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obligations to individuals - second branch - removal & subsistence.

be obtained to another question, upon which I have also sought in vain for light. I allude to the amount granted by the third section of the act of June 12th, 1838, for blankets, clothing, medicine, medical assistance, and whatever might "facilitate the removal of the Cherokees". This is estimated at seventy five thousand dollars, twenty five thousand having been deducted from the entire appropriation of one hundred thousand dollars for other objects specified in the act. Of this I learn that sixty seven thousand yet remain in the Treasure; so the expenditure from the fund in question may be called eight thousand dollars. For example: Amount granted $75,000:- Balance of that amount now on hand 67,000:- Probably expended for the objects of the appropriation $8,000:- It merely remains, therefore, to be ascertained, whether the eight thousand dollars drawn out of the Treasure have really been devoted to the purposes for which the grant was made by congress. It may also not be irrelevant to inquire, as the act for the supply expressly allows its being employed for any purpose which "the President may deem proper to facilitate the removal of the Cherokees", how so large a portion of it happened to have remained on hand after all the other funds for the removal of the Cherokees were exhausted? - And whether, with this fund