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On the recordJanuary 2, 1852
I nominate Elisha Whittlesty and Elias S. Terry to be commissioners under the seventeenth article of the treaty concluded with the Cherokee tribe of Indians at New Echota on the 29th day of December, 1835.
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Millard Fillmore
Whig · New York

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