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obligations to individuals - first branch - commission under the 17th article.

given to Major Armstrong, then west of Arkansas, to pay "individual claims awarded by the Cherokee Commissioners for Improvements, Spoliations?, Reservations & Debts", - and which he will "continue to pay." - Now the Commission in question commenced in September, 1836, and closed on the 5th of March, 1839; - if any of the claims in question, therefore, were awarded early, the money appropriated for them must have been kept back nearly four years; but even if awarded at the latest hour, the