FREE TRANSLATION 



(on recto) 



June 22, 1852 

 The coimcilmen have counted $124.03 in all. What the councilmen 

 counted is to help one. 

 "Add a dollar," I said, "and that is not to be borrowed." 



(on verso) 



June 22, 1852 

 Now! This is what I am thinking about you: You have $5.00 in 

 the township treasury. If you can lend it to me, Ga:l(u)sadi:hi, I 

 will pay $0.50 right now, and what you will have lent me for a month 

 I will repay as $6.00. 



S3 There are several verbs in Cherokee that roughly equate the English 'to say.' The qualities in which 

 they subtly differ from each other defy practical translation. 



2« Idiomatically to 'add' to or 'to enlarge.' 



2° Interjection: 'Attention!' 



s« One would expect this form to be hitsvyeli : se : hd, but what is written may have been regionally current 

 in 1852. 



2' Although the third syllable is written v, it may have been pronounced hv, as Is generally the case today. 



28 An acceptable variant, as is iyanv':da. 



