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Gentlemen, In your letter of the 28th ultimo you stated your readiness to accept for yourselves and to recommend to the Cherokee people to accept such a sum for their claims East of the Mississippi river, as the Senate of the United States might deem just. The Senate have, by a resolution, stated as their opinion, that 'a sum not exceeding five millions of dollars should be paid to the Cherokee Indians for all their lands and professions(?) East of the Mississippi river'. The President wishes now, as he has always done heretofore, to treat with yyou in a spirit of candor as well as liberality. He has, therefore, directed me to communicate to you, at once, the resolution of the Senate, and to state his willingness to enter into a negotiation with you, for the cession(?) of all your claims, East of the Mississippi, upon condition