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The same law engages to remove the Indians at the expense of the United States, and to subsist them for one year in the place to which they are removed.

    To remove all making such exchange to their new lands at the expence of the United States, and to supply them with the means of subsistence there for one year.
    To protect and supervise them on their new abode as in their former one.

Our principles & the law guarantee payment to Indians for whatever they give up, collectively or individually.

    It is obvious from the preceding declarations and law, that the United States, in all their dealings with the Indians, engage to give fair compensation for whatever the Indians yield to them, either collectively or individually.

The first treaty of emigration in 1807, on the principle of fair payment, guarantees acre for acre for lands.

    Guided by this principle of fair compensation, in the thirteenth Cherokee Treaty, being their first of emigration, (see Synopsis page 25), the United States expressly proclaim that they exchange "acre for are" of their own lands in the west, for those of the Indians in the east; -- and when, in the fifteenth Treaty, being the third of emigration, (see Synopsis, page 40), a change of location in the west is agreed on by the Cherokees, in order to make up to them for the smaller value of the substituted land, the United States, to the acre for acre." Add the sum of fifty thousand dollars.

Proof that payment for lands in money was to be expected, where there could be no equivalent in land.

    Thus it appears to me the principle of fair payment for the national domains of Indians is settled, both by possession & by practice; and with it the principle of paying in money, when there is no payment in land.
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