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Obligations to the nation collectivity.

hundred and thirty thousand, one hundred & thirty eight dollars, placed in the first of the two classes of obligations, all but four millions are accounted for; that sum being left on hand for the Cherokee Nation collectively.

Obligations to individuals of the nation.

     The sums provided for the obligations to the Cherokee Nation Collectively being considered, I am brought to the sums provided for obligations to the Individuals of the Cherokee Nation.

Obligations to individuals - two distinct branches.

    These appear to have been entrusted by the United States to two distinct parties; the first being commissioners, acting in concert with a Cherokee Committee; -- the second, being Agents, bearing various designations, & appointed at various times.
    To the Commissioners acting in concert with the Cherokee Committee, was assigned the duty of examining the claims of every description, and upon their decision, which was to be final, such claims were paid.
                                      To the Agents were assigned the arrangements for removing the Cherokees & for subsisting them in the west during a given time & for disbursing the seventy five thousand dollars appropriated to facilitate the Cherokee emigration. 

Obligations to individuals -- first branch commission under the 17th article.

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