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CHEEOKEB TAWS.
The following laws of the Cherokee Ma
ri tion, we publish as we find them in prir: ,
4 without any corrections, except what \\<
[ suppose may be typographical emus. They
l^havc already been circulated in this Nation
in a pamphlet form.—Our readers at a dis
tance will perhaps be gratified to see the
first commencement of written laws among
the Cherokces. We publish some that are
not noxv in force. The repealing laws will
1 appear in the or >er of time they were pa-s-
■ ,ed.
LAWS.
Resolved by the Chiefs and Warriors
|pm a national council .assembled, That it
shall be, and is hereby authorized, for
regulating parties to be organized to
consist of six njen in each company;
| one captain, one lieutenant and lour
privates, to continue in service for the
term of one year, whose duties it shall
be to suppress horse stealing and the
robbery of other property within their
respective bounds, who shall he paid
out of the national annuity, at the rates
| of fifty dollars to each captain, forty
| to the lieutenant, and thirty dollars to
each of the privates; and to give then-
protection to children as heirs to their
fathers’ property, and to the widow’s
share whom he may have had children
fcy, or cohabited with, as his wife, at
the time of his decease; and in case a
father shall leave or will any proper
ty to a child at the time of his decease
rtvhich he may have had by another
woman, then, his present wife shall be
•entitled to receive any such property
as may he left by him or them, when
substantiated by one or two disinterest
ed witnesses.
Be it resolved by the Council afore
said, When any person or persons
which may or shall he charged with
stealing a horse and upon conviction
by one or two witnesses, he, she or
’$ney shall be punished with one hun
dred stripes on the bare back, and the
linufi^hment to be in proportion for
^-stealing propefty of less value; and
ftiouhl the accused person or persons
rise up with arms jn his or their hands.
As guns, axes, spears and knives, in
opposition to tne regulating company,
and should they kill him or them, the
fclood of him or them shall not be re
quired of any of the persons belonging
to the regulators from the clan the per
son so killed belonged to.
Accepted.
BLACK FOX, Principal Chief.
PATH KILLER, Scc'd.
TOOCHALAR.
£HARLES HICKS, F c»
Brooms Town, Sept, n
nth* Council.
1808.
Jjc it known, That this day, the va
rious clans or tribes which compose
the Cherokee Nation, have unanimous
ly passed an act of oblivion for all lives
lor which they may have been indebt
ed, one to ihe other, and have mutual
ly agreed that after this evening the
aforesaid act shall become binding up
on every clan, or tribe; and the aiore-
said clans or tribes have also a-
greed that if in future, any life should
be lost without malice intended, the
innocent aggressor shall not be aecouiir
ted guilty.
Be it known also, That should it so
happen that a brother, forgetting his
natural affection, should raise his hand
in anger and kill his brother, he shall
be accounted guilty of murder and suf
fer accordingly. And if a man has a
horse stolen, and overtakes the thief,
nnd should his anger be so great as to
c ause him to kill him, let his blood re
main on his'own conscience, but. no
satisfaction shall he demanded for his
life from his relatives or the clan he
may belong to.
By order of the seven clans.
TURTLE AT HOME,
Speaker of Council.
Approved.
BLACK FOX, Principal Chief.
PATH KILLER, Sec’it.
TOOCHALAR.
CHARLES HICKS, Sc.-V (othe Council.
Qosianallcih, April 10, 1S10.
Whereas, fifty-four towns and villa
ges having ctmvened in order to de
liberate and consider on the situa
tion of our nation, in the disposition
of our common property of lands,
without the unanimous consent of
the members of the Council, and in
order to obviate the evil consequen
ces resulting in such course, we
have unanimously adopted the fol
lowing form for the future gover
nment of our nation.
article 1st. It is unanimously a-
greed, that there shall he thirteen
members elected os a Standing Com
mittee for the term of two years, at
the end of which term they shall he
either re-elected or others; and in
consequence of the death or resigna
tion of any of said Committee, our
head Chiefs shall elect another to fill
the vacancy.
Article 2d. The affairs of the
Cherokee Nation shall be committed
to the care of the Standing Committee:
but the a ts of this body shall not be
binding on the Nation in our common
property, without the unanimous con
sent of the members and Chiefs ofthe
Council, which they shall present for
their acceptance or dissent.
Article 3d. The authority and
claim of our common property shall
cease with the person or persons who
shall think proper' to remove them
selves without the limits of the Cher
okee Nation.
Article 4th. The improvements
and labors of our people by the moth
er's side shall be inviolate during the
time of their occupancy.
Article 5lh. This Committee
shall settle with the Agency for our
annua! stipend, and report their pro
ceedings to the members and Chiefs
in council; but the friendly communi
cation between our head Chiefs and
the Agency shall remain free and open.
Article 6th. The above articles
for our government, maybe amend
ed at our electional term, and the
Committee ig hereby required to be
governed by the above articles, and
<he Chiefs and Warriors in Council
unanimously pledge themselves to ob
serve strictly Ihe contents of the a-
hove articles.—Whereunto v/s have
set our hands and seals at Amoah.this
Oth day of May, one thousand eight
hundred and seventeen.
Approved in Council, on the day and
• date above wr’lten.
EHNAUT AUN AUF,H,
Speaker to the Council.
Approved of the within government by
the head Chief,
PATH X KILLER,
mark.
A. McCOY, Sec’v to the Council.
CHARLES H'CKS.
[.TO BE CONTINUED.}
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‘There are people,’ continued the
corporal, ‘who can’t even breathe,
without, slandering a neighbor.’
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‘You judge too severely. ’ replied n'y.
aunt Prpdy, ‘no one is slandered who
does not deserve it.’
‘That maybe,’ retorted the corpo?
ral, ‘hut I have heard very sliglit
things said of you.'
The face of my aunt kindled with
anger, vlfc/’ she exclaimed, ‘JIid —
slight things cf :nc! what can any body
say of me!"
‘They say,’ answered the corporal
gravely, and drau ing his words to
keep her in suspense, ‘that—that \ cu
arc no better than you ought to be.’
Fury flashed fiom the eyes of my
aunt,
‘Who are the wretches?’
‘I hope they slander no one who
does not deserve it,’ remarked the cor
poral ject ingly, as he left the room.
The feelings of my aunt may w ell
be conceived. She was sensibly in
jured. True she had her foibles.—
She was peevish and fretful. But
she was rigidly moral and virtuous.— :
The purest ice was not more chaste.
The Pope himself could not boast more
piety. Conscious oftlu; correctness of
her conduct, she was wounded at the
remark of the corporal. Why should
her neighbors slander her? She coulij
not conjecture.
Let. my aunt be consoled. A per
son who can live in this world without
suffering slander, must be too stupid
or insignificant to claim attention.
Cannibalism.— Extract of a lottos
from Messrs. Tyerman and Bennett,
to Mr. Loomis, of the Sandwhich Isl
and mission, dated Canton, Nov. 1825;
“We tuiichcd at New Zealand; and
owing to the imprudence of our cap
tain, the natives rose upon us, took us,
and our vessel—and both, were in their
hands about an hour and - a half. They
stood over us with uplifted axes and
weapons of destruction, as if waiting
ti!J some signal should he given;—and
wo expected every moment to he out
last, and to he eaten as soon as killed.
One of these horrid cannibals came
and handled mv person to see what
sort of food I should be for them. At
length a boat arrived, in which was ji
chief of inf uence and one of the Wr.«b
leyan missionaries- The chief acted
the most friendly part, ns w r e!l as the
missionary, and we were delivered
and peace restored. This very chief,
who came as our deliverer, had a tew
years before instigated a plot, and cut
off a large ship”, and the whole crew
were devoured, upwards of ninety
persons. The wreck of this ship wap
before our eyes at the moment of qujj*
captivity.’’
