306 CHEROKEE NATION OF INDIANS. 
resolution of August 7, 1848, required the proper accounting officers of 
the Treasury to make a just and fair statement of account with the 
Cherokee Nation upon that basis. The joint report of the Second Comp- 
troller and Second Auditor was submitted to Congress? after a full and 
thorough examination of all the accounts and vouchers of the several 
officers and agents of the United States who had disbursed funds ap- 
propriated to carry into effect the treaty of 1835, and also of all claims 
that had been admitted at the Treasury. 
The result of this examination showed that there had been paid— 
OL 1MpProviements ma ones cts crema ey staetetelaeateetate eeee eer $1, 540, 572 27 
For ferries cccas cen sca woesGe sas Seo eeeneeee Sasueees outa ek oes 159, 572 12 
Por spoliations2-aa-.2= ese = mclaren ae eee ene tants 264,894 09 
For removal and subsistence and commutation therefor, including 
$2,765.84 expended for goods for the poorer Cherokees under the fif- 
teenth article of treaty of 1835, and including also necessary inci- 
dental expenses of enrolling agents, conductors, commissioners, medi- 


callattendance, and supplies: 6tt)s--c-- oe eee see ere 2,952, 196 26 
For debts and claims upon the Cherokee Nation... --....--..----.---- 101, 348 31 
For the additional quantity of land ceded to the nation....--.-..---- 500, 000 00 
For amount invested as the general fund of the nation..--.. ........- 500, 880 00 
Thevaggregate of whichisumsisjee. eee el meee =e ole ee 6, 019, 463 05 
which, being deducted from the'sum of ------ -----.--5 22. 2-2 -o.5 a 6, 647, 067 00 


agreeably to the directions of the ninth article of the treaty of 1846, 
left a balance due the Cherokee Nation of..--...-....----.--------- 627,603 95 
They also reported that there was a further sum of $96,999.31, charged 
to the general treaty fund, which had been paid to the various agents 
of the Government connected with the removal of the Indians and 
which the Cherokees contended was an improper charge upon their 
fund. The facts as to this item were submitted by the Auditor and 
Comptroller without recommendation for the decision of the question 
by Congress, and Congress, admitting the justice of the Cherokee claim, 
included this sum in the subsequent appropriation of February 27, 
1851.3 
It was also resolved * by the United States Senate (as umpire under 
the treaty of 1846) that the Cherokee Nation was entitled to the sum 
of $189,422.76 for subsistence, being the difference between the amount 
allowed by act of June 12, 1538, and the amount actually paid and ex- 
pended by the United States, and which excess was improperly charged 
to the treaty fund in the report of the accounting officers of the Treasury 
just recited. It was further resolved that interest at 5 per cent. should 
be allowed upon the sums found due the Eastern and Western Cherokees 
respectively from June 12, 1838. The amount of this award was made 


1 United States Statutes at Large, Vol. IX, p. 339. 
2 December 3, 1849. 
’ United States Statutes at Large, Vol. IX, p. 572. 
4September 5, 1850. 
