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To Mr John Rofs P.C.C. Nation and others, a delegation appointed to treat with the United States Commissioner Red Clay Tennessee Red Clay Council Ground Oct 30. 1835. Sir I have requested you to furnish me with a copy of the Acts and proceedings of the General Council, in reference to my communication of the 17th Template:Inst?; and although you informed Mr William Rogers, the Secretary of the National Committee, to whom I applied for them, that on application to you I would be furnished with them; I have not received them. I must therefore rely on such information as I can obtain in reference to the appointment of your Committee. The chiefs, headmen and warriors, were then informed by an extract from the instructions of the Commissioners, that they were to treat with the people, but that there was no objection, in the first place, i the people wished it, to commit the details of a Treaty to a Committee "fairly and publicly chosen by them; but that the final action upon the subject must be had by the people in open Counsel." I will not depart from the explicit instructions I have received; and therefore you perceive at all events if it shall appear that the Committee has been barely chosen it will become necessary for the people again to convene an as the Commissioners are instructed to convene a Council at New Echota at such time as they think best and Governor Carroll has requested and authorized me to call said Council when I deem most expedient, you are therefore herby notified that the Commissioners will meet the Cherokee people in General Council