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obligations to individuals - first branch - commission under the 17th article.

two courses the Commission in question could choose, either might be liable to exception. Had the bounds set by the Treaty been alone consulted, the sum there limited would have rendered the power of the Commission exceedingly barren & incomplete. But, in making adjudications

beyond the sum limited by the 

United States, it surely took the more philanthropic alternative, - and perhaps not an entirely unsafe one, - because a special law gives all Indians a claim to just payment for whatever is taken from them collectively or individually, and the Commission might have considered that it would be borne out by that law, where the Treaty fell short. As for the amounts to whicht the Treaty limits the payment for the specific obj