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of the interest on some of them, - would not discourage such an impression.

Obligations to the nation collectively.

    That they have not proved the most productive is very evident; since but $64,761:39 of the whole, yields six per cent; and on the par value of $708,761:39 there was a premium paid of $5,238:61.
    The annual interest of this investment if $36,085:68. - It appears that in 1841, the Treasurer of the Cherokee Nation, received $13,206:09 of interest from the Treasury of the United States; but I cannot learn that any thing more was ever obtained thence; or is to be found upon the books, to the credit of the Cherokees. Can it be, that the balance of this interest is in existence, & has never reached the Treasury? -- If so, under what authority have the laws regarding the disposition of public monies been dispersed with? In whose hands does the sum in question remain? And is it by itself in such hands, or with other funds similarly situated; -- and what are they? and by what means can they be traced? and what check can those to whom they belong obtain upon their management?
    These various points, perhaps, may not eventually ill repay enquiry. At any rate, an answer might be desirable, were it but to silence doubt. 
    The twenty five thousand dollars of arrearages for annuities appears to have been paid on the 25th of June, 1838, at the office of
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