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Resolution of the Senate of the State of Georgia. 1823 240 (1823)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0162 and id is 1 raw text is: Resolutions of Senate. IN SENATE, Dec. 12, 1823. The committee on the state of the republic. to whom was referred the resolution of the House of Represeuta- tives relatively to the claims of the citizens of Georgia. un- der the treaty made at the Indian Springs, on the eighth of January, eighteen hundred and twenty one, auid the peti- tion of David Glenn, one of the claimants, Report- That they have examined the subject presented to their consideration by these references, with all the care and attention demanded by its importame, and have concurred in the belief that the only efficient miode of obtaining the object in view, will be by -au address from the Legislature of Georgia to the President of the United States. They have accordingly prepared, and herewith submit the following memorial To the President of the United States of Anerica. The Memorial and Remonstrance of the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in Gen- eral Assembly met, respectfully sheweth- That the attention of your memorialists has been drawn to the construction given to the treaty, entered into between the United States and the Creek Indians, at the Indiau Spriiigs, in the year eighteen huidred and twenty-one, so far as the same relates to the claims of the citizens of Georgia, and believing that such construction is calcula- ted to prevent the allowance and payment of many of the said claims, which it was the intention of the parties immne- diately in interest to provide for, they ask the attention of the President of the United States to the reasons which have influenced to this belief. These memorialists would respectfully submit, that it was not the intention of the contracting parties, to confer on the President of the United States the right to exclude any of the claines of the citizens of Georgia as a class, ex- cept those occurring after the act of Congress of the year eighteen hundred and two. To them it seems, that the obvious iutentiou of these parties was, to invest him with 3Z4Q

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