No,^75r' ^^^' CHRONICLES OF WOLFTOWN — KILPATRICK 15 



(third notation) 



January 4, 1853 



They counted the interest from March 4. 



COMMENTARY 



If the document preceding this one pertains to the moneylending 

 regulations of the Wolf town Council and not the Gadu:g{i), then the 

 difference between the $103.03 on hand on March 7th and the $90.03 

 on hand on March 9th, as recorded here, must be due to loans extended. 

 But the two documents may relate to two funds. They embrace the 

 same approximate period of time, and this may be of significance. 

 Sdhi:wi and Tsa:li may have been clerk and treasm'er, respectively, 

 of both the Gadu:g(i) and the Wolf town Council. 



The moneylending activities of the councils of the townships of 

 the Eastern Cherokee prior to the formation of a tribal government 

 have been neglected in the published literature. Here we find detailed 

 the technique employed, and in the second notation we gain a good 

 view of the conservative banking philosophy that prevailed. Since 

 the third notation is a duplicate of one found in the preceding docu- 

 ment, one wonders if January 4th were an official date for auditing. 



Clerk Sdhi.-wi underlines the word tso:gaHi twice, as if he were 

 quoting a term not in common usage. Mooney's caption and note 

 upon this word are somewhat illegible, but apparently the reading is : 

 "Wolftown Money Acct tsa-gah gah & tsan: an old exprion [expres- 

 sion ?] formerly usd in Countg [Counting], as tsal-gali tsa-gali etc 

 WW 8-3-11." 



We hypothesize that the word is a contraction of tso:la ('tobacco') 

 and ga^li (m. it,' flex.). Ga^li {ga^la in Itso:di and some other dialects) 

 signifies that the tobacco leaves repose in some container such as a 

 pouch. Conceivably this archaism relates to the use of tobacco as a 

 medium of exchange, the 'tobacco is in it' in counting equating with 

 'all there,' or 'true value.' 



NO. 4.— GA : L(U)SADI: HI REQUESTS A LOAN FROM THE WOLFTOWN 



COUNCIL 



