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any subject before the Convention, by filling the chair with any member he may deem proper to select.

Echota 5th July 1827 A McCoy, Secry John Ross P to Convention Convention

Resolved by the National Committee & Council that a person be appointed whose duty it shall be to edit a weekly newspaper at New Echota to be styled the Cherokee Phoenix. And also to translate matter in the Cherokee Language for the columns of said paper as well as for the translation of all public documents which may be submitte for publication, and that the sum of Three Hundred Dollars per annum be allowed to Said Edition & Translator for his services. New Echota Elijah Hicks, Pres Ne Com 18.Oct.1927 concurred A McCoy clk Major Ridge Ne Comm Speaker of Council

                       approved

E Boudinott unclear Hicks, 1st P. C. Clk Ne Council John Ross, 2d P. C.

Resolved by the National Committee & Council that unclear H. Harris be and is hereby appointed principal printer for the Cherokee Nation, and that his salary shall be Four Hundred Dollars a year, and that his duty shall be to attend to the printing of a paper to be printed at New Echota, and it shall be further the duty of said Harris to employ and he is hereby authorized to employ a journeyman printer of sober, steady, habits, in behalf of the Cherokee Nation, in order that the aforesaid paper may be sucessfully carried into effect; and Be it Further Resolved that