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United States, and to provide one year's subsistence for them after reaching the west; or to furnish those who prefer it, with a certain sum to remove themselves and to supply their own subsistence for the first year in their new home.

    The reservations under former treaties, & now given up to the United States, are provided for, but apart from any appropriations to carry out the present treaty.
    For spoliation claims of individuals, at first three hundred thousand dollars are designated; -- but that sum is afterwards merged in an estimate of six hundred thousand dollars, which are appropriated to cover all claims of every nature & description, including removal, not otherwise expressly provided for elsewhere in the treaty; to which six hundred thousand dollars, one million & forty seven thousand & sixty seven dollars, are afterwards added, entirely to close every demand under every claim contemplated in the previous allowance of six hundred thousand; besides contributing towards the cost of one year's subsistence west. A further sum of one hundred thousand dollars, however, was allowed by congress for facilitating the Cherokee removal, & for averages of annuities. About twenty five thousand dollars of this amount having been known for the arrearages of annuities, the remaining seventy five thousand dollars, make the entire fund for the claims of individuals, one million seven hundred & twenty thousand 
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