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their annuities in the mode prescribed, nor were they paid to them for four years, though annual appropriation were made by Congress." This act of wanton annoyance and injustice was aggravated by the fact that it was well 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 farce grew too absurd; after four years being compelled, by illegal obstinacy to deposit the Indian annuity for safe keeping in the United States Branch Bank strikeout: 2 words to the credit of the United States, a member of Congress, at the suggestion of Mr Ross, 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 sums stipulated by treaty to be made to any Indian tribe, shall be made to the Chiefs of such tribes, or to such personas as said tribe shall appoint," &c. But the disposition to harass, would not be overcome by a healthful sense of duty or of justice. "This+ act of + letter to W Ross, March 24, 1836.