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to the emigrants, it was not received until day before yesterday at Cantonment Gibson. Most of the emigrants complain that they have los half, more or less, and I believe it,- for it is the case with me. I saw, too, when the money was paid out to the emigrants, many were curtailed in the valuation of their improvements. And as to having the privelege of self government in the nation, the intercourse laws prohibit Cherokee Laws, - what few laws we have in the nation, - from operating against any white man living in the nation, both in civil and criminal cases. Again - the intercourse of the United States laws prohibit Cherokees from disposing of spiritouous liquors in any way whatever in the nation. And as to having protection from the United States, four Cherokees have been killed by white people on the frontiers; and not one white man has been killed as yet. And as to fulfilling the Treaty stipulations with the Cherokees in the West, I see in the treaty of 1828, that the United States is to pay to the Cherokees in the West $2,000 annually for ten years to support the schools in the nation. I saw a school at Dr M. Power's, to be supported by the money above mentioned. The school has been in operation three of four years. Not one dollar is paid as yet. The school has been carried on with borrowed money from the time the school has been in operation. And as to being out of the limits of the United States & Territories, I saw a letter from Gen: Arbuckle, commanding officer at cantonment Gibson, to Capt. Geo: Vashon, Sub-Agent, ordering him to go about 130 miles west of us, to the place called Cross Timbers, then & there to hold a General Council & Treaties with various tribes of Indians; and in this letter, even that place was stated to be in the limits of the United States. And as to having a guarantee for our lands, I have not as yet seen any guarantee, or else I do not know the meaning of the word guarantee. Well. Here I will stop for the present. Ben Curry can have a fair chance to invalidate my letters. Whenever