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1839 Oct 8. continued observe, that an official communui-cation was made by Mess John Ross, and others, on the 21st of June, 1839, to M. Stokes, Esqr, the Cherokee Agent, of which there is a copy on file in that office, requesting "through his official authority, that no disburse-ments of monies due to those whom they represent, not any other busi-ness of a public character affecting their rights, be made or transacted by the agent of the government with any other Cherokee authority than them, until a re-union of the people should be effected'; and that the form of an address by the opposite party to the Secretary of War, was adopted on the 20th of August, a copy of which was enclosed in the Superintendant's letter of the 10th of September, and which contain the follow-ing; " They ask that the money due to the Cherokee people under the treaty be not paid to a party who acknowledge not its sanction, des-troy its farmers, and yet, with their characteristic capacity, seek to appropriate its benefits to accom-plish the ambitions purposes of their leader". - The Commissioner re-marks, in regard of the appeal of Mess . Brown, Looney, and Rogers, in which they ask to be sustained "in the enjoyment of their rights, and in the execution of their laws, and that the lives and liberties of all their citizens