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sorgwo [18] 

 one 



ani:se:n(i)si 



cents 



ani : sgaye : gv : sda 

 leaders 



nv?ghi 

 four 



iyan^? : do 

 months 



u:hnegw6:isdi 

 to Increase it, one 



igo : [hi : ]dv 



as long as 



ige : se : sdi ["] 

 it will be (cond.) 



dehalu : yi 

 June 



a:n(a)'se?ga 



they just counted it 



ade:lv:lii 



dollars 



a:n(a)'i'se?ga 

 they just counted it 



ade:lv:hi 



dollars 



nige:sv:na [^] 

 not 



unol"\? : dhani 



January 



a:n(a)?se'i*ga 



they just counted it 



dhadl(a)du[i8] 



twelve 



(second notation) 



10 



10 



arnadv 



they just said 



iya[nv : ]do 

 months 



22ni:se[»] 



22d 



i:g6:hi 1852 



dasrtime 1852 



ade : Iv 



money 



am:se:n(i)si nigarga 



cents then it totals 



sdhi : wi 

 Sdhi : wi 



nv:hw(a)sd6:sdigw6 aye:hli 



it must remain central 



ges6 : sdi 

 it will be 



ayv 

 I 



ude : dhiy\? : sadi : sv : i [2"] 



year 



100 24 ["] 



$1.24 



ani : sgaye : gv : sda 

 leaders 



go:w6:la:gd, 100 



I just wrote it $100 



g V : dh6 : hi (i) sdigw6 

 one can borrow it 



(third notation) 



4ne i : ga 



4th day 



ghan(e)?gwo:gi 

 it Just increased 



1853 hude:dhiy'v:sadi:sv 



1853 this year 



a'i'nv : yi 4 i : ga 



March 4th day 



FREE TRANSLATION 



(first notation) 



March 9, 1852 

 They counted the money in the Wolf town Council treasury, $90.03 

 in all. If someone wants to borrow $0.60 for 4 months, let us say, 

 from Tsa:lie:gwa, the treasurer, he is to bring a written request. He 

 will be permitted to borrow it, and he will repay $1.00. The council- 

 men said that for 12 months the interest is to be $0.10. 



(second notation) 



June 22, 1852 

 The councilmen counted $124.03. I, Sdhi:wi, wrote this. Of 

 this amount $100.00 is to remain in the township treasury, and one 

 can not borrow it. 



'» The first syllable of this numeral is cither sa or so, depending upon the dialect of the speaker or writer. 

 It is sa in the printed literature. 



1' In this form, a condition is implied. 



IS The conventional spelling, dhal{a,)du:, is almost Invariably pronounced as we have taken the liberty to 

 write it. 



>9 One would expect this abbreviation to be li:ne. The ni:se here may be an error. 



M Variant of 2ide:dhiyv:sadi:so. There is a connotation that the year is in progress. 



" One rather frequently encounters this fashion of writing numerals above one hundred in 19th-century 

 Cherokee manuscripts. 



M This word Is garbled in the manuscript. 



