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Wm Carroll and John F. Schermerhorn or by such commissioners as shall be appointed by the President of the United States for that purpose and their decision shall be final and on their certificate of the amount due the several claimants they shall be paid by the United States. All stipulations in former treaties which have not been superseded or annulled by this shall continue in full force and virtue.

18. Whereas in consequence of the unsettled affairs of the Cherokee people and the early frosts, their crops are insufficient to support their families and great distress is likely to ensue and whereas the nation will not, until after their removal be able advantageously to expend the income of the permanent funds of the nation it is therefore agreed that the annuities of the nation which may accrue under this treaty for two years, the time fixed for their removal shall be expended in provision and clothing for the benefit of the poorer class of the nation; and the United States hereby agree to advance the same for that purpose as soon after the ratification of this treaty as an appropriation for the same shall be made. It is however not intended in this article to interfere with that part of the annuities due the Cherokees west by the treaty of 1819.

19. This treaty after the same shall be ratified by the President and Senate of the United States shall be obligatory on the contracting parties.

Major Ridge, James Foster, Tesa-ta-esky, Charles Moore, George Chambers, Tah-yeske, Archilla Smith, Andrew Ross, William Lassley, Cae-te-hee,

Te-gah-e-ske, Robert Rogers, John Gunter, John A. Bell, Charles F. Foreman, William Rogers, George W. Adair, Elias Boudinot, James Starr, Jesse Half-breed.

Signed and sealed in presence of Western B. Thomas, Secry. Ben. F. Currey, Special Agent. M. Wolfe Bateman, 1st Lt. 6th U. S. A. inf., Disbg. Agent. Jno. L. Hooper, Lt. 4th inf. C. M. Hitchcock, M. D. Assist. Surg. U. S. A. G. W. Currey. Wm. H. Underwood. Cornelius D. Terhune. John W. H. Underwood.

March 1, 1836.