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broken by Georgia, in consequence of a change, which was decided that very month in the General Government. Mr Adams lost his election and was to retire from the Presidency in the following March, 1829. To his place, was to succeed Andrew Jackson. It was understood that the new government was to adapt a new policy towards the Indians; that they were to be strikeout: " regarded "as subject strikeout: of to the state within whose limits they were;x and that+ "the Indian intercourse act was not to be enforced, whenever its provisions should bring the Government of the United States into collision with the state authorities." The final assembly of the Georgia Legislature after Gen: Jackson's entrance into office, was in December 1829. On the 19th of December, that year, a still severer act than the one above quoted, was passed by Georgia. By this, the abolished all the Cherokee laws and ordinances over the Cherokee people; made it murder in the executive, ministerial, or judicial officers to inflict sentence of death, though x Am. An. Rep. vol 6. p. 31. + & p: 26