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June 13. continued. become henceforward United as a body politic & to establish a government west of the Mississippi to defsignated the Cherokee Nation: it is therefore record by the Committee and Council of the eastern & western Cherokees in general Council assembled; that three of the chiefs of the eastern & western Cherokees each, viz:rJohn Rop, George Lowry & Edward Gunter on the part of the eastern Cherokees and John Brown, John Lovney and John Rogers, on the part of the western , are authorized & required to associate with themselves three other persons to be selected from their respective Council or Committee, who shall form a select joint Committee for the purpose of revising& draughting a code of law for the government of the Cherokee Nation;& that they are required to lay the same before the General Council of the Nation to be held at the Jakattokah is on , which, when approved, will be immediately submitted to the people for their acceptance. There is a further resolution that the respective laws & authorities ofthe eastern & western Cherokees shall continued to be exercised & enforced among themselves, until repealed & until the new government which may be adopted shall be organized & take effect; and that in all matters "touching?" the public interest of the nation with the Government of the United States, the Chiefs & representatives shall act understandingly & jointly;- and th same rule shall be observed regarding any new laws which may be adopted in Council after this date, affecting the rights, interest & welfare of the people.

June 13. John Ross & George Lowry, Chiefs of the Eastern Cherokees reply to the letter addressed to them on the 11th by John Brown, John Loney & John Rogers. Having been requested to state distinctly in writing what they really wish &'desire, they take pleasure in stating distinctly that they desire to see the eastern & western Cherokees become reunited & again living as one people; and that their wish is that this important object maybe harmoniously accomplished. They add that the representations of the eastern Cherokees have that day had the important subject under consideration & had adopted a set of resolutions in reference to it, based upon the strided rules of equity and justice , which they take pleasure in laying before the western chiefs, with the hope that they also will, as representatives of the western Cherokees, adopt them.