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Register, Vol. 6: p: 26, "now begin to produce the most unhappy consequences. Encouraged by the conviction that they could proceed without molestation, the Government of Georgia commenced the execution of what it had only threatened, under the preceding administration. Its pretensions respecting the right of sovereignty and jurisdiction, having been sanctioned by the Federal Government, its course was therefore controlled only by its own ideas of propriety & expediency, and they were unfortunately too much perverted by passion & prejudice to exert any efficient influence over the policy of the state. Shortly after the period designated for the extension of the jurisdiction of that state, over the Cherokee Territory, the writs of the State Courts were issued against residents in the Indian Territory, and the Cherokees were tried before the State tribunals, without any regard being paid to their pleas strikeout: for to the jurisdiction of the court before which they were summoned. In the case of George Tassel, a Cherokee, changed with the murder of another Cherokee upon the Indian territory, an effort was made to procure the decision of the