Cherokees staying within state limits. Georgia tested Cherokee sovereignty. Georgia State Assembly wrote Laws Extending Jurisdiction over the Cherokees on December 19, 1829. Georgia law repeals the ninth section of the act of 1828 as the first enactment. Section 7 enacts further, saying “...all laws, ordinances, orders and regulations of any kind whatever, made, passed, or enacted by the Cherokee Indians, either in general council or in any other way whatever, or by any authority whatever of said tribe, be, and the same are hereby declared to be null and void and of no effect, as if the same had never …show more content…
On May 28, 1830, Congress concurred in the Indian Removal Act, which President Andrew Jackson signed immediately. The Indian Removal Act begins Chapter CXLVIII as “An Act to provide for an exchange of lands with the Indians residing in any of the states or territories, and for their removal west of the river Mississippi.” The Indians had been moved west of the Mississippi river, and removed from their land with a sum of $500,000 dollars to their