- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Communication] 1822 Nov. 29, Executive Department, Milledgeville, Georgia to the Senate and House of Representatives [of Georgia ?] / John Clark
- Creator:
- Georgia. Governor (1819-1823 : Clark)
- Date of Original:
- 1822-11-09
- Subject:
- Cherokee Indians--Government relations
Cherokee Indians--Treaties
Indian agents - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- correspondence
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- Communication dated November 29, 1822 from John Clark, Governor of Georgia (1819-1823) to the Georgia (?) legislature in which Clark discusses a request made by the Committee on the State of the Republic for various official papers. The committee would like copies of two reports as well as the instructions given to the commissioners currently appointed to treat with the Cherokee Nation. Clark explains that he cannot supply a copy of Mr. Gilmer's report to Congress about Indian reserves because his office never received it, and he refuses to make public any of the orders received by the treaty commissioners.
Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the Digital Library of Georgia in 2001, as part of GALILEO, funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. - Local Identifier:
- tcc480
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc480
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc480#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc480/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], Telamon Cuyler, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia
- Extent:
- 3 pages/leaves
- Original Collection:
- Manuscript held by the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries, Telamon Cuyler, box 48, folder 07, document 03.
- Holding Institution:
- Hargrett Library
- Rights:
-
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Executive Department Georgia Milledgeville
29th Novr. [November] 1822
To The Honble [Honorable] The Senate and House of Representatives,
I have been furnished with a copy of a resolution purporting to be from the committee on the State of the Republic requesting a copy of a report made by Colo [Colonel] Blair to this department also a copy of the instructions to the present commissioners appointed to treat with the Indians and also a copy of Mr. Gilmers report to Congress on the subject of Indian reserves -- . I am not apprised of any authority by which the committee have made this call, and therefore deem it improper to answer it except through you.
A Copy of Colo. [Colonel] Blairs report is herewith transmitted. The information contained in this document has already been of important use, and has no doubt had its influence with the President in the course which he
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has adopted, and I take the liberty of suggesting the [deleted text: propriety ] justice of your providing for the compensation of the individual who obtained it, and whose account is now [deleted text: furnished ] sent.
This department has been furnished with the instructions under which the present Commissioners are to treat with the Cherokee Indians. But as I have not considered myself at liberty to disclose them to individuals I deem [added text: it ] still more improper to make them the subject of public communication.
Mr. Gilmers report upon the subject of Indian reserves has never been furnished this department.
[Signed] John Clark
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Communication
Senate