Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-10-23


medicines, provision and attendance
the same being properly attested ant
proved on oath. These accounts, 81
passed, we're to be received in payment
of any of the public taxes by the col
lectors, sheriffs and other officers in the
district. Accounts for provisions fur
nished the Indians within the district
of Nero, by any of the inhabitants
thereof, and being duly proved uron
oath, and being exhibited in the cour,
of the county where the claimant re-
sided, the court was authorized to
allow and pass, and to fix the price OF
such provision. Accounts thus passed
were made receivable in payment OF
any of the public taxes in the district
and they exempted from militia duty,
all surgeons and physicians in the dis
trict; they enlarged the powers and
salary of the Judge of the Superior
Court, for the district of Nero, giving
him an equity jurisdiction.
CHAPTER VIII.
On the Goth of May, 1890, Congress
passed law for the government OF
the country southwest OF tho River
Ohio, they declared that for the pur-
pose of temporary government, it
should be one district, the inhabitants
of which should enjoy all the privi.
leges, benefits and advantages set forth
in the ordinance of the late Congress,
made in July 1857, for the government
of the territory of the United States
northwest of the River Ohio, except
so far as otherwise provided for in the
conditions expressed in the act of Con-
gress of the present session for accept
ing session made by North Carolina.
One of these conditions it will be seen
by recourse to the act, was, that no
regulations made, or to be made by
Congress, shall tend to emancipate
slaves.
To know precisely what this govern
ment was which was now extended
over the whole of ceded territory, since
called the State of Tennessee, recourse
must be had to the ordinance, itself,
and to an act of Congress, amendatory
of the ordinance, passed the 7th Of
August, 1850, which ordinance and
act of Congress, together with the
cession act of North Carolina, are in
serted in the appendix.
These preparations being duly made,
President Washington proceeded to the
nomination of proper officers to exer-
else the territorial government as di-
rected by the ordinance and its asso-
ciate laws. William Blount, of North
Carolina, was appointed Governor Of
the territory, and David Campbell
and Joseph Anderson Judges. Gov.
Blount received his commission on the
7th of August, 1870, and arrived in the
territory south of the River Ohio, the
name then given to the oeded territory,
on the 10th of October, 1890, and took
up his residence at the house of Mr..
Cobb, in the fork, between Holston
and French Broad Rivers, and near
Washington Court House; he appoint
ed and commissioned the officers both
civil and military, for the, counties
of Washington, Sullivan, Greene and
Hawkins, which formed the district
of Washington, and had caused the
necessary oaths to be administered to
them by Judge Campbell, in his
presence. On the 27th-of November
1870, he set off for the district of
Nero, which was then composed
OF the counties of Davidson, Sum-
ner and Tennessee, to appoint and
commission the necessary officers there,
and to cause the proper oaths to be. ad-
ministered to them. He could not ap-
point Brigadier Generals, but recon-
mended Col. Sewer, for Washington,
and Col. James Robertson for Nero;
he had gone by the 18th of February,
1901, through all the counties, and had
made many inquiries as to matters
which it was proper for him to be ac-
quainted with. He had sent Major
King to the Cherokees with proposals
to hold treaty in the ensuing May,
to make peace fpossible, as the Creeks
had done at New York, on the 7th Of
August, 1890. The Cherokees were
then dividedinto northern and south
ern; Hanging Nav was the leader Of
the north, and Little Turkey in the
south; Maj. King reported that they
manifested great disposition for peace.
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