- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Letter], 1854 Jan. 18, Treasury Department to James W. Terrell, Quallatown, N[orth] C[arolina] / James Guthrie
- Creator:
- Guthrie, James, 1792-1869
- Date of Original:
- 1854-01-18
- Subject:
- Cherokee Indians--Claims
- Location:
- United States, North Carolina, 35.50069, -80.00032
- Medium:
- business letters
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- Letter dated January 18, 1854 from James Guthrie of the Treasury Department to James W. Terrell in Quallatown, N.C. concerning the appointment of Terrell for payment of annuities due to the North Carolina Cherokees under the act of July 29, 1848. Terrell is instructed about how to distribute payments and collect information. He is informed that $5500.00 should cover the total amount owed the Cherokees, only those Cherokees who were alive on July 29, 1851 are entitled to payment, and payment of the annuity ceases with the death of the individual. This document was originally bound with the following documents in the Southeastern Native American Documents Database: wtp080 wtp081 wtp082 wtp083.
Digital image of original manuscript, scanned by the University of Georgia Libraries in 2000, as part of GALILEO, funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. - Local Identifier:
- wtp084
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wtp084
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wtp084#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wtp084/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], William H. Thomas Papers, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia
- Extent:
- 4 pages/leaves
- Original Collection:
- Manuscript held by the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries, William H. Thomas Papers, box 01, folder 17, document 08.
- Holding Institution:
- Hargrett Library
- Rights:
-
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Treasury Department,
Jan. 18, 1854
James W. Terrell,
Quallatown, N.C.
Sir:
Your Bond, as the agent of this Department for paying the Cherokee Indians remaining in North Carolina, the annuities due them, under the act of Congress of
29 July, 1848, has been duly received & is approved.
I now transmit to you a statement prepared by the 2d [2nd] Auditor of the Treasury, showing the amounts due to said Indians enrolled under said act, from
29 July 1851, the time of the last payment, to the
29 July, 1853 (provided the said Indians were alive on the latter day) amounting in the aggregate to the sum of $6082.56. But as a number of said Indians must have deceased since the
29 of July 1851, and a few have been paid at this Department since the statement was prepared, I conclude that $5500 will be sufficient to meet the existing demands, and have instructed the Treasurer to remit to you that amount.
This amount will be checked to you on the Books of Treasury, and when the proper disbursements are made, which
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you are requested to make as diligently as may be, you will forward your accounts, including the statement now sent to the 1st Auditor of the Treasury for the settlement thereof.
You will observe that this statement comprehends only those Indians entitled to the annuity, who were alive on the
29th July 1851.
It has been decided that the annuity in every case, ceases with the decease of the Indian, and that the proper representation of such Indian, can receive only the annuity due up to the time of his death. In all such cases therefore you will make the compensation at the rate of $6.39 per [unclear text: ann ] from the
29th July 1851, to the day of the death of the Indian, & pay the representatives, the amount due according to such computation instead of the amount assumed to be due in the statement.
In all such cases of death, you will take the affidavit of competent person of the date of such death, and of the proper representatives of such Indian and will endorse the evidence with
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the no. of such Indian, as set forth in the statement, and transmit the same with your accounts.
you will take a receipt from each Indian or his representative (as the case may be) in the proper columns opposite his name and number. The names of the witnesses to the payment, and to the signature of the Indian, must be signed on the same line in the right column. For better information & description, you will ascertain from such Indian at the time of payment, his age, & insert it in the statement next to his name.
No part of the money directed to be sent is intended for your compensation, which agreeably to my letter of
October 25 last must be delayed till an appropriation is made in conformity with the estimate which has been submitted to Congress for that purpose
I am, very respectfully,
[Signed] James Guthrie, Sec'y [Secretary] of the Treas'y [Treasury]
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W H Thomas
11 [unclear text: Nov ] 185 [unclear text: 7 ]
North Carolina Cherokees
[unclear text: recd [received] ]
25 Nov 57
returned to Wm Thomas a printed argument addressed to [unclear text: Com ] of Indian affairs
Decr [December] 2/57