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to the decision of the Senate for an additional allowance: The commissioner here delivered the instrument to the Delegation without his official signature: The Principal chief and enquired if that instrument was to be considered on a memorandum of his propositions, because containing no signature: The Commissioner then Template:Unclear, if it was necessary to have his name, he would sign it, and the subscribe his name, and retired. His Private Secretary then examined the instrument and wrote upon it, John Rofs and others, to treat with the United States' Commissioners." The following is a copy of the document submitted on this occasion and alluded to in the foregoing memorandum: Whereas the condition of the Cherokee Indians East of the Mississippi has become truly deplorable and insupportable by the flux of the citizens of the United States, among them, and the extension of the Laws of the States over them, within whose jurisdiction they reside, and as they are now fully convinced there is no relief for them here, and that they cannot be re-instated in their former privilege and rights; and the Government of their choice, in their present country; And whereas the people have been much distracted and divided among themselves, in the subject of selling their country to the United States and