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Presidential Proclamation, 5 April 1809 (Abstract)

§ Presidential Proclamation

5 April 1809, Washington. Offers lands ceded to the U.S. by the Cherokee and Chickasaw tribes, lying within the Mississippi Territory, for public sale. The sale will begin on 7 Aug. at Nashville, Tennessee, and continue for three weeks.

Letterbook copy (DNA: RG 49, Proclamations of Public Sales). 2 pp. Printed in Carter, Territorial Papers, Mississippi, 5:724–25.

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    “Presidential Proclamation, 5 April 1809 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-01-02-0115. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 1, 1 March–30 September 1809, ed. Robert A. Rutland, Thomas A. Mason, Robert J. Brugger, Susannah H. Jones, Jeanne K. Sisson, and Fredrika J. Teute. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1984, p. 101.]