The constitution and laws of the Cherokee Nation, passed at Tah-Le-Quah, Cherokee Nation, 1839
Publisher: Printed by Gales and Seaton
Published: 1840
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 107
Subjects: Constitutions; Cherokee law
Notes: This edition contains laws through 1844: "The Gales and Seaton (Washington, 1840) edition of the constitution and 1839 acts forms the first 36 pages. Pages 37-102 were printed from the forms for pp. 3-68 of the Upham (Cherokee Baptist Mission, 1844) edition of the acts of 1840-43, pages and signatures newly numbered to follow the Gales and Seaton volume without break, and two repetitious lines at the bottom of p. 48 deleted. The table of contents of the Upham volume (pp. 69-72) was discarded and a new table (pp. 103-107) printed to cover the contents of the combined volume" (Hargrett 12).

Includes index.

Hargrett, L. Bib. of the constitutions and laws of the Amer. Indians, 12.