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Of late years, a A very favorite mode with the government of harassing the Cherokees, has been strikeout to to with hold the annuities, promised them in payment for sundry cessiorns of land. The Cherokees East of the Mississippi, in their ancient territory, are entitled to $6,666: 66 2/3 per annum, Formerly their people were assembled at specified times & places, at the expense of the United Sates, to receive this debt paid in annuity instalments. But it was thought that strikeout these large assemblies strikeout presented temptations to irregularity strikeout, which checked their advances in civilization. Hence prior to the year 1819, at the suggestion of Col: Return Jonathan Meigs, then agent of the United States , the Cherokees appointed a Receiver of their [moniast], to whom, for many years, they were paid, with $1250 in addition, the estimated expense of [mbrirlty] the Indians while attending to receive their annuities of the {LW] Calhoun left the War Department, the $1280 was no longer added, but until 1830, the payment of the regular annuity proceeded in the regular way. But on the 18th of June 1830, the War Department issued the following