This is what the treaty says on that point: Also to invest for them the sum of $250.000. at 5 per cent. per annum. the interesi to be regldarly paid ever to them per capita as annuity. the further sum of $250.000 shall be invested in like manner whenever the Seminoles now remaining in Florida shall have emigrated and joined their brethren in the West. whereupon the two sums so invested shall constitute a fund belonging to the united tribe of Seminoles. anti the interest on which. at the rate aforesaid. shan be anuaill paid ever to them per capita as ai annuity. but no portion of the principal thus invested or the interest thereon annually due and payable. shall ever be taken to pay claims or demands against said Indians. except such as may bereafter arise under the intercourse laws.
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