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judges , or the supreme court, shall suffer death, and any of the circuit judges aforesaid, are authorized to call a court for the trial of any such person or persons so transgressing. Be it further resolved that any person or persons who shall violate the provisions of this act, and shall refuse by resistance, to appear at the place designated for tryal, or abscond are hereby declared to be out laws, and any person or persons, citizens of this nation may kill him or them, so offending, in any manner most convenient, within the limits of this nation, and shall not be held accountable to the laws for the same.

    Be it further resolved, that if any citizen or citizens of this nation shall enter into a treaty with the United States government for any object whatever other than a unknown of land, he or they upon consideration, shall be punished with one hundred lashes on the bare back and no treaty shall be binding upon this nation which shall not have been notified by the general council, and certified -lined out approved by the principal chief of the nation,
    "New Ehota, October 26th 1829,
        Approved, 27th October 1829"
                         Signed John Ross, etc.

It is said that John Ridge wrote the preamble, and out lines of the above law, and that