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top right margin note: Summary. I have mentioned that the funds for which the United States stand responsible to the Cherokees at this moment, may be stated, generally as follows: I. Funds for the nation Aggregate as fixed by law $ 5,330,138:00 portions of which have been thus employed: to pay for 800,000 acres of land $ 500,000:00 " " " Missionary improvements & osage reservees bought out 40,000:00 " " " arrearages of annunities to Mr Ross 25,000:00 Invested according to treaty 714,000:00 Old School Fund, supposed in hand 51,138:00 1,330,138:00 Leaving to be accounted for $4,000,000:00, of the sums specified as national indemnification. II. Funds for Individuals. aggregate as fixed by law $1,722,067:00 the whole of which has not only been fully employed, but transcended as follows: amount expended by the Commission under the 17th article of this Treaty, for spoliations, claims, &c. $2,329,524:85 Paid to John Ross for removal & other charges relating to it, of thirteen thousand persons 1,357,745:86 1/2 Amount apparently expended under the appropriation of June 12, to "facilitate the removal of the Cherokees" -- 8,000:00 3,695,270:71 1/2 thus, leaving an excess of $1,973,203:7 1/2. -- expended upon the second of the two classes of claims under the Treaty, more than the entire sum limited for that particular division by the instrument itself and the laws connected with it. But even this, vast as its excess, constitutes, from all appearances, but a portion, and perhaps even a very small one, of what the branch in question has actually afforded. This I infer from the fact that but three hundred & ninety nine thousand, seven hundred & ninety two dollars, fifty two cents, of Cherokee money of every appropriation remained in hand on the first of January last; and if