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“(With interest from January I, 1874, to
date of payment.)
“Under act of Congress, March 3, 1893:
“Interest on $15,000 of Choctaw funds ap-
plied in 1863 to relief of indigent Cherokees,
said interest being improperly charged to
Cherokee national fund ........-++++e++: 20,406.25
“(With interest from July 1, 1893, to date of
restoration of the principal of the Cherokee
funds, held in trust in lieu of investments. )”
Washington, D. C., April 28, 1894.
(Signed) : iy, Jas. A. SLADE.
| Jos. T. BENDER.

3. The Award

Or finding of the Special Commission, Messrs. James A.
Slade and Joseph T. Bender, or special accountants as they
were called, appointed by the Secretary of the Interior unde::
the act of March 3, 1893 (27 Stat. L. pp. 612, 643 p. 10) by
which Congress appropriated $5,000 for the making of said
accounting was the result of previous negotiations between the
United States and the Cherokee Nation in which the United
States were intent upon the purchase of the Cherokee Outlet,
or Oklahoma Strip from the Indians, known as

4. The Cherokee Agreement.

“In making the settlement of 1851 the accounting officers of
the Government charged against the Cherokee five-million-
dollar trust fund the sum of $1,111,284.70 on account of re-
moval expenses. The appropriations made by Congress July
2, 1836, of $600,000, and of June 12, 1838, of $1,047,067 were
made primarily to meet the expenses of removing the Chero-
kees to the Indian Territory. | tsa Sh
yew be Court of Claims finds, as a matter of fact, that only
$382,201.22 was paid from the amount appropriated for re-
movals ($1,647,067) by the act of July 2, 1836, and June 12,
1838, while the greater part of the expenses of removing the
Eastern Cherokees, to wit, $1,111,284.70, was, in fact, charged
against the five-million-dollar trust fund. Congress, in- the-act