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Article 9. The United States agree to appoint 1835 suitable agents who shall make a just and fair valuation of all such improvements now in the possession of the Cherokees as add any value to the lands; and also of he ferries owned by them, according to their nett come; and such improvements and ferries from which hey have been dispossessed in a lawless manner or nder any existing laws of the State where the same ay be situated.

The just debts of the Indians shall be paid out any moneys due them for their improvements and aims; and they shall also be furnished at the discreon of the President of the United States with a sufHent sum to enable them to obtain the necessary eans to remove themselves to their new homes and e balance of their dues shall be paid them at the herokee agency west of the Mississippi. The misonary establishments shall also be valued and appraised a like manner and the amount of them paid over the United States to the treasurers of the respective issionary societies by whom they have been established d improved in order to enable them to erect such ildings and make such improvements among the herokees west of the Mississippi as they may deem cessary for their benefit. Such teachers at present hong the Cherokees as this council shall select and signate shall be removed west of the Mississippi with e Cherokee nation and on the same terms allowed them.

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Article 10. The President of the United States all invest in some safe and most productive public Docks of the country for the benefit of the whole herokee nation, who have removed or shall remove the lands assigned by this treaty to the Cherokee ation west of the Mississippi the following sums as a permanent fund for the purpose hereinafter specified and pay over the nett income of the same annually to uch person or persons as shall be authorized or apointed by the Cherokee nation to receive the same nd their receipt shall be a full discharge for the mount paid to them viz: the sum of two hundred housand dollars in addition to the present annuities of the nation to constitute a general fund the interest of which shall be applied annually by the council of the

1835 nation to such purposes as they may deem best for the general interest of their people. The sum of fifty thousand dollars to constitute an orphan's fund the annual income of which shall be expended towards the support and education of such orphan children as are destitute of the means of subsistence. The sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in addition to the present school fund of the nation shall constitute a permanent school fund, the interest of which shal be applied annually by the council of the nation for the support of common schools and such a litera institution of a higher order as may be established the Indian country. And in order to secure as far a possible the true and beneficial application of the orphans and school fund the council of the Cherokee nation, when required by the President of the United States shall make a report of the application of those funds and he shall at all times, have the right, if the funds have been misapplied to correct any abuses them and direct the manner of their application for the purposes for which they were intended. Th council of the nation may by giving two year's notic of their intention withdraw their funds by and with the consent of the President and Senate of the Unite States, and invest them in such manner as they may deem most proper for their interest. The United State also agree and stipulate to pay the just debts and claims against the Cherokee nation held by the citizen of the same and also the just claims of citizens of the United States for services rendered to the nation an the sum of sixty thousand dollars is appropriated fo this purpose but no claims against individual person of the nation shall be allowed and paid by the nation The sum of three hundred thousand dollars is hereby set apart to pay and liquidate the just claims of the Cherokees upon the United States for spoliations every kind, that have not been already satisfied under former treaties.

Article 11. The Cherokee nation of Indians believing it will be for the interest of their people to have all their funds and annuities under their own direction and future disposition hereby agree to commute their permanent annuity of ten thousand dollars for the sum of two hundred and fourteen thousand dollars, the

same to be invested by the President of the United 1835 States, as a part of the general fund of the nation; nd their present school fund amounting to about fifty housand dollars shall constitute a part of the peranent fund of the nation.

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Article 12. Those individuals and families of the herokee nation that are averse to a removal to the herokee country west of the Mississippi and are sirous to become citizens of the States where they side and such as are qualified to take care of themlves and their property shall be entitled to receive eir due portion of all the personal benefits accruing der this treaty for their claims, improvements and capita; as soon as an appropriation is made for is treaty.

Such heads of Cherokee families as are desirous to ide within the States of North Carolina, Tennessee, d Alabama subject to the laws of the same; and o are qualified or calculated to become useful citins shall be entitled, on the certificate of the comssioners to a pre-emption right to one hundred and ty acres of lands or one quarter section at the nimum Congress price; so as to include the present ildings or improvements of those who now reside ere and such as do not live there at present shall permitted to locate within two years any lands not eady occupied by persons entitled to pre-emption vilege under this treaty and if two or more families e on the same quarter section and they desire to ntinue their residence in these States and are qua ed as above specified, they shall, on receiving their e-emption certificate be entitled to the right of preaption to such lands as they may select not already ken by any person entitled to them under this treaty. It is stipulated and agreed between the United tates and the Cherokee people that John Ross, James tarr, George Hicks, John Gunter, George Chamers, John Ridge, Elias Boudinot, George Sanders, ohn Martin, William Rogers, Roman Nose, Situwake nd John Timpson, shall be a committee on the part f the Cherokees to recommend such persons for the rivilege of pre-emption rights as may be deemed ntitled to the same under the above articles and to elect the missionaries who shall be removed with the

1835 nation; and that they be hereby fully empowered and authorized to transact all business on the part of the Indians which may arise in carrying into effect the provisions of this treaty and settling the same wit the United States. If any of the persons above men tioned should decline acting or be removed by death the vacancies shall be filled by the committee themselve It is also understood and agreed that the sum one hundred thousand dollars shall be expended b the commissioners in such manner as the committee dee best for the benefit of the poorer class of Cherokees a shall remove west or have removed west and are entitle to the benefits of this treaty.、 The same to be delivere at the Cherokee agency west as soon after the remo val of the nation as possible.

Art. 13. In order to make a final settlement all the claims of the Cherokees for reservations granted under former treaties to any individuals belonging the nation by the United States it is therefore hereby stipulated and agreed and expressly understood by the parties to this treaty that all the Cherokees and the heirs and descendants to whom any reservations ha been made under any former treaties with the Unite States and who have not sold or conveyed the same deed or otherwise and who in the opinion of the co missioners have complied with the terms on which reservations were granted as far as practicable in t several cases; and which reservations have since be sold by the United States shall constitute a just cla against the United States and the original reservee their heirs or descendants shall be entitled to recei the present value thereof from the United States unimproved lands. And all such reservations as har not been sold by the United States and where terms on which the reservations were made in the op nion of the commissioners have been complied with far as practicable, they or their heirs or descendan shall be entitled to the same. They are hereb granted and confirmed to them and also all person who were entitled to reservations under the treat of 1817 and who as far as practicable in the op nion of the commissioners have complied with the stipulations of said treaty, although by the treaty 1819 such reservations were included in the unce

led lands belonging to the Cherokee nation as hereby 1835
onfirmed to them and they shall be entitled to receive
grant for the same. And all such reservees as were
bliged by the laws of the States in which their re-
rvations situated to abandon the same or, purchase
em from the States shall be demed to have a just
aim against the United States for the amount by.
em paid to the States with interest thereon for such
servations and if 'obliged to abandon the same, to
e present value of such reservations as unimproved
ads but in all cases where the reservees have sold
eir reservations or any part thereof and, conveyed
same by deed or otherwise and have been paid
the same, they, their heirs or descendants or their
igns shall not be considered as having any claims
on the United States under this article of the treaty
rbe entitled to receive any compensation for the
ads thus disposed of. It is expressly understood by
e parties to this treaty that the amount to be al-
ved for reservations under this article shall not be de-
cted out of the consideration money allowed to the
erokees for their claims for spoliations and the ces-
n of their lands; but the same is to be paid for in-
pendently by the United States as it is only a just
fillment of former treaty stipulations.

Article 14. It is also agreed on the part of the ited States that such warriors of the Cherokee nan as were engaged on the side of the United Stain the late war with Great Britain and the souern tribes of Indians, and who were wounded in such rvice shall be entitled to such pensions as shall be lowed them by the Congress of the United States commence from the period of their disability.

Article 15. It is expressly understood and agreed etween the parties to this treaty that after deducting le amount which shall be actually expended for the ayment for improvements, ferries, claims, for spoliaons, removal subsistence and debts and claims upon he Cherokee nation and for the additional quantity of inds and goods for the poorer class of Cherokees and he several sums to be invested for the general national unds provided for in the several articles of this treaty the balance whatever the same may be, shall be equally divided between all the people belonging to the Cherokee

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