MADDEN, Judge.
This is an appeal from the Indian Claims Commission. The Commission decided that the claim prosecuted before it by the appellants was without merit, and dismissed it. The claim was for compensation for 14,160,000 acres of land which, the appellant contended, had been promised the Cherokee Indians during the negotiation of a treaty made between them and the United States in 1817, but which, by mistake, was not included in that treaty and was never thereafter...
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