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The Annuity was continued to be paid Template:Unclear to the Treasurer of the Nation, through the United States' Agent, annually, until 1830, when Gen: Jackson directed it to be paid over to the individuals of the nation; but the people refusing to receive it in that way, from the agent (excepting those few who enrolled and emigrated to Arkansas)- thus the annuity accumulated on the hands of the Agent, and who in consequence of the Cherokees refusing to take it individually, was directed by the Department of War to place it in the United States' Branch Bank at Nashville for safe keeping until 1834, when Congress, after the repeated complaints made by the nation through its delegation, passed an act directing it to be paid over to "the chiefs or to such a person as the tribe shall direct." After this, the Agent issued a notice inviting the heads of every Cherokee family to appear at the Agency on the 1st day of 1834, to determine in what mode the annuity should be disposed of. There were 498 votes given in: all of which (except one who had enrolled for emigration) voted it to be paid into the National Treasury. After this, one would Template:Unclear that there could have been no further doubt entertained as to the sentiments of the Cherokee people in this subject; but not so; the acting Agent, Major Currey, in the course of last Spring, issued another notice inviting the people to attend at a time and place designated by himself, about 90 miles from the agency, within the charter limits of Georgia, there to determine whom the present year's annuity should be paid. The people did not attend and there was no vote taken on the subject. The General Council was then convened at Red Clay a week thereafter, and 517 of the Cherokee people signed a protest against any other disposition of this money than paying it into the