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IU76 FIFTY—SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. Il. Ch. 832. 1901 0,S‘§g§f,;E,;‘§;€§1;(*§§$; EASTERN BAND or CHEROKEE INDIANS: For this amount, to he ¥‘SATl¤<;g1*§§’%§;· for expended under the d1rection of the Attorney-General for the purpose payg)gn& Ulmer CH; of carrying into edect six agreements of compromise in the suit of §Q,;{,‘p,g§§;“°“‘S "f the United States against William H. Thomas and others, entered into . between A. E. Holton, United States attorney, and George H. Smathers, special assistant to the United States attorney for the western district of North Carolina, representing the United States andthe defendants therein and hereinafter named; and an agreement in the two suits, respectively, of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians against William H. Thomas and others, and the United States against illiam H. Thomas and others, entered into between George H. Smathers, special assistant United States attorney, representing the United States and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, as evidenced by an act of the council of said Indians, bearing date December seventeenth, nineteen hundred, both suits pending in the circuit court of the United States for the western district of North Carolina, which agreements of compromise with said defendants and the agreement with said hand of Indians are on file in the Department of Justice, and are set forth in detail on pages four and five of a report made by George H. Smathers, special assistant United States attorney, to the Attorney- General, as to the status of this litigation, bearing date January twenty-second, nineteen hundred and one, to settle and quiet the title to certain tracts of land claimed by said Indians that were conveyed in a deed executed by William Johnston and others, to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs as trustee for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, bearing date August fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, known as the “Sibbald deed," and more fully set forth in said agreements of compromise, the sum of eight thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars, the names of the defendants and the amount to be paid to each under said agreements of compromise, and the amount to be "¥“Y“S d"’“g““°°d· paid to said band of Indians, being as follows: To W. N. Cooper, R. L. Cooper, and T. J. Cooper, executors of James IV. Cooper, deceased, under agreement of compromise, Exhibit Numbered One, two thousand dollars; to M. A. Hembree and others, defendants, in agreement of compromise, Exhibit Numbered Two, as follows: To M. A. Hembree, Murphy, Cherokee County, North Carolina, three hundred and twenty- tive dollars; to Thomas Dockery, Murphy, Cherokee County, North Carolina, five hundred dollars; to James Humphreys, Murphy, Cherokee County, North Carolina, three hundred dollars; to W. R. Graves, Murphy, Cherokee County, North Carolina, one hundred and twenty- five dollars; to John E. Graves, Murphy, Cherokee County, North Carolina, three hundred dollars; to John A. Dockery, Murphy, Cherokee County, North Carolina, thirty dollars; to N. E. Dockery, Murhy, Cherokee County, North Carolina, twenty-five dollars; to John E. Fricks, Murphy, Cherokee County, North Carolina, three hundred and twenty-five dollars; to A. G. Hunsucker, Murphy, Cherokee County, North Carolina, seventy-five dollars; to L. M. Hunsucker, Murphy, Cherokee County, North Carolina, one hundred and twenty- Eve dollars; to Henry P. McClure, Murphy, Cherokee County, North Carolina, forty dollars; to Irena Warlick, Murphy, Cherokee County, North Carolina, two hundred and fifty dollars; to W. F. Mauney and N. F. Cooper, Robbinsville, Graham County, No ·th Carolina, Exhibit Numbered Three, fifty dollars; to David Watkins and Joseph VVatkins, Bryson City, Swain County, North Carolina, Exhibit Numbered Four, two hundred dollars; to J. U. Whiteside, Bryson City, North Carolina, Exhibit Numbered Five, fifty dollars; to Charley Kirkland, Bryson City, North Carolina, Exhibit Numbered Six, fifty dollars; to Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Cherokee, Swain County, North Carolina, Exhibit Numbered Seven, four thousand dollars; total, eight thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars.