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 TREATY WITH THE CHEROKEES. AUG. 6, 1846. 875 shall be paid by the Cherokee nation, or the salines. returned to their respective owners. Amrcm VIII. The United States agree to pay to the Cherokee nation the sum of p,,.,,,", {0,. two thousand dollars fol' a pl'lnting—preSS, materials, and other property a printing-press, destroyed at that time; the sum of five thousand dollars to be equally ““““ &°· divided among all those whose arms were taken from them previous to their removal west by order of an officer of the United States; and the further sum of twenty thousand dollars, in lieu of all claims of the Cherokee nation, as a nation, prior to the treaty of 1835, except all Ind. 'I‘reat.,vol. lands reserved, by treaties heretofore made, for school funds. b P- 478- Arcrrctm IX. The United States agree to make a fair and just settlement of all _ A fair and {just moneys due to the Cherokees, and subject to the par capita division  tig under the treaty of 29th December, 1835, which said settlement shall Chgrgkces under exhibit all money properly expended under said treaty, and shall em— Wes-W Of 1835 l-¤ brace all sums paid for improvements, ferries, spoliations, removal, b§,?;"·}?;e,,_ VOL and subsistence, and commutation therefor, debts and claims upon the 1, p. 478. ' Cherokee nation of Indians, for the additional quantity of land ceded to said nation; and the several sums provided in the several articles of the treaty, to be invested as the general funds of the nation; and also all sums which may be hereafter properly allowed and paid under the provisions of the treaty of 1835. The aggregate of which said several sums shall be deducted from the sum of six millions six hundred and forty-seven thousand and sixty-seven dollars, and the balance thus found to be due shall be paid over, per capita, in equal amounts, to all those individuals, heads of families, or their legal representatives, entitled to receive the same under the treaty of 1835, and the supplement of 1836, being all those Cherokees residing east at the date of said treaty and the supplement thereto. Amxcnn X. It is expressly agreed that nothing in the foregoing treaty contained R. l ts I d shall be so construed as in any manner to take away or abridge any ,,,,,,,,1% rights or claims which the Cherokees now residing in States east of 1835,n¤t¤iTcc¢edthe Mississippi River had, or may have, under the treaty of 1835 and ,1,Q‘f*,,_{,f""‘·»"°l· the supplement thereto. I Anrrctn XI. Whereas the Cherokee delegations contend that the amount expended _ Certain quesfor the one year’s subsistence, after their arrival in the west, of the _,*°£° Sfhbé Eastern Cherokees, is not properly chargeable to the treaty fund; It gcnm of u_ 5, is hereby agreed that that question shall be submitted to the Senate of the United States for its decision, which shall decide whether the subsistence shall be borne by the United States or the Cherokee funds, and if by the Cherokees, then to say, whether the subsistence shall be charged at a greater rate than thirty-three, {*,*6 dollars per head; and also the question, whether the Cherokee nation shall be allowed interest on whatever sum may be found to be due the nation, and from what date and at what rate per annum.