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Your obt servts
Your obt servts
Mr Carroll
Mr Carroll
[[J.L.?]] Schermerhorn  
J.F. Schermerhorn  
Commissioners.
Commissioners.
n:B. The Commissioners will wait your answer by the bearer, Mr Foreman.  
n:B. The Commissioners will wait your answer by the bearer, Mr Foreman.  

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ground, and the speeches you made them & the advice that was given not to meet the Commissioners here at this time. We wish to know from you in express? terms whether you & some of your Principal men have refused to meet the Commissioners + your Cherokee Brethren here at this time, to endeavour to come to a mutual + satisfactory arrangement for a treaty on the basis of the five millions "awarded" by the Senate to settle the difficulties between the United States & the Cherokee Indians. With great respect Your obt servts Mr Carroll J.F. Schermerhorn Commissioners. n:B. The Commissioners will wait your answer by the bearer, Mr Foreman. To John Ross Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.