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top right margin head note: obligations to individuals - second branch - removal & subsistence. made for subsistence, from the commencement of such arrangements under the Treaty, up to the time when the persons thus subsisted reached their destination, and after having reached it, and by whom were such payments made? 5th. What were the various sums paid to John Ross, or his agents, under the contract for emigration, either by General Scott, or the Department, and when were these sums paid? 6th. Are there claims yet outstanding for subsistence of the Cherokees under the Treaty, -- either on the way, or after their arrival; -- either allowed or disallowed? And if so, What are they and which have been allowed and which disallowed? 7th. Are there claims yet outstanding for contacts either made, or stated to have been made, for removing Cherokees under the Treaty, and if so, by whom preferred and what is their amount? Conceiving an inquiry into these points to constitute a portion of the duty entrusted to me, I applied, as I have before hinted, at the Indian Bureau for information regarding them, which, not being granted, (as will be seen by the annexed correspondence), I can only refer for it to the same source. And thence only can a satisfactory reply be