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As to any complaints having been hereto unclear made to the government that the annuity was not equally divided between the Eastern and Western Cherokees, I am altogether unaware of that fact. However, be it as it may, the treaty of 1819, especially settle that question in regard to the division of the annuity; and points out the mode by which it would have been made, in case that the division had been objected to be those west: - and it is to be hoped that no departure will be made by the government from the stipulations of the treaty arrangement upon this subject. I have the honor to be Gentlemen Very respectfully Your unclear J. Ross: unclear unclear Cherokee Nation.

To His Excellency unclear Carroll and The Rev J. F. Schermerhorn U.S. Commissioners unclear Callhoun, Jenn??

Sir, Calhoun July 10, 1835. On my arrival of Washington Rhea county I was informed that Hiram Turk had been shot by a Cherokee Indian, and that the wound was considered very dangerous. I regret this circumstances very much, as it obliges me to require, that you will immediately cause the offender to be asserted and delivered over to the civil authority of Monroe county to e dealt with according to law. Other circumstances have been communicated to me, which convince and disposition on the part of the Cherokees too hostile in its character. Let me entrust you to use the influence you have over the nation to put on