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thereof or for the amount paid therefor, with interest. The amount 
allowed for reservations under this article is to be paid independently, 
and not out of the consideration allowed to the Cherokees for spolia- 
tion claims and their cession of lands. 
14. Cherokee warriors wounded in the service of the United States 
during the late war with Great Britain and the southern tribes of In- 
dians shall be allowed such pensions as Congress shall provide. 
15. The balance of the consideration herein stated, after deducting 
the amount actually expended for improvements, ferries, claims, spolia- 
tions, removal, subsistence, debts, and claims upon the Cherokee Nation, 
additional quantity of lands, goods for the poorer class of Cherokees, 
and the several sums to be invested for the general national funds, shall 
be divided equally among all the people belonging to the Cherokee Na- 
tion east, according to the census just completed. Certain Cherokees 
who had removed west since June, 1833, were to be paid for their im- 
provements. ; 
16. The Cherokees stipulate to remove west within two years from 
the ratification of this treaty, during which time the United States shall 
protect them in the possession and enjoyment of their property, and in 
case of failure to do so shall pay all losses and damages sustained by 
them in consequence thereof. 
The United States and the several States interested in the Cherokee 
lands shallimmediately proceed to survey the lands ceded by this treaty, 
but the agency buildings and tract of land surveyed and laid off for the 
use of Col. R. J. Meigs, Indian agent, shall continue subject to the con- 
trol of the United States or such agent as may be specially engaged in 
superintending the removal of the tribe. 
17. All claims arising under or provided for in this treaty shall be 
examined and adjudicated by General William Carroll and John F. 
Schermerhorn, or by such commissioners as shall be appointed by the 
President of the United States for that purpose, and their decision 
shall be final, and the several claimants shall be paid on their certificate 
by the United States. All stipulations of former treaties not super- 
seded or annulled by this treaty shall continue in force. 
18. The annuities of the nation which may accrue during the next 
two years preceding their removal shall, on account of the failure of 
crops, be expended in provision and clothing for the benefit of the poorer 
classes of the nation as soon after the ratification of this treaty as an 
appropriation shall be made. No interference is, however, intended 
with that part of the annuities due the Cherokees west under the treaty 
of 1819. 
19. This treaty is to be obligatory after ratification. 
20. The United States guarantee the payment of all unpaid just 
claims upon the Indians, without expense to them, out of the proper 
funds of the United States for the settlement of which a cession or ces- 
sions of land has or have been heretofore made by the Indians in 
