[Footnote 504: December 3, 1849.] [Footnote 505: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. IX, p. 572.] [Footnote 506: September 5, 1850.] [Footnote 507: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. IX, p. 556.] [Footnote 508: Ibid., p. 871.] [Footnote 509: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 156.] [Footnote 510: Ibid., p. 195.] [Footnote 511: Ibid., p. 311.] [Footnote 512: Ibid., p. 478.] [Footnote 513: Ibid., p. 414.] [Footnote 514: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. IX, p. 556.] [Footnote 515: September 22, 1851.] [Footnote 516: November 22, 1875.] [Footnote 517: April 28, 1877, November 20, 1880, November 17, 1881, and October 13, 1882.] [Footnote 518: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. XXII, p. 328.] [Footnote 519: January 31, 1883.] [Footnote 520: See Senate Executive Document No. 14, Forty-Eighth Congress, 1st session.] [Footnote 521: March 16, 1835.] [Footnote 522: Letter of John Mason, Jr. to Secretary of War, September 25, 1837.] [Footnote 523: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. V, p. 241.] [Footnote 524: See report of Second Auditor and Second Comptroller to Congress, December 3, 1849.] [Footnote 525: See report of Second Auditor and Second Comptroller to Congress, December 3, 1849.] [Footnote 526: November 17, 1851.] [Footnote 527: November 29, 1851.] [Footnote 528: 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 estimates 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 treaty of 1835, was refused to be complied with and their people forced to receive rations in kind at double the cost. 4. That the cost of the rations issued by the commandant at Fort Gibson to "indigent Cherokees" was improperly charged to the treaty fund, without legal authority. 5. That the United States was bound to reimburse the amount paid to some two or three hundred Cherokees who emigrated prior to 1835, but who were refused a participation in the "Old Settler" fund. 6. That the Cherokees who remained in the States of Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee were not entitled to any share in the per capita fund, inasmuch as they complied with neither of two conditions of their remaining East; and also because the census of those Cherokees was believed to be enormously exaggerated.