FREE TRANSLATION 



Now! This year this is what they spoke about and decided to 

 enforce. On May 20, 1859, they met at the schoolhouse, and there 

 they appointed me clerk. 



Ifsomeonewantstogetmarried, apaper mustbe obtained. The man 

 is to come get the paper, for which he will pay $0.25, then he is to 

 choose the one to marry them. He is to think of the preacher and 

 also the clerk that is to marry them. 



This rule is for the marrying of Cherokees: if one of the couple 

 is a Negro, they are not to be married; for it would be improper for 

 one to have to separate them. A Negro man is not to be given a 

 paper. 



« The first syllable is erroneously written hi, and there Is a superfluous » following the second syllable. 



