Excerpt from Senate Ex. doc. no. 246, 42nd Congress, 2nd Session(April 1872)

"   This claim grows out of the treaty made with the Creeks on the 24th of March, 1832.

  By that treaty 20 sections of land, to be selected by the President, were reserved "to the orphan children of the Creeks", and were directed to be "retained or sold for their benefit, as the President may direct." He did direct that they should be sold, and they were sold under the provisions of the act of March 3, 1837, and the proceeds, amounting to $108,713.82, invested in stocks. The third section of that act authorized the interest to be paid to the Creeks "in such amounts and in such manner" as in the opinion of the President would be most adventageous to them, and the principal, whenever the President should think proper.

This sum and it's interest have been reinvested, and now amount to a large sum, probably $275,000. This is exclusive of the payments that have been made, under the order of the President, two in number, one August 26, 1868, of $106, 434.12, and the other, July 1, 1870, of $24,291.63.   "

See also a letter from the Principal Chiefs of the Creek Nation to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, regarding the Creek Orphan fund.