James K. Polk, President of the United States of America, to all and singular to whom these presents shall come, greeting

whereas a treaty was made and concluded at Washington, in the District of Columbia, on the sixth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, between the United States of America, by their commissioners Edmund Burke, William Armstrong and Albion K. Parris; and John Ross, principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, David Vann, William S. Coody, ... delegates duly appointed by the regularly constituted authorities of the Cherokee Nation; George W. Adair ... a delegation appointed by and representing that portion of the Cherokee tribe of Indians known and recognised as the "Treaty Party"; John Brown ..., delegates appointed by and representing that portion of the Cherokee tribe of Indians known and recognised as "Western Cherokees" or Old Settlers ...