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top left margin headnote: obligations to individuals - first branch - commission under the 17th article collusion on the part of the commission with certain attornies, who could covertly carry any demand, in the name of any Cherokee, even though before rejected by the same commission; and that attornies so favoured realized immense profits from this partiality, and often pocketed for themselves, what they had recovered in the name of the Indians. 7th: That other attornies, more honest and disinterested, but not in favor with the commissioners, could not obtain attention to any claim for the Indians, no matter how clearly just. It has been asked, supposing all these imputations to be deserved, what is the use of complaining about them now? The treaty made the decisions of the Commission final. No right survives to look into its proceedings. If they have been wrong, there can be no remedy. To this it may be answered, a vast number of Cherokees yet remain unpaid. Their claims are still good against the United States. It has been asserted that in North Carolina and its vicinity these have been estimated even yet to exceed a million; and these are not all. None of them can be adjudicated, so says the seventeenth article, excepting under a revival of the Commission there