These payments were made to the loyal refugees under this and similar acts of Congress. contained not only in the separate act referred to by the Senator from Massachusetts but in the annual appropriation bills from year to year. Therefore. under these acts the Government of the United States applied whatever annual payments were appropriated for to the Creek tribe. and having exhausted all those. it also applied the amounts specified in this report taken from the Creek orphan fund for the same purpose. that is. to support and sustain those loyal refugees who had been driven from their homes.
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