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though in conformity with their own laws, subjecting them all to indictment therefor, and death by hanging; -- extended the jurisdictions of the Georgia Justices of peace strikeout: over into the Cherokee territory; -- authorized them to enforce their mandates by calling out the militia; -- and, to prevent any exposure of the consequences of this act, declared that no Indian, or descendant of any Indian, residing within the Cherokee nation of Indians, should be deemed a competent witness in any court of the state of Georgia, in which a white person might be a party, except such a white person reside within the Cherokee Nation. The jurisdiction usurped by these strikeout: 3 words acts of encroachment, covered five millions of acres of the Cherokee Land. Within these, were the residences of the principal men of the nation, and the town of New Echota, the place established by the constitution for the regular annual assembly of the National Chiefs and Representatives of the Autumnal Council. "The determination adopted by general Jackson upon his accession to the Presidency' says the American Annual Register