7. That the sum of $103,000 had been charged upon the treaty fund for expenses of Cherokees in Georgia during three months they were all assembled and had reported themselves to General Scott as ready to take up their emigration march. 8. That interest should be paid on the balance found due them from April 15, 1851, until paid, Congress having no power to abrogate the stipulations of a treaty. 9. That $20,000 of the funds of the emigrant Cherokees were taken to pay the counsel and agents of the Old Settler party without authority.] [Footnote 529: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. IX, p. 264.] [Footnote 530: Commissioner of Indian Affairs to Secretary of Interior, February 10, 1874.] [Footnote 531: November 20, 1851.] [Footnote 532: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. X, p. 700.] [Footnote 533: The fourth section of this same act made provision that the eighth section of the act of July 31, 1854 (United States Statutes at Large, Vol. X, pp. 315), authorizing the payment of per capita allowance to Cherokees east of the Mississippi, be so amended as to authorize the payment of all such Cherokees as, being properly entitled, were omitted from the roll of D. W. Siler from any cause whatever.] [Footnote 534: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. XVIII, p. 447.] [Footnote 535: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. XV, p. 228.] [Footnote 536: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. XVI, p. 362.] [Footnote 537: This balance, amounting in the aggregate (with interest) to $7,242.76, was paid April 3, 1875.] [Footnote 538: United States Statutes at Large Vol. XVIII, p. 447.]