ROYCE. ] SUPPLEMENTAI, TREATY OF DECEMBER 29, 1335. 257 
Georgia, provided the United States or State of Georgia has derived 
benefit therefrom without having made payment therefor. 
This article was inserted by unanimous request of the Cherokee com- 
mittee after the signing of the treaty, it being understood that its rejec- 
tion by the Senate of the United States should not impair any other 
article of the treaty. 
On the 31st of December, 1835, James Rogers and John Smith, as 
delegates from the Western Cherokees, signed an agreement which is 
attached to the treaty wherein they agreed to its provisions on behalf 
of the Western Cherokees, with the proviso that it should not affect 
any claims of the latter against the United States. 
SUPPLEMENTARY ARTICLES TO FOREGOING TREATY, CONCLUDED 
MARCH 1, 1836; PROCLAIMED MAY 23, 1836.! 
Agreed on between John F. Schermerhorn, commissioner on the part of the 
United States, and the committee duly authorized at a general council held 
at New Echota, Georgia, to act for and on behalf of the Cherokee people. 
MATERIAL PROVISIONS, 
These articles were concluded as supplementary to the treaty of De- 
cember 29, 1835, and were ratified at the same time and as a part of 
that treaty. They were rendered necessary by the determination of 
President Jackson not to allow any pre-emptions or reservations, his de- 
sire being that the whole Cherokee people should remove together to 
the country west of the Mississippi. 
1. All pre-emption rights and reservations provided for in articles 12 
and 15 are declared void. 
2. The Cherokees having supposed that the sum of $5,000,000, fixed 
as the value of Cherokee lands, did not include the amount required to 
remove them, nor the value of certain claims held by them against citi- 
zens of the United States, and the President being willing that the sub- 
ject should be referred to the Senate of the United States for any further 
provision that body should deem just, 
3. It is agreed, should it receive the concurrence of that body, to allow 
the Cherokees the sum of $600,000, to include the expenses of removal 
and all claims against the United States not otherwise specifically pro- 
vided for, and to be in lieu of the aforesaid reservations and pre-emp- 
tions and of the $300,000 for spoliations provided in article 1 of the 
original treaty to which this is supplementary. This sum of $600,000 
shall be applied and distributed agreeably to the provisions of said 
treaty, the surplus, if any, to belong to the education fund. 
4. The provision of article 16 concerning the agency reservations is 
not intended to interfere with the occupant right of any Cherokees 
whose improvements may fall within the same. 

‘ United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 488. 
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