OF

THE CHEROKEE NATION

against

THE STATE OF GEORGIA;

ARGUED AND DETERMINED AT

THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES,

JANUARY TERM 1831.

WITH

AN APPENDIX,

Containing the Opinion of Chancellor Kent on the Case ; the Treaties between
the United States and the Cherokee Indians ; the Act of Congress of
1802, entitled An Act to regulate intercourse with the Indian
tribes, &c.'; and the Laws of Georgia relative to the
country occupied by the Cherokee Indians,

within the boundary of that State.

BY RICHARD PETERS,

COUNSELLOR AT LAW.

C

Philadelphia:

JOHN GRIGG, 9 NORTH FOURTH STREET.

1831.

.

Entered according to the act of congress, in the year 1831, by Richard Peters, in the

Clerk's office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Philadelphia :
Printed by James Kay, Jun. & Co.

No. 4, Minor Street.