[Missing Page/s] By the Senate & House of Representatives assembled, September 4, 1788 Resolved, That the Secretary at War be, & he is hereby directed, to have a sufficient number of Troops in the service of the United States in readiness to march from the Ohio to the protection of the Cherokee otherwise honga: Shall direct the same & that he take measures for obtaining information of the Soil limits for troops to march from the Ohio to Chota and for preserving among all the white Inhabitants settled upon or in the vicinity of the hunting Grounds fecured to the Cherokees by the treaty concluded between them & the United States November 28^th 1785 the proclamation of Congress of this date. Resolved, That copies of the said proclamation & these resolutions be transmitted to the Executives of Virginia & North Carolina, & that the said States or they are hereby requested to use their influence, that the said proclamation may have its extended effect to excite from & harmoney between a obligations of the United States & the Cherokees, and to prevent any further emigration of their respective subjects from pressing upon Congress, shall find it necessary to order troops to the Cherokee lands to enforce a due observance of the said Treaty. That the said States or they are hereby requested to cooperate with the said Troops for enforcing such observance of that Treaty. Resolved, That the papers which have been transmitted to Congress concerning certain hostilities alleged to have been committed by John Sevier & others on the Cherokee Indians at Chota, be referred to the Executives of North Carolina, & that the said Executive be, & they are hereby requested to cause enquiry to be made into the said hostilities and to take measures for having the perpetrators thereof apprehended and punished.— (Signed) Cha Thomson Sec^y a true copy from the originals J. Drayton