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Cherokee Nation Executive Department. Nov 19 1830

To me from? Richard Taylor John Ridge & Wm S. Coodey Gentlemen, By the authority of the General Council & with the advice and conent of the Committee, you have been nominated & appointed as Delegates to attend to the business of this nation at the seat of the General Government during the session of the approaching Congress. Upon your arrival at Washington City you will therefore, as customary, report yourselves thru? the war department to the President, and request an interview with him as soon as circumstances will permit. The boundary line between this & the Creek Nation bordering in Carrol County Ga which the President has assumed to alter; - the intruders who are permitted, thro’ the war department, to occupy the improvements abandoned by the emigrants; - the extraordinary order prohibiting our citizens from working the gold mines within our territorial limits; and the one directing the distribution of the annuity stipend due to this nation by the United States; also, the manifestations exhibited in the part of Georgia to take forcible possession of our Gold Mines, and to Survey our land, are subjects which you will introduce before the President for his immediate re-consideration. And should you find him to be disproved to hear our complaints upon these subjects without effect, but determined to adhere? to his former decisions, you will without loss of time, lay a memorial before both Houses of Congress praying for protection & relief. If you can succeed with members of Congress in the passage of the appropriation bill to direct our annuities to be paid as heretofore to the Treasury of the Cherokee Nation in accordance with the meaning & intention of the Treaties, perhaps the President would feel himself bound to recall his late instructions upon this subject. You will take great care to observe & pursue a course in the management of the business committed to your care, that nothing be done or said, which prudence and propriety will not sanction. unclear has nothing to do with political partyism; - all that we ask for; is even handed justice & a faithful compliance on the part of the United States to protect us in all there rights which hav been solemnly guaranteed to our nation in their Treaties - And to stay the hand of oppressive injustice & violence. - This? as hav a right to expect and even to demand in respectful terms, of the United States. J