the President & Senate, for their final determination. The Commissioner has only to add, that, if a settlement of the Cherokee difficulties is not effected at this present council, that then the Commissioners will call another council, at such time and place as they think best; and submit the propositions for a Treaty, already explained to the people at the Council at Running Waters in July last; and should there be rejected, the President of the United States will offer them no other terms during his administration. The Commissioners, therefore, wish to know distinctly whether the people of the Cherokee Nation at this General Council, will enter into negotiations for a Treaty, on the basis of the $5,000,000, awarded by the Senate; and which your delegation duly authorized, with a full power of attorney, agreed for themselves to accept; and urge upon their people to close their difficulties with the United States by a Treaty; on whether they are determined to do nothing on the subject. With respect Your obedient servant J. F. Schermerhorn Commissioner to treat with the Cherokee East