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their present annuities, for a general national fund; $50,000 for an or- 
phans’ fund; $150,000, in addition to existing school fund, for a perma- 
nent national school fund: the disbursement of the interest on the fore- 
going funds to be subject to examination and any misapplicatious thereof 
to be corrected by the President of the United States. 
On two years’ notice the Cherokee council may withdraw their funds, 
by the consent of the President and the United States Senate, and invest 
them in such manner as they deem proper. The United States agree to 
appropriate $60,000 to pay the just debts and claims against the Cher- 
okee Nation held by citizens of the same, and also claims of citizens of 
the United States for services rendered the nation. Three hundred 
thousand dollars is appropriated by the United States to liquidate Cher- 
okee claims against the United States for spoliations of every kind. 
11. The Cherokees agree to commute their existing permanent annuu- 
ity of $10,000 for the sum of $214,000, the same to be invested by the 
President as a part of the general fund of the nation. Their present 
school fund shall also constitute a portion of the permanent national 
school fund. 
12. Such Cherokees as are averse to removal west of the Mississippi 
and desire to become citizens of the States where they reside, if qualified 
to take care of themselves and their property, shall receive their pro- 
portion of all the personal benefits accruing under this treaty for claims, 
improvements, and per capita. 
Such heads of Cherokee families as desire to reside within the States 
of North Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama, subject to the laws thereof 
and qualified to become useful citizens, shall be entitled to a pre-emption 
right of 160 acres at the minimum Congress price, to include their im- 
provements. John Ross and eleven others named are designated as a 
committee on the part of the Cherokees to recommend persons entitled 
to take pre-emption rights, to select the missionaries who shall be 
removed with the nation, and to transact all business that may arise 
with the United States in carrying the treaty into effect. One hundred 
thousand dollars shall be expended by the United States for the bene- 
fit of such of the poorer classes of Cherokees as shall remove west. 
13. All Cherokees and their heirs to whom reservations had been 
made by any previous treaty, and who had not sold or disposed of the 
same, such reservations being subsequently sold by the United States 
should be entitled to receive the present value thereof from the United 
States as unimproved lands. All such reservations not sold were to 
be confirmed to the reservees or their heirs. All persons entitled to 
reservations under treaty of 1817, whose reservations, as selected, were 
included by the treaty of 1819 in the unceded lands of the Cherokee 
Nation, shall be entitled to a grant for the same. All reservees who 
were obliged by the laws of the States in which their reservations were 
situated to abandon the same or purchase them from the States, shall 
be deemed to have a just claim against the United States for the value 
