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1839 July 12. continued. for the protection of each individual in the enjoyment of all his rights: - they, therefore, the people composing the eastern & western Cherokee nation, in National convention assembled, by virtue of their original & inalienable rights, thereby solemnly & mutually agree to form themselves inti one body politic, under the style & title of the Cherokee Nation : - had in view of the union thus formed & for the purpose of satisfactorily adjusting all unsettled business which may have arisen prior to its consummation, they agree to sub-mit such settlement to the provisions of the respective laws under which they originated & which shall according-ly "not clear" the Cherokee courts in their decisions. And the delegation authori-zed by the eastern Cherokees to arrange with General Scott for their removal to the West, also shall continue with their present "not clear" in charge of that business, until it shall finally closed. And all rights and title to public Cherokee lands on the east or west of he river Mississippi, with all the public interests which may have vested in either branch of the Cherokee family, whether inherited from their fathers, or derived from any other source, shall thenceforward vest en-tire & unimpaired in the Cherokee nation as constituted by this union. Rep: Doc: No 2: 26th Cong: 1st sess: p : 359

July 12. John Ross, and the various officers & select committees of the Eastern & Western Cherokees in National Convention at Illinois Camp Ground, write to Gen: Arbuckle at Fort Gibson. - They clean it proper to report further for the General's information, the proceedings of the National Convention in refe-rence to the late excitement: They state that the convention, in order effectually to stop the further effusion of blood, has, by decree, buried all past offences in oblivion, on the sole condition of the parties giving assurance to maintain the peace in future. They