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Proofs that the five millions were exclusively to pay for the National Domain.

the allowance for spoliations or for the expences of removal. In accordance with this construction, the law of July 2d, 1836. (See vol ix of United States' Laws, page 453), expressly states, that five millions of the appropriation for carrying out the treaty of December 1835, were expressly "for the lands ceded in the first article."

Additional sums set apart for the national claims collectively, besides the five millions for the territory.

    Having thus fixed upon a sum for the territory east. -- and for the territory exclusive, -- various other claims of the nation collectively, remained to be disposed of.
    Of these, the United States agree to pay the Cherokee National Debts, or so much of them as can be covered by the sum of sixty thousand dollars for which a clause in the tenth article of the treaty, intimates an appropriation that has never yet come from congress. -- Some further provisions of less consequence are made for the nation, among them, of a sum to buy out certain Osages from lands intersecting those of the Cherokees and to pay certain missionaries for their lost reservations in the old nation, in order to enable them to re-establish their institutions in the new one. 

Sums set apart for the claims of individuals.

    Next arise the claims of individuals in the nation.
    There is an express guarantee to remove "each and all of the Cherokees, at the expence of the
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