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Circular to the Indian Agent,: "The Secretary of War directs that in future, the annuities transmitted to you for the Indians of your agency, [b] [distriluted] among the Chiefs, Warrior, and common Indians, [puring] to each Indian and his family, the amount to which he or they may be entitled, in proportion to his grade, and no other mode; and when there are individuals without families, payment must be made to much individuals and not to the Chiefs". 'It is not readily seen" says a [reminstruance] of the Cherokees Delegation to the Mr [Tenitory} Cafs, "how the Agent could tell the amount each individual would be entitled to without a knowledge of the number of the tribe, in by what rule he would for the grade of each applicant for portion of the annuity, unless that was determined by a supported influence among the Indians. But the propriety of the course pointed out by the Secretary at War, we have, at present, no disposition to discuss. It is sufficient for us to know the Cherokees refused to receive their March 24.1836