United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/28th Congress/1st Session/Resolution 15
No. 15. A Resolution for the relief of certain claimants under the Cherokee treaty of one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Certificates issued or allowed by commissioners under Cherokee treaty, to be paid. That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to pay, or cause to be paid, the several sums found due to claimants under the Cherokee treaty of one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, upon the certificates issued by the board of commissioners appointed in pursuance of the seventeenth article of said treaty, out of the unexpended balance of appropriations made for the payment of such claims, upon the presentation of said certificates.
Approved, June 15, 1844.