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

entirely, and sometimes partly, denied payment, under these various heads, in the face of the clearest evidence that their statements indisputable. 3d. That against Cherokees who were not favoured, debts were unjustly permitted to be proven by those who were, and that thus such wronged Cherokees were still further wronged. 4th. That, in certain cases, although the first clause of the ninth section of the Treaty promises "a just and fair valuation of all improvements," the Commission refused even to make such valuation, under the pretense of not having funds in hand to pay for them. 5th. That, in other cases, valuations of very extensive improvements were made without any consultation with the owners, and debts permitted to be proven

against them, both manifestly unfair, and

that, instances occurred where the owners of improvements thus under-rated, being under duress, although they from necessity took the balance awarded after the deduction from of unjust claims for pretended debt, felt if due to themselves and their families and their country to accompany the reception with a protest. 6th. That there was gross collusion