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though in conformity with their own laws, subjecting them all to indictment therefore, and death by hanging; - extended the jurisdictions of the Georgia Justices of peace into the Cherokee territory; - authorized them to enforce their mandates by calling out the militia; - and, to prevent any [unclear] of the consequences of this act, declared that no Indian, or descendant of any Indian, [unclear] within the Cherokee nation of Indians, should be deemed a competent witness in any court of the state of Georgia, in which a white person might be a party, except such a white person reside within the Cherokee Nation. The jurisdiction usurped by these acts of encroachmment, covered five millions of acres of the cherokee land. Within there, were the residences of the principal men of the nation, and the town of New Echota, the place established by the constitution for the regular annual assembly of the National Chiefs and Representatives of the Autumnal Council.

"The determination adjusted by general Jackson upon his [unclear] to the Presidency' says the American Annual [unclear]