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they take the guilty one, if to be come at. If he flees, they take the nearest of kin, or one of the family. In some cases, the family who have done the injuring promises reparation, and in that case, are allowed a reasonable time to fulfil their promise: and they are generally earnest of themselves in the endeavors to put the guilty to death to save an innocent person. This right of judging and taking satisfaction being rested in the family or tribe, is the sole cause why their treaty stipulations on this head never have been executed. In like manner, a prisoner taken in war, is the property of the captor and his family. It being optional with the captor to kill or save at the time. And this right must be purchased. And it is now the practice introduced within a few years for the nation to pay. The practice has been introduced by the agent for Indian Affairs, and he pays on the order of the chief, out of the stipend allowed by the United States to the Creeks. claims of this sort of 17 years, standing, where the prisoner has been delivered to the order of the chiefs, have been revived, allowed & paid.