300 CHEROKEE NATION OF INDIANS. 
possessed of salines, the same being their private property, shall be 
compensated therefor by the Cherokee Nation, upon an award to be 
made by the United States agent and a Cherokee commissioner, or the 
salines shall be returned to the respective owners. 
8. The United States agree to pay the Cherokee Nation $2,000 for a 
printing press, ete., destroyed; $5,000 to be equally divided among all 
whose arms were taken from them previous to their removal West by 
order of an officer of the United States, and $20,000 in lieu of all claims 
of the Cherokee Nation, as a nation, prior to the treaty of 1835, except 
lands reserved for school funds. 
9. The United States agree to make a fair and just settlement of all 
moneys due to the Cherokees and subject to the per capita division 
under the treaty of December 29,1835. This settlement to embrace all 
sums properly expended or charged to the Cherokees under the provis- 
ions of said treaty, and which sums shall be deducted from the sum of 
$6,647,067. The balance found due to be distributed per capita among 
those entitled to receive the same under the treaty of 1835 and supple- 
ment of 1836, being those residing east of the Mississippi River at that 
date. 
10. Nothing herein shall abridge or take away any rights or claims 
which the Cherokees now residing in States east of the Mississippi 
River had or may have under the treaty of 1835 and supplement of 1836. 
11. It is agreed that the Senate of the United States shall determine 
whether the amount expended for one year’s subsistence of the Chero- 
kees, after their removal under the treaty of 1835 and supplement of 
1836, is properly chargeable to the United States or to the Cherokee 
funds, and, if to the latter, whether such subsistence shall be charged 
at a sum greater’ than $334 per head; also, whether the Cherokees shall 
be allowed interest upon the sums found to be due them: and, if so, 
from what date and at what rate. : 
12. (The twelfth article was struck out by the Senate.) 
13. This treaty to be obligatory after ratification by the Senate and 
President of the United States. 
HISTORICAL DATA. 
CHEROKEES DESIRE A NEW TREATY. 
In the spring of 1844 a delegation headed by John Ross arrived in 
Washington. In a communication! to the Secretary of War they in- 
closed a copy of a letter addressed to them by President Tyler on the 
20th of September, 1841, previously alluded to, promising them a new 
treaty to settle all disputes arising under the treaty of 1835. They ad- 
vised the Secretary of their readiness to enter upon the negotiation of 


*May 30, 1844. 
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