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Resolved by the National Committee and Council In General Council Convened,
That from and after the passing of this act any citizen or citizens of this
Nation who shall bind themselves by enrolment or otherwise emigrants to Arkansas
or for the purpose of removing out of the jurisdictional limits of the Nation,
he, she, or they, enrolling or otherwise binding themselves shall forfeit thereby
all the rights and privileges he, she, or they may have previously thereto claimed
or enjoyed as citizens of this Nation and shall be viewed in the same light
as others not entitled to citizenship and treated accordingly.
Sec. 2d. Be it further resolved that if any person or persons as citizens
of this Nation shall sell or disposed of his, her or their improvements to any
person or persons so enrolled or otherwise bound as above mentioned he, she,
or they shall be viewed as having disposed of his, her, or their improvements
to a citizen of the United States, and shall be ineligible to hold any office
of honor, profit or trust in this nation, and upon conviction thereof before
any of the circuit courts of the several Districts be fined in a sum not less
than one thousand dollars not exceeding two thousands dollars and punished with
one hundred lashes.
Sec. 3d. Be it further Resolved, in order to prevent any person
or persons from screening, him, her, or themselves from the penalties above
prescribed by pretending to have sold or disposed of his, her, or their improvements
to a lawful citizen and not an emigrant, all citizens of this Nation who may
hereafter buy, sell or dispose of in any manner their improvements to each other,
be, and they are hereby required, the disposer as well as the purchaser of such
improvements to make affidavit, to be filed in the clerks office of the District,
before any of the District Judges or clerks of the several courts, that he,
she, or they did not dispose or transfer, purchase, or obtain said improvement,
for the purpose of having it valued by U. S. Commissioners or agents, or were
not acting as agents of emigrants in making such purchase or transfer; and in
case any person or persons who shall fail to comply with this requirement, such
person or persons shall upon conviction before any of the circuit courts in
this Nation, pay a fine of not less than one dollar nor exceeding two hundred
dollars for every offence so committed.
Be it further resolved, that any citizen or citizens of this nation who
shall dispose of or transfer his, her, or their improvements without complying
with the requisition of the third section of this act, and the person or persons
to whom the sale or transfer of such improvements may be made, should thereafter
by enrolment or otherwise become as emigrant or emigrants, & shall get said
improvement or improvements valued by Agents of the Gen. Government within thirty
days after such purchase or transfer shall have been made, or at any time whilst
the disposer continues to remain in possession of the same, then in that case
the person or persons who may have so disposed of or transferred the improvement
or improvements as aforesaid, shall be subject to the same penalty prescribed
in the 2d. section of this act, for disposing of improvements to emigrants.
Be it further Resolved, that any person or persons whosoever who
have bound themselves by enrolment or otherwise as emigrants under the treaty
of May 1828, with the Arkansas Cherokees, or who have had, or intend to have
their improvements valued by the agents of the Gen. Government, and do not remove
out of the jurisdictional limits of this nation within fifteen days after the
passage of this act, they shall be viewed and treated as intruders in the same
manner as those who may become emigrants hereafter.
Sec. 5th Be it further Resolved,that the Principal chief of the Nation
be, & he is hereby authorized, by and with the advice of the executive counsellors,
to order the apprehension of any intruders within the limits of this nation
to be delivered over to the agent of the United States for the Cherokees to
be prosecuted under the intercourse laws of the United States, or to expel "or
to punish them or not as they please."
New Echota, Oct. 31, 1829.
Lewis Ross, Pres`t N. Comm.
Going Snake, Speaker.
Wm. S. Coody Clk. N. Comm.
Jno. Ridge Clerk N. Com.
Approved- Jno Ross
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