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of the Federal Government, -- having been employed to disperse among the Cherokees, the portion of the appropriation annually made to civilize the Indians, to which that tribe was entitled. "This decision so far as it discharged the Missionaries, gave great offence to the State authorities, and the Governor obtained from the General Government, a disavowal that the missionaries were its agents. Orders were also given to withdraw from Mr. Worchester his appointment as Postmaster at New Echota. "These preliminary steps having taken, the missionaries were warned by Governor Gilmer, to quit the nation, & within ten days afterwards, Mr. Worchester & Dr Elizar Butler, were arrested and again arraigned before the Superior Court of Gwinnett County, and the facts being proved, they were sentenced to four years confinement at hard labour, in the penitentiary of Georgia, for continuing to reside in the Cherokee Country, where they had been invited to go by the policy of the strikeout Federal Government, and for having refused to take the oath of allegiance to the state of Georgia.