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top right margin headnote: obligations to individuals- first branch - commission under the 17th article the Cherokee country is now inundated with this useless paper received from government officers in lieu of the specie to which they have a right & for the want of which they suffer. Would it not be adviseable to ascertain whether there is any truth in these reports? right margin section note: obligations to individuals- second branch - removal and subsistence. I am now brought to the second class of the two distinct parties entrusted with the sums provided for obligations to individuals of the Cherokee nation, --vis: the Agents, bearing various designations and appointed at various times. These agents were charged with the removal of the Cherokees to the west, and with their subsistence on the way thither, and after their arrival. The principal of them appears to have been John Ross, Chief of the Cherokees. The account of Mr Ross, and which I understand has been paid, appears to be as follows: For removing thirteen detachments (say of one thousand each, more or less), $1,263,338:48 1/4 Subsistence & forage prior to departure - 94,407:38 1/4 $1,357,745:86 1/2 This, however, is not the only account. Others, it is said, have been paid; but although I have applied to the Indian Bureau for information upon the subject, I cannot obtain the slightest thence. I am equally in the dark concerning various demands which have been made for indemnification in consequence of