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follows __ And whereas by the several words scratched out treaties of United States with the Osage Indians, the union & Harmony Missionary Stations which were established for the benefit of the Osage Indians are now situated within the country ceded by them to the United States, the former being situated in the Cherokee country & the latter in the State of Missouri, it is therefore agreed that the United States shall pay to the American board of Five lines scratched out

      The next article begins from the 11th article of Ridge, and after copying 52-1/2 lines ends at words scratched out "proper for their interest," words scratched out but always leaving the forms of money mentioned blank. -- It then infests "the form of $ is also hereby appropriated to pay the debts of the Cherokee Nation" ___ and their proceeds to Art. 13 of Ridge, as far as "76 cents" & then departs from it by the following line, which ends the perect article of the Miss. treaty "shall constitute a part of the above general school fund of the nation." 
     Article. The claims of every kind of the Cherokee people upon the United States for unclear since the Treaty