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the National Treasury, as had been decided last fall, and also Maj: Currey was requested to meet this determination of the people. He paid no attention to it, but issued another notice, requesting the attendance of the people at the same place he had before designated on the Monday in July last, to determine to whom the present year's annuity shall be paid; and stating, at the same time, that it will be paid agreeably to the votes o the majority persons there attending. Upon this the people turned out and there were 2235 votes given in for paying it over to the National Treasurer, and 114 against it. Although under existing treaties the United States are found to supply this people with rations when assembled for the purpose of receiving their annuity, more was furnished then at the two meetings thus forced them by the Agents, but they attended on their own private expenses. I have thought proper to state these facts upon the subject of the annuity, in reply to what has been said by Mr Schermerhorn. The people did not refuse to receive the annuity offered them by order of the President from any fear of "being whipped with one hundred strikes on their bare backs," as there was no existing cause to induce them to apprehend the Template:Unclear of such punishment from the hands of any one, especially in the absence of all law to authorize it. No. They were influenced by their own sense of prosperity, under a full knowledge of their individual rights, and the common interest of their nation. It required no bravery to take the money under the protection offered them by the agents, under the power of the General Government, but they refused to accept it from an honest feeling of patriotism towards their native country. In the next place, Mr Schermerhorn has thought proper to change this Committee with absorbing the whole of the annuity for their own