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follows __ And whereas by the several words scratched out treaties of United States with the Osage Indians, the Union & Harmony Missionary Stations which were established for the benefit of the Osage Indians are now situated within the country ceded by them to the United States, the former being situated in the Cherokee country & the latter in the State of Missouri, it is therefore agreed that the United States shall pay to the American board of Five lines scratched out

      The next article begins from the 11th article of Ridge, and after copying 52-1/2 lines ends at words scratched out "proper for their interest," words scratched out but always leaving the forms of money mentioned blank. -- It then insists "the form of $ is also hereby appropriated to pay the debts of the Cherokee Nation" ___ and their proceeds to Art. 13 of Ridge, as far as "76 cents" & then departs from it by the following line, which ends the present article of the Miss. treaty "shall constitute a part of the above general school fund of the nation." 
     Article. The claims of every kind of the Cherokee people upon the United States for spoliations since the Treaty of 1819 & for reservations, under former treaties, word scratched out shall be examined & decided upon by the United States' Commissioners  to treat with the Cherokee East, & who have concluded this Treaty; & their decision shall be final; and on their certificate of the amount due, the several claimants shall be paid by the United States; -- and it is expressly understood & agreed between the parties to this treaty, that all the Cherokees & their defendants to whom reservations have been made under former treaties with the United States & who have not sold & conveyed away the same by deed or otherwise & who have complied with the stipulations of fair treaties as far as practicable; & which reservations have been since sold by the States in which they were situated, or by the United States, shall be considered as just claims against the US. & be entitled to receive the value thereof as unimproved land & all such reservations as have not been sold by the United States when the stipulations of the -lined out treaties have been complied with by the Reserves as far as practicable, or  they as their heirs & descendants shall be emitted to the same; and it is hereby agreed that the same be granted & confirmed to them, and also all persons who were entitled to reservations under the treaty