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                                                                        Head Quarters, Army E.T, & C. N. Fort Cass
                                                                                                                 November 3, 1836
                                                                            General Order
                                                                                 No. 74

    I am instructed by the President of the United States through the War Department to make known to Mr. John Ross, and all others whom it may concern, that it is his determination to have the late Treaty entered into between the United States & the Cherokee People, and notified by the Senate, the 25th of May, 1836 "religiously fulfilled in all its parts, terms and conditions, within the period presented," and that "no delegation which may be sent" to Washington "with a view to obtain new terms, or a modification of those of the existing treaty will be received or recognized, nor will any intercourse he had with them, directly or individually, orally or in writing" and that the President regards the proceedings of Mr. Ross and his associates in the late Council held at Red Clay, "as in direct intravention of the plighted faith of their people, and a repetition of them will be considered as indicative of a design to prevent the execution of the Treaty, even at the hazard of actual hostilities, and they will be promptly repressed." 
    It is further made known by instructions from the War Department, that of any if our citizens enter the Cherokee country and incite opposition to the execution of the treaty, they will be proceeded against according to the law of the State, if any exist on the subject, in which they may enter, and of these should be "no law of the State which can be brought to bear on them, and under which they may be removed," "it is the opinion of the President" as expressed through the War Department "that they may be removed" out of the country under the 6th article of the treaty," in which the United States guarantee

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