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Summary.

Five millions set apart for that purpose under the Treaty, and which ought to be in reserve for them and untouched?

There can be no such balance; for it appears that the only balance now in reserve for all possible purposes, is less than four hundred thousand dollars. It must be, therefore, that the means to meet the immense overpayment so far exceeding the one million seven hundred and twenty two thousand and sixty seven dollars, set apart to cover the second of the two classes of our liabilities under the treaty, have been drawn from the Four millions of balance which ought to have been held sacred for the first of these two classes of our liabilities. - Indeed, I learn that such is actually the case; and I learn it with some astonishment, because the operation of this course appears to involve an absurdity rendering it utterly untenable. For, Suppose we actually do consider the sum defined as payment for the Cherokee country east, an indiscriminate fund, to be resorted to for individuals, whenever the sum distinctly limited and set apart to extinguish their special claims might be exhausted, - what is the result? - The moment the fund provided by the United States for private claims of Cherokees is gone.