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that the subject upon which I now communicate was the more pressing of the two, I laid aside the former to gather what I could on this. From the impossibility of obtaining such information as I conceived the duty assigned to me of investigating points connected with the proposed treaty with the Cherokees required me to seek, I regret that my memoranda are, necessarily, often conjectured. Even where I have been supplied with the figures of a statement, I have no means of establishing whether the figures and the facts agree. I think, however, you will find I have not much erred in supposing 1st: That the treaty of 1835 engages to pay the Cherokee claims, national & individual; the former comprising the price of their country, east of the Mississippi, and liabilities under previous treaties; and the latter, claims for improvements, reservations and spoliations, and cost of removal and of subsistence for a given time after their arrival west. 2d: That, to meet their claims, moneys were appropriated and those intended for the nation, separately from those intended for individuals. 3d: That the portion set apart for the claims of individuals proving insufficient, the funds belonging to the nation