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top left margin note: Summary. claims of individuals, there has been an outlay of five millions, three hundred & twenty two thousand, two hundred and seventy four dollars, forty eight cents, -- although, for that special portion, one million, seven hundred & twenty two thousand and Sixty seven, dollars, only, have been set apart; making an excess over the limitation by congress, of [ Expenditure $5,322,274:48 Limitations 1,722,067:00 Excess $3,600,207:48 ] three million, six hundred thousand, two hundred and seven dollars, forty eight cents. -- And still it is believed, that, notwithstanding these immense expenditures, the demands remaining unsatisfied for every item upon which they have been made, are even yet startlingly great. But it is not for these only that the demands continue; for I find, in the very last memorial of the Cherokee Chiefs before Congress, bearing date February 28: 1840 (See Representative Document 129, 26th Congress, 1st session, page 11) that they earnestly implore, not only "indemnification for the loss of private property and for injuries sustained in their forced removal," but "for the country which has been taken from them east of the Mississippi." Where, then, is the four millions of the balance of the