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top left margin headnote: obligations to individuals - first branch - commission under the 17th article Charges in paragraph numbered 2: -- Claims unjustly disallowed. Charges in paragraphs numbered 3 & 5: - Unjust debts stopped by the commission out of Cherokee money. Charges in paragraphs numbered 6 & 7: Collusion with corrupt attornies and exclusion of honest ones. I proceed to take up these points in succession. Charges in the 1st and 4th paragraph. -- Source of the difficulty of procuring evidence whether there was just dealing in the claims allowed. The Commission kept no journal. Between the different books relating to the same class of business, which they did keep, there is no connection by references. None of these books set forth the grounds upon which the allowances were made. These grounds are only discoverable by a recourse to the original papers. Then suppose there should be a recourse to the original papers. What do we find? Those of all descriptions, with but a few exceptions, and whether relating to claims allowed or disallowed, huddled up together. Charges in the 2d paragraph. -- Source of the difficulty of proving whether the disallowance of claims was just or unjust. There