48 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull. 196 



FREE TRANSLATION 



Now! This group of six deliberated at Tsu:hla[s house. They 

 discussed money, and they decided that they were not defeated and 

 that the tax of WoKtown and Painttown could be divided into two 

 parts. 



Now! Of all the various things that were happening to them 

 in their work in Birdtown, that is all that they decided to take care of. 

 We chose a group of three — Ts{i)sgilie:gwa, Ayv:adhu:gd, and 

 Tsu'.hla — to become the dividers, and then in their own towns to look 

 for the money. This is the way to do because they [the taxpayers] 

 are spending it. 



Now! That is all that I wrote. I believe that it is enough. 

 I, Diga:hl{i)lu:gi, just wrote this on March 18, 1857 for you, Ino:li, 

 to read. 



COMMENTARY 



The six men meeting at the home of Tsu:hla in Wolf town would 

 appear to have been official representatives from Wolftown and 

 Painttown. We know from another document that Ts{i)sgilie:gwa 

 was Chief of Wolftown. The only matter that the group acted upon 

 was the State of North Carolina tax on Will Thomas' Jackson County 

 land, something which concerned both townships. There is no light 

 shed upon "their work in Birdtown." 



Since Ino:li at the time of this meeting was the clerk of the town- 

 ship in which it was held, one would expect him to have been present 

 upon the occasion. Whether Diga:hl(i)lu:gi was the Painttown clerk 

 or merely Ino:li's substitute is something that we cannot determine. 

 Doubtless this note was written for the purpose of apprising Inodi of 

 what took place at the meeting. 



This document is not from The Inoli Letters proper, but from Bureau 

 of American Ethnology File No. 2241-b which consists of some fugitive 

 Mooney material cataloged in February 1958. 



Mooney's note upon it reads: "Letter fr. Tilalilugi." 



NO. 14:—GADU:G{W] REGULATIONS 

 (on recto) 



' 'He Arose.' 



8 Forms of the verb 'to extend credit' we have usually translated 'to owe.' For example, what we have 

 rendered 'he owes me' is literally 'I extend credit to him.' 



