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    "title": "Letter from George Cortelyou, Secretary to the President to Secretary of the Interior E. A. Hitchcock",
    "description": "This item includes a letter that encloses correspondence from Robert Owen, Attorney for the Eastern Cherokees, Senator Cockrell, and Senator Quay regarding a contract executed by T.M. Buffington, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.",
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    "ocrText": "The Probidem\nWashington, D.C., January 17, 1903.\nThe President\nSir:\nand\nshould\nWe respectfully pray you to request\nthe Hon-\norable, The Secretary of the Interior, to withdraw his approval\nof a certain contract executed yesterday by T.M.Buffington, Prin-\ncipal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, with certain attorneys, author-\nizing suit in the Court of Claims in the case now pending in Con-\ngress, and be fore you, by reference to the Department of Justice\non December 22, 1902, (Eastern Cherokee Case, Congressional 10,386)\nThe reason of this request is that the Secretary's action will\ndeprive us of our legal and rightful remedy in Congress and bef ore\nyou by forcing us to intervene in the Courts. The faccts recited\nbelow will convince you of the absolute justice of this request\nand of its vital importance to us.\nto\nUnder the Cherokee Agreement ratified by Congress March 3, 1893,\nthere is due the Eastern Cherokees $1,111,284.70 with interest.\nThe Cherokee Nation by gross neglect allowed this award to slum-\nber five years.\nCongress dismantled the Cherokee Nation and abolished its author -\nity June 28, 1898,\nIn February, 1900, the Eastern Cherokees, by treaty and by com-\nmon law right organized by repeated well advertised conventions\nunanimous in action, and took steps for self representation"
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