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We propose, therefore, to meet the proposition of the President for an arrangement on the basis of a gross sum being paid to our nation, for its title to all the lands lying within the charter limits of Georgia, North Carolina, Tenessee & Alabama, leaving to the nation all the arrangements for indemnifying the individual rights of its own citizens, for their removal & ultimate residence,- on the following terms as the general basis,- to wit:

That the United States will stipulate to pay the Cherokee Nation East of the Mississippi, for a cession of its Territory, the gross sum of Twenty Millions of dollars; and forthwith to remove all the white settlers from that part of the Territory lying within the charter limits of North Carolina, Tenessee & Alabama; - and to protect the Cherokee from the operation of the State Laws & the exercise of jurisdiction over them upon the Cherokee Territory for five years, unless the Cherokee shall find it convenient and will remove voluntarily previous to that time : and to prevent the Cherokee citizens from being turned off from their possessions & improvements within the limits of Georgia during said term of years,- and to cause such as has been dispossessed under the laws of Georgia to be restored forthwith to possession.

That the United States shall pay the Cherokees for all losses sustained by them from the acts of the adjoining states & their citizens, in violation of the laws of the United States & Treaties subsisting with the Cherokeen Nation;- and an indemnity of all just claims arising out of the treaties of 1817 & 1819 for referations? of land of which they have been deprived contrary to the provisions of the contract stipulated with and secured by the treaty of 1819 to the Unicoy Turnpike Company: - and also secure to the Cherokee Nation such annuities and school funds as have been stipulated and provided for in former treaties by investment of the same in some profitable stock to the credit & interest of the nation.

In submitting these general outlines as the basis upon which we propose to conclude a final arrangement with this government for the relief of the Cherokee people, we would wish the President distinctly to understand that we do it solely from our sincere desire to extricate our distressed people from the lamentable situation in which they are