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of the Resolution of the Senate, referred to, in the foregoing letter

In Senate of the United States
January 14^th 1819.

Resolved that the President of the
United States be requested to institute
a negotiation with the Chickasaw Tribe
of Indians, for the Cession of a Tract
of land, four miles square, including
a salt spring reserved to said Tribe
by the 4^th article of a Treaty concluded
with said nation on the nineteenth
day of October 1818: said Cession, when
made shall be for the benifit [sic] of the
State of Tennessee, on said state
paying the expense of holding said
Treaty

Attest
(signed)
Charles Cutts. Secretary