340 CHEROKEE NATION OF INDIANS. 
29, The United States agree to pay out of the proceeds of sale of 
Cherokee lands $10,000, or so much thereofas may be necessary, to defray 
the expenses of the Cherokee delegates and representatives invited to 
Washington by the United States to conclude this treaty, and also to 
pay the reasonable costs and expenses of the delegates of the Southern 
Cherokees. 
30. The United States agree to pay not exceeding $20,000 to cover 
losses sustained by missionaries or missionary societies, in being driven 
from the Cherokee country by United States agents and on account 
of property taken and destroyed by United States troops. 
31. All provisions of former treaties not inconsistent with this treaty 
shall continue in force; and nothing herein shall be construed as an 
acknowledgment by the United States or as a relinquishment by the 
Cherokee Nation of any claims or demands under the guarantees of 
former treaties, except as herein expressly provided. 
TREATY CONCLUDED APRIL 27, 1868; PROCLAIMED JUNE to, 1868.! 
Held at Washington, D. C., between Nathaniel G. Taylor, commissioner 
on the part of the United States, and the duly authorized delegates of the 
Cherokee Nation. 
MATERIAL PROVISIONS. 
This treaty is concluded as a supplemental article to the treaty of 
July 19, 1866. ; 
After reciting that a contract was entered into August 30, 1866, 
for the sale of the Cherokee neutral land, between James Harlan, Sec- 
retary of the Interior, and the American Emigrant Company; that 
such contract had been annulled as illegal by O. H. Browning, as Sec- 
retary of the Interior, who in turn entered into a contract of sale 
October 9, 1867, with James F. Joy, for the same lands, it is agreed by 
this treaty, in order to prevent litigation and to harmonize conflicting 
interests, as follows, viz: An assignment of the contract of August 
30, 1866, with the American Emigrant Company shall be made to James 
F. Joy. Said contract as hereinafter modified is reaffirmed and de- 
clared valid. The contract with James F. Joy of October 9, 1867, shall 
be relinquished and canceled by said Joy or his attorney. The said 
first contract, as hereinafter modified, and the assignment thereof, to- 
gether with the relinquishment of the second contract, are hereby rati- 
fied and confirmed whenever such assignment and relinquishment shall 
be entered of record in the Department of the Interior, and when said 
Joy shall have accepted such assignment and entered into contract to 
perform all the obligations of the American Emigrant Company under 
said first contract as hereinafter modified. 
The modifications of said contract are declared to be: 
1. Within ten days from the ratification of this treaty, $75,000 shall 

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