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of a ward to his guardian. "The prayer of the Bill was, therefore, denied, & the Cherokee Tribe was left another year exposed to the encroachments strikeout: of and oppressions of its neighbors, in spite of the plain & positive stipulation of Treaties. "In addition to the countenance given strikeout: to by the General Government to these arbitrary proceedings on the part of Georgia, a change was adopted in the mode of distributing the annuity 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 strikeout: thous ten thousand dollars, were agreed to be paid annually to the Cherokee Nation, and pursuant to those stipulations the payment, hither to had been punctually made by the Government to the chieftains representing the nation, & who, in the treaties with that tribe, had been considered as the proper agents to transact business in its behalf." The