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$500,000 paid by the latter for the tract of ‘neutral land,” under the 
treaty of 1835, together with 5 per cent. interest from the date of that 
treaty, and to apply for the use and benefit of the former all moneys 
aceruing from the sale of that tract. 
6. The United States agree to ascertain the number of acres of land 
reserved and owned by the Cherokee Nation in the State of Arkansas, 
and in States east of the Mississippi River, and to pay to the Cherokees 
the appraised value thereof. 
7. The United States agree to pay all arrears of Cherokee annuities 
aceruing during the war and remaining unpaid. 
8. Citizens of the United States having become citizens of the Cher- 
okee Nation, shall not be held to answer before any court of the United 
States any further than if they were native-born Cherokees. All Cher- 
okees shall be held to answer for any offense committed among them- 
selves within the Cherokee Nation only to the courts of that nation, 
and for any offense committed without the limitsof the nation shall be 
answerable only in the courts of the United States. 
9. The post and reservation of Fort Gibson having been reoceupied 
by the United States, it is agreed that all Cherokees who purchased 
lots at the former sale of the military reserve by the Cherokee authori- 
ties, after its abandonment by the United States, shall be reimbursed 
for all losses occasioned by such military reoccupation. 
10. The United States shall continue to appoint a superintendent of 
Indian affairs for the Indian Territory and an agent for the Cherokees. 
11. A commission of three persons (two citizens of the United States 
and one Cherokee) shall be appointed to pass upon and adjudicate all 
claims of the Cherokee Nation, or its citizens, against the United States, 
or any of the several States. 
12. The powers of the agent provided for by the twenty-second arti- 
cle of the treaty of 1866 to examine the accounts of the Cherokee Na- 
tion with the United States are enlarged to include the accounts of 
individual Cherokees with the United States. 
13. All claims against the United States for Cherokee losses through 
the action of the military authorities of the United States, or from the 
neglect of the latter to afford the protection to the Cherokees guaran- 
teed by treaty stipulation, are to be examined and reported on by the 
commission appointed under the eleventh article of this treaty. 
14. Full faith and credit shall be given by the United States to the 
public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of the Cherokee Nation 
when properly authenticated. 
15. Cherokees east of the Mississippi River, who remove within three 
years to the Cherokee Nation, shall be entitled to all the privileges of 
citizens thereof. After that date they can only be admitted to citizen- 
ship by act of the Cherokee national council. 
16. Every Cherokee shall have the free right to sell, ship, or drive to 
market any of his produce, wares, or live stock without taxation by the 
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