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of a ward to his guardian. "The prayer of the Bill was, therefore denied, and the Cherokee Tribe was left another year exposed to the encroachments and oppressions of its neighbors, in spite of the plain and positive stipulation of treaties. "In addition to the countenance given by the General Government to these arbitrary proceedings on the part of Georgia, a change was adopted in the mode of distributing the amity stipulated to be paid to the Cherokee Tribe, with the view of depriving them of the means of legally resisting the encroachments upon their territory. "By the treaties between the United States and that tribe certain sums of money, amounting in the whole to ten thousand dollars, were agreed to be paid annually to the Cherokee Nation, and [unclear] to those stipulations the payment, hither to had been punctually made by the Government to the chieftains representing the nation, and who, in the treaties with that tribe, had been considered as the proper agents to transfact [unclear] in its behalf." The