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Copy Adjourned Term 1834. Georgia Cass County Personally appeared in open court William H. Underwood, who being sworn, saith he has seen B.F. Curry? agent for enrolling the Cherokee Indians, in a high state of intoxication, as he conceived, and that he has understood from persons in whom he confides that it is an occurrence of frequency with him. Signed William H. Underwood * Sworn to in open court this 2nd day of April 1834. Chester Hawks, Clk. {*Formerly leader? of the Georgia Circuit Court: now a practitioner at the bar, Gainesville. Copy. Being called upon by John Walker Jr, agreeable to an order from the War Department, to state what I know in relation to Major Curry, enrolling Agent, gives it as follows: Sometime in January last, Major B.F.Curry came to my house in the Cherokee Nation, in Lone Savannah Town, and called on me to go about with him through the village to aid him in enrolling. As I was well acquainted with all the natives in that settlement, I went with him to their different residences & we got off about six miles, to one Bullard's who kept handy for sale, where there were several Cherokees. Curry treated the company, and commenced drinking himself & got very drunk & then mounted his horse & started off? yelling, and got off about a mile & fell off of his horse, and I, then with the assistance of some Cherokees, took him upon his horse & mounted the horse behind him, & rode & carried him on before me, on to my house, a distance of five miles, and Robbin Fields led the horse by the bridle, and he remained speechless until about midnight. I had to rest on the way & took him into an Indian house and lay him down until I was able to proceed with him again, and he remained at my house several days until he became able to stand? The Major lost his saddle bags and all his papers when he fell off his horse. They were picked up by some of the Indians & taken care of & sent on to my house by Wm.? Robbinson. Walker wishes me to state what he told me in relation to the last act of the Legislature of Georgia, in relation to the Cherokees. Major Curry stated to me that he had recommended the passages of the law affecting the most leading men in the country, in confining them to one quarter section of land, and where a man had two wives, and one could be induced to enroll, that all the improvements should be valued to her, and that she would be protected in the removal of all negro slaves on the farm on which she lived, or she should have? the