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top right margin headnote: obligations to individuals- first branch - commission under the 17th article There is no entry upon any books kept by the commissions, of any claims which they disallowed. The character of such, & the reasons of their rejection, can only be gathered from a reference to the original papers, which are in the same chaos that confounds those regarding the allowed claims. Some persons have imputed this confusion to deliberate contrivance for the purpose of mystification and of covering unfairness. Charges in the 3d & 4th paragraph. -- Source of the difficulty of discovering whether the debts allowed against Cherokees and Stopped by the Commission out of Cherokee money, were just or unjust. The aggregate of debts of this description allowed and stopped by the Commission, out of the moneys it had to pay the Cherokees, is stated at about nine hundred & three thousand three hundred and five dollars, eighty eight cents. In relation to these, the confusion of documents will prove, if possible, still more confounded. It seems the commission left two volumes, which are called Judgement Books, that is, books containing a simple minute of the amounts decreed by it to be due from one to another. From these Judgement Books the amount recorded against a Cherokee, was transferred to that one of eight books devoted to the accounts of allowances to Cherokee claimants, in which