The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-12-20

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render il expedient 10 enter into a comprouile
on reafonabie terms.
Under that impreiIion, plan is RESPECTFULLY
fubmitted to the confederation Of Cuucrefs,
which, although il does rot give 4 full indrirni-
ty, to every claimant, It is believed, from fiich
information rs has b-en received to give,
in the aggregate, nearly as much as ms
been paid in the whole, by ali the preisnt clai-
mants.
rs it is underaood and generally agreed,
that the five millions Of acres rcfcrvcd By the
agreement with Georgia, conittute the fund
from which the Indemnity is to be paid, i, is
of primary importance, in order to guard a.
gainit any depreciation, thatthe nominal fun in
money, which may be offered as an indemnity,
ihould nos exceed what the fund n,ay b.
thought amply fuficient TO dfchargc. The
probable amount of the arrual hcs, and TIE
price affixed to the land by Congress, furnih
the only data by which that FUN can be deter
mined. The commifioners have luDpo(cd
that the fales could not De reaConably eSjnated
TO yield more than two or ti,rte hundred thou
fand dollars, annually and although it has
been prei'.mcd that in opening a land Office,
thc price of the land viii, at prefent, I've Ak
ed at two dollars, per acre they have beiiev-
ed that 1t would be improrer 10 afhme the
payment of any fun ont of the proceeds of
the lands, which would bind Congrefs not
TO reduce the price hereafter, if other conf
dcrations ihall render that reduction rxpedi-
ert.
1t is after having conlidered the fnbie6 in
that point of view, that the commiliioners
have been induced TO fuhmit the follow
ing. proportions, as the BATS of compro-
mife.
If. That 70 much o. the five millions racrcs
as fiiall remain after having fatisfed the claims
OF iettlcrs and others, not recognized by the a
greement with Georgia, which ihail be confir-
med by tn United States be appropriated for
the purpofe of iatisfying and quictiug the
claims of the perfons who derive their claim
from an act of the fate of Georgia, pafltd on
the 9TH day OF January, 1895; for which pur-
pole the feveral companies, or claimants under
thote companies haii be permitted TO locate
the quantity of land allotted TO them, on any
part oft the territory they claim, to which the
Indian title has not yet been extinguilhed pro-
vided, however, that the whole ihail be loca-
ted m no more than fix tracts and provided al
10 that each tract thall extend the whole length
or breadth or the territory claimed by th- par
ties respectively, and ihal not have a greater
proportionate front on the rivers than the whole
territory thus claimed.
Cd. That the claimants NAV, nevertheless,
receive IN lieu OF fad lands, certificates bearing
intcreft from the lift January 1904, 10 the d.
mount OF 100000 dollars, or, at their opti-
on, certificates without intereit to the amount
of 100000 dollars which certificates nlall be
paid, (principal and interefl) out of the procefs
! of the iales of the public lands in the territory
| OF the United States, above mentioned, next
! entains the completion Of thcpaymcut OF 1850
600 dollars TO be made to the Rate of Georgia 1;
and flall ALTO be receivable in payment for the
land purchafed in the territory, as foon As the
payment to the fate ofGcorgia fhaIl have been
complicated.
Sd. That the lands or certificates llall be
apportioncd among the feveral companies in the
following manner that is to fay: the proporti-
on OF each company, exclufvcly of the tracts
which may have been furrendered ihal!, on eve
ry SEQ dollars or acres which ihalI be allowed as
the whole, be as followcth
Forthe Upper MifHfippi company cx.
cluively of citizens rights, S.
For the Tennellee, do. DO. GO
For the Georgia Minihippi, do. DO, i55
For the Georgia. do. do. not exceed
ing 2a5
rcitizens' rights not exceeding, z5
500
4th. That every original grant, deed or O.
Their evidence or claim, from which the compa-
mics or claimants derive, or pretend to derive,
their REFLECTIVE claims, ihalI be exhibited to the
iecretary of fate, within twelve month, and
there recorded. at the expence Of the parties
and, uneis thus recorded, fhall never after be
admitted or conidered as evidence in any OF
the courts of the United States.
5th. That after all the claims (laII have b-en
exhibited, the lands or certificates allotted TO
each company, ihalI he ar,~or+iops1 in ,,ro,,o,.