312 CHEROKEE NATION OF INDIANS. 
added to the balance of $724,603.37 found due in pursuance of the 
report of the accounting officers of the Treasury,' amounted in the ag- 
gregate to $914,626.13. 
The item of $189,422.76 was appropriated, as previously stated, by 
the act of September 30, 1850, and that of $724,603.37 by the act of 
February 27, 1851. Interest was allowed on each sum at the rate of 
5 per cent. per annum from the date of the act of June 12, 1838, with 
the understanding that it should be in full satisfaction and a final set- 
tlement of all claims and demands whatsoever of the Cherokee Nation 
against the United States under any treaty theretofore made with 
them. Instructions were issued? in the fall of 1851 to John Drennan, 
superintendent of Indian affairs, to proceed without delay to make 
the payment. For this purpose a remittance was made to him at New 
Crleans of the sums of $1,032,182.33 and $276,179.84. The first of 
these sums, he was advised by his instructions, was intended for the 
per capita payment, principal and interest, to the Kastern Cherokees, 
or Ross party, in pursuance of the act of February 27, 1851. The 
latter was for a similar payment to the same parties in compliance with 
the terms of the act of September 30, 1850, previously mentioned. 
These sums were to be distributed, according to the census roll, among 
14,093 Cherokees within his superintendency, and were exclusive of the 
pro rata share to which those Cherokees east of the Mississippi living 
within the States of North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Alabama 
were entitled. For the payment of the latter a clerk was detailed from 
duty in the Office of Indian Affairs to act in the capacity of a special 
disbursing agent. 
The payments made by Superintendent Drennan, coupled with the 
conditions prescribed by the act of Congress, were very unsatisfactory 
to the Government or Ross party of Cherokees. Therefore their 
national council addressed? to the United States a solemn and formal 
protest against the injustice they had suffered through the treaties of 
1835 and 1846, and the statement of account rendered by the United 
States under the provisions of those treaties.t After thus placing 

1 See report of Second Auditor and Second Comptroller to Congress, December 3, 
1849. 
2November 17, 1851. 
8 November 29, 1851. 
4 After reciting in detail the ‘‘ forced” circumstances through which those treaties 
were brought about, they declared — 
1. That no adequate allowance had been made for the sums taken from the treaty 
fund of 1835 for removal; that though an appropriation had been made, the esti- 
mates upon which it was based were too small, and the balance was taken out of the 
Indian fund. 
2. That if allowable in any sense, the Government had no right to take from the 
Cherokee fund an expense for removal greater than the limit fixed by the eighth 
article of the treaty of 1835. 
3. That the alternative of receiving for subsistence $33.33, as provided for in the 
