MuosEY] P;aST CHKKOKEK census 1848 ]()7 



ever iiianufactured an entire gun. I'.nt when it is remembereil tliat lie never received 

 a ])article of education in any of ihe nieehanic arts but is entirely self-tauglit, his 

 attainments must l)e considered truly remarkable.' 



Oil July 2!t, lS-i8, CongTcss sippi-oved iiii act foi- takiiio- a census of 

 all tho.sc Cherokco who had remained in North Carolina after the 

 Removal, and who still rcsidi'd east of the Mi.ssissippi, in order that 

 tiieir .share of liie "removal and .subsistence fund" under tli(> New 

 Echota treaty niiolit be .set aside for them. A siun e(|ui\alent to 

 $53.33i was at the same time appi'opriated for each one. or his repre- 

 sentative, to be available for defraying the expenses of his removal to 

 the Cherokee Nation west and subsistenc^e there for one year whenever 

 he should elect so to remove. Any surplus over such e.\])(>nse was tc 

 1)6 paid to him in cash after his arrival in the west. The whole amoiuit 

 thus expended was to be reimbursed to the Government from the oen- 

 eral fund to the credit of the Cherokee Nation under the terms of the 

 treaty of New Echota. In the meantime it was ordered that to each 

 individual thus entitled should lie paid the accrued interest on this per 

 capita sum from the date of the ratification of the New Echota treaty 

 (May 23, 183ti), payment of interest at the .same rate to continue 

 annually thereafter.' In accordance with this act a census of the Cher- 

 okee then residing in North Carolina. Tennessee, and Georgia, was 

 completed in th(> fall of 18-18 by J. C. Mullay, making the whole num- 

 l>er 2.133. On the basis of this enrollment several payments were 

 made to them by special agents within the next ten 3'ears, one being 

 a per-capita payment by Alfred Chapman in 1851-52 of unpaid claims 

 arising under the treaty of New Echota and amounting in the aggre- 

 gate to $197,534.50, the others being payments of the annual interest 

 upon the " removal and subsi.stence fund" set apart to their credit in 

 1848. In the accomplishment of these payments two other enrollments 

 were made by D. W. Siler in 1851 and by Chapman in 1852, the last 

 being simply a corrected revision of the Siler roll, and neither vary- 

 ing greatly from the Mullay roU.^ 



Upon the appointment of Chapman to make the per capita payment 

 above mentioned, the Cherokee Nation west had tiled a protest against 

 the payment, upon the doul)le groimd that the East Cherokee had for- 

 feited their right to participation, and furthermore that their census 

 was believed to be enormously exaggerated. As a matter of fact the 

 numi)er first reported by Mullay was only 1,517, to which so many 



1 Lanman, Letters from the Alleghany Mountains, p. 111. 



2 Sec act quoti'il in "The United Stiite.s of America r. William H. Thomas <t iil."\ also Royee. Clier- 

 okee Nation, Fifth Ann. Kep. Bureau of Ethnology, p. 313, 1.S.SK. In the earlier notices the lerm.s " North 

 Carolina Cherokee "-and " Eastern Cherokee " are used synonymously, as the original fugitives were 

 all in North Carolina. 



■iSee Koyce, of>. eit.. \ip, 313-3H; Commissioner H. Price, Report of Indian Commi.ssioner, p. li, 

 lHft4; Kefiort of Indian Commissioner, p. 4y.'i, 1898: also references by (^)mmissioner W. Me<iill, 

 Keport of Indian Commissioner, p. 399, 1848; and Report of Indian Commi.ssioner for 18-i5, p. 255, ISoti. 



