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obligations to individuals - second branch - removal and subsistence.

fund on hand, the sum set apart for Obligations to the Cherokee Nation Collectively, was not resorted to for the removal of Individuals of the Cherokee Nation?

Summary

I have, in the preceding pages, endeavoured to show, that the Cherokee Treaty of 1835, according to the laws which regulate our dealing generally with Indians, - engages to pay to the Cherokee Nation, or Tribe, a specified price for their country east of the Mississippi; and that it also engages to pay the public debts of the nation or tribe, limiting its liabilities for those debts to sixty thousand dollars; and that it provides for the investment of certain national funds for the benefit of the tribe or nation collectively. - Pursuant to the same principles, the Treaty likewise engages to pay individuals for the property it takes from them as individuals, and for such losses and expences as it brings on them; and it engages to pay for these last independently; the national and the individual payments being always kept distinct, but the obligation to make them being always held equally sacred.

It further appears, that, in obedience