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top left margin note: Summary. if the entire sum set apart for the purposes of the treaty amounted to seven millions, fifty two thousand two hundred and five dollars in all, of which five millions, four hundred and twenty five thousand, two hundred &one dollars, twenty three and a half cents, can be accounted for, it necessarily follows that these terms of removal and subsistence alone must have consumed, besides the one million, three hundred and fifty seven thousand, seven hundred and fifty five dollars, eighty six and a half cents, to John Ross, and the eight thousand to others the further sum of the million, six hundred and twenty seven thousand and three dollars, seventy six and a half cents, there being no other mode of explaining its disappearance; unless , indeed, a clue to some portion of it should eventually be found in the thirty two thousand one hundred and thirty seven dollars and one cent, carried, contrary to the Attorney General's opinion, to the surplus fund; and in the loss by defalcation of some sixty three thousand dollars, entrusted to R. D. Collins, a Disbursing Agent. But ere I proceed, let me give a tabular summary of what I have just stated. Entire