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Of late year, a A very favorite mode with the government of harassing the Cherokees, has been to with hold the annuities, [prominend] them in payment for Sunday [cefsiory of land. The Cherokees East of the Mississippi, in their ancient territory, are entitled to $ b,bbb: bb 2/3 per [aunum], Formerly their people were assembled at [specified] times and places, at the expense of the United Sates, to receive this debt paid in annuity [instalments]. But it was thought that irregularity, which checked their advanced in civilization. Hence prior to the year 1819, at the suggested the Cherokees appointed a Receiver of their [moniast], to whom, for many years, they were paid, with $1250 in addition, the estimated expense of [mbrirlty] the Indians while attending to receive their annuities of the {LW] Calhoun left the War Department, the $1280 was no longer added, but until 1830, the payment of the regular annuity proceeded in the regular way. But on the 18th of June 1830, the War Department issued the following