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may be punished - Our Father the president has
consigned the business respecting the road to be cut opened throu
=gh your Nation into the State of Georgia to the Gover
nor of that State, and the Governor of Tennessee, together
with your beloved agent Col.^o Meigs, and such of
your own cheifs [sic] as your nation may think
proper to appoint - As soon as When we may agree on
the place for Commissioners to meet, and have all
things arranged, you will be informed ^& notified by Colonel
Meigs in time to be prepared, to and then we can when to enter upon the
business agreably [sic] to the agreement you entered
into made with the United States

Your friend & Brother

Executive department
Knoxville 9 Febr^y 1804

1804
Warriors & cheifs [sic] of the
Cherokee Nation - P
Col.^o Meigs

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