- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Letter] 1858 Jan. 20, Treasury Department [to] J[ames] W[harey] Terrell, Qualla Town [i.e., Quallatown], North Carolina / Howell Cobb
- Creator:
- Cobb, Howell, 1795-1864
- Publisher:
- Manuscript held by the Cherokee Museum, Cherokee, NC, William Holland Thomas, box 1.
- Date of Original:
- 1858-01-20
- Subject:
- Cherokee Indians--Government relations
Cherokee Indians--Claims - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, 35.50069, -80.00032
- Medium:
- business letters
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This document is a letter, dated January 20, 1858, from Howell Cobb, Secretary of the Treasury, to James W. Terrell. Cobb acknowledges that a prepared statement, containing the names of Cherokees still due compensation, is ready to be mailed to Terrell. He also outlines procedures for disbursing payments to the Cherokees and remits 4000 dollars to Terrell for that purpose.
Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Libraries in 2001, as part of GALILEO, funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. - Local Identifier:
- cm143
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_cm143
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_cm143#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_cm143/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], William Holland Thomas, Cherokee Museum, Cherokee, NC, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia
- Extent:
- 2 pages/leaves
- Holding Institution:
- Museum of the Cherokee Indian
- Rights:
-
Page: [1]
Treasury Department
Janry [January] 20 1858
Sir
A Statement in detail containing the names of the Cherokees of North Carolina and the sum due to each, has been fine-tuned by the Comptroller and transmitted to you, with a remittence of $4000 which with the $2,354.98 [added text: in your hands ] makes $6,354.98 -- a sum sufficient to make all the payments which will probably be required up to
29 July 1857
Where any Indian whose name is on the Statement has died, you may pay his Representative the pro rata amount due to the time of his death and no longer. In such cases you will take the affidavits of competent witnesses of the date of [illegible text] decease, and of the proper representative of the defunct, mark the same with the no [number] of the Indian on the Statement, and transmit such evidence with your accounts.
Page: [2]
When you make any payment on their statement you will take a receipt in the proper column opposite the name and number of the Indian and cause the witnesses to the payment and the signature of the receipt to sign in the proper places.
At the time of paying each Indian you will ascertain from him his age and insert it [unclear text: neat ] his name in the statement.
you will of course return this statement with the necessary evidence of the payments you have made, as soon as practicable.
Very respectfully your obed Ser [obedient Servant]
[Signed] Howell Cobb Secretary of Treasy [Treasury]
J. [James] W. Terrell Qualla town North Carolina