Aug. 7, 1848.
(No. 21.)—A Resolution authorizing the proper accounting Officers of the Treasury to make a
just and fair Statement of the Claims of the Cherokee Nation of Indians, according
to the Principles established by the Treaty of August, eighteen hundred and forty-six.
A just and fair statement of the claims of the Cherokee nation of Indians to be made
according to the principles established by the treaty of August, 1846, between the
United States and said Indians.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America
in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized
and required to make a just and fair statement of the claims of the Cherokee nation
of Indians, according to the principles established by the treaty of August, eighteen
hundred and forty-six, between the United States and said Indians, and that they report
the same to the next session of Congress.
Approved, August 7, 1848.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Public Acts, IX, 30th Cong., 1st sess., George Minot, Statutes at Large 9, 339