Title

Agreement with the Cherokee, 1891

Original Signatory Tribe(s)

Cherokee

Successor in Interest Tribes

Under review

Date Original

19 December 1891

Subjects/Keywords

promise to pay

Description

the United States shall pay to the Cherokee Nation, at such time and in such manner as the Cherokee national council shall determine, the sum of eight million five hundred and ninety-five thousand seven hundred and thirty-six and twelve one-hundredth ($8,595,736.12) dollars in excess of the sum of seven hundred and twenty-eight thousand three hundred and eighty-nine and forty-six one-hundredth ($728,389.46) dollars, the aggregate of amounts heretofore appropriated by Congress and charged against the lands of the Cherokees west of the Arkansas River, and also in excess of the amount heretofore paid by the Osage Indians for their reservation. So long as the money or any part of it shall remain in the Treasury of the United States after this agreement shall have become effective, such sum so left in the Treasury of the United States shall bear interest at the rate of five per centum per annum, payable semiannually: Provided, That the United States may at any time pay to said Cherokee Nation the whole or any part of said sum and thereupon terminate the obligation of the United States in respect to so much thereof as shall be so paid and in respect to any further interest upon the same

Is Referenced By

27 Stat. 640

Treaty Type

agreement

Bibliographic Citation

52nd Cong., 1st sess., S. Ex. Doc. 56

Deloria, Vine, Jr. and Raymond DeMallie. Documents of American Indian Diplomacy: Treaties, Agreements, and Conventions, 1775-1979. 2v. (Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 348

Last updated in MODX

2023-10-27

MODX ID

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