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their annuities in the [inode] prescribed, or were they paid to them for four years, though annual appropriation were made by Congress". This act [wanton] annoyance and [inpestice]was aggrivated by the fact that it was wass known the receiver of the former annuities was still at his past, the accredited Treasurer of the Nation, in whom its confidence was known to continue unshaken. Finding that this force grew absurd; after four years being compelled, by illegal obstinacy to [descat] the Indian annuity for safe keeping in the United States Branch Bank to the credit of the United States, a member of Congress, at the [inssestion] of W Rofs, moved a new law upon the subject, which was passed on the 30th of June, 1834. By this act it as provided" that the payment of all annuities, or other sumstipulation by treaty to be made to any Indian tribe, shall be made to the Chiefs of such tribes, or to such personas said tribe shall appointed, "&. But the disposition to harass, would not be overcome by a healthful sense of duty or of justice. "This act of X letter to W Rofs, March 24, 1836.