"the sum of $75,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be by the Secretary of the Interior distributed per capita, first among such freedmen and their descendants as are mentioned in the ninth article of the treaty of July 19th, 1866, between the United States and the Cherokee Nation of Indians”

http://blackandredjournal.blogspot.com/2012/01/this-week-in-indian-territory-january.html