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1st. Indemnification to the Indians for their country, their individual claims to improvements, spoliations & reservations and for their removal & subsistence, viz: 1st. Amount of the consideration for the territory east deducting $500,000 allowed to the Indians for the additional tract west, provided for them by 3d clauses of 2d article $ 4:500:000:00 2d. Amount stipulated by 3d supplementary article for spoliations, reservations, and other claims, & for removal & subsistence 600:000:00 3d. Appropriated by act of June 12th 1838, in full of all objects stipulated in 3d supplementary article, and to aid in the subsistence of the Indians one year west 1,047:067:00 total: $6,147:067:00 2d. Debts under former treaties. 1st. Amount stipulated by Art: 11: in lieu of permanent annuity of $10,000 $214:000:00 2d. arrearages of annuities provided for by 3d. Sect. Act June 12:38, say -- 25:000:00 total: $239,000 : 00 3d. Gratuitous 1st. Portion of $100,000, provided by 3d. section of act of June 12th , 1838, for blankets & clothing & for medicines, medical assistance &c. -- $75,000 : 00 4th: Miscellaneous. 1st. For extinguishing titles to reservation within the country allotted to the Cherokees West, given to certain Osage Indians by treaty of 1825 -- $15.000:00 2d. value of improvements on the Union & Harmony Missionary Reservations, to be paid to American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions 25,000:00 total: $40,000:00 Aggregate $6,501,067 : 00 Of the amount under the first head the treaty required $300,000 to be invested as a national fund, 150,000 as a school fund & $50,000 for the support & education of orphans, making in all $500,000:00 (This and the $214,000, for which the permanent annuity of $10,000 was commuted, (see second head first item) have been invested in 5 & 6 percent stocks, the par value of which is 708,761:39 Of the amount under this head these will be absorbed for claims for improvement, adjudicated and allowed by the Commissioners 1,683,192:77 Do: Spoliations 416,306:82 " National debts due citizens of the United States 51,642:25 " National debts due individual Cherokees 19,058:14 " Claims to reservations 159,324:87 total: 2,329,524:85 Showing