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The Committees of Conference on the Subject of uniting the parties of the Nation into one, to harmonize and associate together as one people, in any treaty which my take place between the United States and the Cherokee Nation, in order to relieve the last from its distressed and afflicted condition, have agreed, - that is Template:Unclear,- Major George M. Waters, Judge John Martin, Richard Taylor, John Baldridge and John Benge, acting under the instructions of John Rofs, Principal Chief, on the one part, and George Chambers, John Gunter, John Ridge, Charles Vaun, and Elias Boudinot, on the other, acting under the instructions of Major Ridge, and others, of the Treaty party have agreed too. Bury in oblivion all unfriendly feelings and act unitedly in any Treaty arrangement with the United States for the relief of their nation;- That, the number of Delegates to be chosen by the General Council and people here present, shall consist of Nineteen Members, to act for the Nation with full powers: That, of this number there shall be three chosen of the Treaty Party, and nominated and appointed in the same way as the others;- the authority of each and every member of the delegation to be joint and equal,- to be confirmed by the people hence present. This agreement, then, and in that case only, to be binding at once upon the parties. The Cherokee Press in the property to the Nation, - (and as we have become friends no more publications shall be made either against one or the other of the parties, because they are now united,)-__ and should be surrendered to the proper authorities