Cherokee Indians.

The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 6225) to re-imburse certain Cherokee Indians for transporting themselves from North Carolina to the Indian Territory, and subsisting themselves there for one year after their arrival, having considered the same, report:The .New Echota treaty, December 29, 1835, between the United States and the Cherokee Indians, and an act of Congress approved July 29, 1848, provided for the removal of the Cherokee Indians residing east of the Mississippi, to the Indian Territory, and their subsistence there for one year, and permitted such individual Indians as desired to remove and subsist themselves to do so, at the rate of $53.33 per capita, to be paid to them from a fund set apart for that purpose.This fund, by acts of Congress, March j, 1875, and August 16, 1876, was diverted from tb:is use and applied to the education, civilization, and improvement of the Cherokee~ remaining east.Before the ratification or these last-mentioned acts of Congress a, large number of these Indians had removed and subsisted themselves, in accordance with the terms of the said New Ecbota treaty, but have never received the sums of $53.33 to which they were individually entitled.Their claims and proofs are on file in the office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs,.and the appropriation provided in this bill bas been recommended by two Commissioners of Indian Affairs, H. Price and J. D. C. Atkins.(See Ex.Doc.208, Forty-eighth Congress, second session, and Ex.Doc.84, Forty-ninth Congress, first session, hereto appended.)The cQmmittee is of the opinion that the United States is bound by its treaty obligations to pay these claims, and inasmuch as the fund which was set apart for that purpose has heen.applied to other uses by Congress since these claimants removed and subsisted themselves, and without their consent, that the said claims should be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.But the committee is of the opinion that those Indians who still remain east and h•ave not availed themselves of the permission to remove themselves to Indian Territory, and taken the benefit of the new use to which the removal and subsistence fund was diverted by Congress should not now be allowed.to remove and subsist themselves at the expense of the United States.Wherefore the committee recommend that tbe bill be amended by striking out all after the word '' removal" in line 46 down to and including the word "Territory" in line 50, and that the bill so amended pass.

Récupéré en direct depuis OpenAlex et désinversé. Les résumés ne sont pas conservés dans cette base de données : les index inversés représentent 8,6 Go des 9,3 Go de texte de la base, et le serveur dispose de 13 Go libres.