all the corn which his people eat. A specimen of his
workmanship in the way of a rifle may be seen at the Patent Office in Washington,
where it was deposited by Mr. Thomas; and I believe Salola is the first Indian who
' Syllepsis of the treaty, etc., in Royee, Cherokee Nation, Fifth Ann. Rep. Bureau of Ethnology,
pp. 300-313,1888; see also ante, ].. lis.
: Lanman, Letters from the Alleghany Mountains, pp. 94-95, 1849.
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ever manufactured an entire gun. But when it is remembered thai he nevei
a particle of education in any of the mechanic arts but is entirely self taught, his
attainments must be considered truly remarkable.'
On July 29, 1848, Congress approved an art for taking a census of
all those Cherokee who bad remained in North Carolinaafter the
Removal, and who still resided east of the Mississippi, in order that
their share of the "removal and subsistence fund' 1 under the New
Echota treaty might !><■ set aside for them. A sum equivalent to
s.v:. :',:'.' «^ at the same time appropriated for each one. or his repre
sentative, to be available for defraying the expenses of bis remoi a] to
the Cherokee Nation west and subsistence there for one year whenever
he should elect so to remove. Any surplus over such expense was tc
be paid to him in cash after his arrival in the west. The whole amount
thus expended was to be reimbursed to the Government from the gen-
eral fund to the credit of the Cherokee Nation under the terms of the
treaty of New Echota. In the meantime it was