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duty was served on the Governor of the State of Georgia, with the view of testing the validity of her claims, & of procuring an injunction to restrain her from pursuing a course so inconsistent with the rights of the Cherokee Tribe, as secured by treaty. "Of these proceedings no notice was taken by the State Government, except the adoption of a resolution to set at defiance the authority of the Court. "The Court, however, proceeded to hear the cause, and after a full argument in behalf of the Cherokee tribe, by Mssrs Wirt & Sergeant, it determined, at the January term of 1831, that in that form it had not jurisdiction of the subject matter in dispute. "The Supreme Court had jurisdiction between two States of the confederacy, and also between a foreign State and one of the States of the Union. The Cherokee Tribe, however, was neither a foreign state, nor a member of the Confederacy; but a domestic dependent nation in a state of pupillage, and in a relation to the United States, resembling that of a