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obligations to individuals - second branch - removal & subsistence.

of losses upon contacts for the same purpose, entered into by the United States, but on their part broken. I am also told that the removals are even yet incomplete; that in Cherokee & Haywood County, North Carolina, there yet remain some twelve hundred; - that in Old Pendleton District, South Carolina; - in Bradley & Polk Counties, Tennessee; - on the Chatahoochie, and on a water course in Habersham County, Georgia, - There are, at least, Six hundred more, making eighteen hundred in all, - yet to be removed. I am of opinion that it will be indispensable to a satisfactory understanding of these particulars, to obtain answers to he following questions, through an analysis of whatever papers and accounts and vouchers there may be found relating to them: 1st: What number of Cherokees yet remain within the jurisdiction of the United States, east of the Mississippi, - and where are they? 2d: What payments were made for emigration, under the Treaty of 1835, before and after or simultaneously with, the arrangements with John Ross? 3d: To whom were such payments made, and when? And what are their respective amounts? 4th: What were the various payments made