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hereafter, if he continued to reside and exercise authority among the Cherokees. The Template:Unclear, by complying with their stipulations and agreements with the United States, Template:Unclear to the terms of the Treaty, by their own voluntary act deprived themselves from all authority and claim in the common property of the Cherokee Country. The following law was passed by the Cherokee Council at the time that the Committee of thirteen were constituted, May 6, 1817. "Art. 3rd. The authority and claim of our common property shall cease with the person or persons who shall think proper to Template:Unclear themselves without the limits of the Cherokee Nation." Of this law, the Committee of thirteen, who it is believed, signed the Treaty of 1819, and all of whom provided themselves with reservations, could not have been ignorant. We must then come to the conclusion that in good faith they intended to separate themselves from the nation and become Citizens of the United States.- Has this been the case? Have they continued permanently to reside on their reservations according to their express stipulations, and the condition on which they received them? They have not; but the first favorable opportunity that offered, they fold them at very high prices, from $3,000 to $8,000 each. Mr. John Rofs sold his for only 5 thousand 5 hundred. And then they removed again into the Indian Country; and here they too possession of all the most valuable ferries; and stands for public business; and by these means they have most o them become rich, and their wealth has given them influence over the common Indians. We ask, again, how does this course the Reserves have pursued, agree with their express stipulations and engagements according to the Treaty? Where is their moral honesty and good faith in such transactions? Let us enquire whether, by the course they have adopted, they are Template:Unclear from their obligations to the United States, as Citizens, by the Treaty? It will not